Economic Affairs
  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 68
  • Issue: 4

Change management and implementation of changes in the field of public administration

  • Author:
  • Yuliia Voronina1,*, Oksana Bashtannyk2, Hanna Komarnytska3, Roman Saevich4, Natalia Paterukha4, Pavlo Parubchak5
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Published Online: Jul 15, 2024
  • Page Number: 2207 to 2220

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.

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Change Management, Public Administration, Public Service Organizations, NPM, Agile