Emerging Trends within the Public Sector in Flanders: Towards a Self-organising Centre of Government
Journal Title: Journal of Emerging Trends in Marketing and Management - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Changes in the socio-economic environment of the public sector challenge their internal management. Increasingly, organisations perform their managerial tasks in a result- oriented way, often by introducing private sector managerial techniques. More and more, innovative management techniques and mechanisms are explored, whether on a small project based scale or on a larger scale. So there is the rise of “new” policy instruments and the way administrations organize themselves. In this paper, we examine the way the Flemish Department of Public Governance and the Chancellery is dealing with its new role as centre of government. Such a centers of governments are gaining importance in a complex political scenery confronted with wicked issues within a changing societal context. Besides its positioning within the societal context, there is also a major internal shift within the department. Inspired by innovative management techniques, a transition is going on from a rather classical hierarchical structure to a network governance structure constituted by a set of self-organizing teams. From one day to another, all the hierarchy was removed within the departement. From 2015 on, the departement is organised as an self-steering network organisation. In the paper, we present the changing positioning of the department and the way the internal transition is initiated and implemented further. Although the transition is initiated foremost in order to meet the requirements of a centre of government, we focus on the way the management of the departement as such. Besides, in the empirical part of the paper, we also use the data of a survey within the organisation dealing with the support of the transition and the new working principles. We also reflect on the way the theoretical ideas of self-organization are reflected in the management of the department.
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Dries Verlet
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