Influence of New Public Management of Government Assessment: Indicator Problem and Real Benefits

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Kosin Techaniyom
Chalermchai Kittisaknawin
Sirikhun Phanrangsee

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Influence of new public management of government assessment: metric problem and real benefits although new public management idea has initiated since 1990, and it is still criticizing. NPM has influenced to government around the world, including Thailand, there are some NPM restructuring in Thai government public management from past to present. The main objectives of these research are 1) To review basic principle of NPM concept and 2) To analyze problems which have affected Thai government from using NPM concept. The research had shown that there are 3 phenomenal results which Thai government has applied public management structure by following NPM concept, such as 1) influence of NPM concept has affected government structure, 2) influence of NPM concept has affected operation of government objective, 3) influence of NPM concept has affected assessment of government operations.

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