Abstract:
Public sector organizations have been significantly changed during the last few years because of
the increasing environmental pressures, changes in community expectations of public sector
organizations, political influence in their management and an increasing demand by governments
for accountability. As a result, public sector entities have been forced to consider new
management practices in order to provide more effective, efficient and economical public
services, a trend which has been conceptualized under an umbrella of New Public Management
(NPM). There are certain factors such as time needed, leader support, environment stability and
continuation, resources needed and organizational culture that affect the effective adoption and
implementation of the NPM or reforms. In this study three models have been used to explore the
relationship among variables of performance measurement of reforms through hypotheses testing
using correlation and regression analysis. The results show that time needed, leadership support
and organizational culture have positive relationship with perceived benefits of PM whereas,
goal clarity has negative relationship with perceived benefits of PM.
