1Department of Management and Public Administration, Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2Department of Political Science, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine
3Department of Public Administration and Business Management, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine
4Department of Finance Management and Business, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, Lviv
5Department of Public Administration, Interregional Academy of Personnel Managenent, Lviv, Ukraine
*Corresponding author: scientistua@ukr.net (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2807-1957)
Online published on 15 July, 2024.
The relevance of the research problem is determined both by the theoretical significance of the study of managerial aspects of organizational changes in public administration organizations, and by the practical tasks of improving the mechanism for their implementation. Based on the evolutionary method, the existing theoretical and practical approaches to change management offered by the management theory are described, and the prospects for their application in the field of public administration are assessed. Agile paradigm is presented as an underlying one for addressing challenges of VUCA-world with regard to public administration.
• The article is devoted to the analysis of approaches and vision of change management and change implementation in public administration sector based on NPM paradigm.
• The results demonstrated the necessity of Agile approach application, which would enable flexibility, multifacedness, and integration, needed for successful public administration in VUCA-world.
• The practical significance of the study is that, building theoretical connections and conducting more in-depth empirical and comparative investigations on change processes, it suggests an agenda for the study of change management in public organizations that emphasizes its multifaceted nature.
Change Management, Public Administration, Public Service Organizations, NPM, Agile
