Recovering Failing local authorities- Is There a Need for Turnaround Management Strategies?

Abstract

This paper deals with Turnaround Management Strategies in failing local authorities. The paper suggests that while the New Public Management reform resulted in some achievements, some public organizations are persistently failing. Although there is no clear-cut distinction between failing and good performing public organizations, the paper points out some of their characteristics. The Paper analyzes the efforts to recover English local authorities made by the Audit Commission. These efforts included persistent measurement, inspection, and supervision directed toward local authorities ’ performance improvement. The paper concludes that despite the efforts the success was partial due to two main reasons: first, the lack of experience and grounded knowledge and second, the use of inappropriate strategies. The paper suggests that in order to recover an organization there is need to implement unique and distinguish strategies named Turnaround Management Strategies. In order to gain grounded information for this study, qualitative data was collected. In addition to documents that were analyzed, four face-to-face interviews were conducted with local authorities ’ leaders, who were deeply involved in successful recoveries.

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