Private Sector Lessons for Public Sector Reform in Indonesia

McLeod, Ross H.

doi:10.22459/ag.13.03.2006.09

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“…He goes on to identify 'distorted performance incentives' and personnel arrangements that are 'wasteful and unnecessary'. Mardiasmo, Barnes and Sakurai (2008: 18), while taking a less strident approach, nevertheless observe that 'human resource management policies and practices do not supply regional governments with the human resources they need for improved performance '. McLeod (2006) advocates the adoption of private sector HRM practices to overcome the 'demonstrably poor' performance of the public sector.…”

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Human resource management: the forgotten dimension of decentralisation in Indonesia

Turner

Imbaruddin

Sutiyono

2009

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies

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Indonesia has introduced radical decentralisation measures, transferring many functions and much finance to democratically elected sub-national governments. However, human resource management (HRM) has largely been overlooked. Using data obtained from central personnel agencies and nine sub-national governments, this article examines the major elements of HRM at sub-national level: recruitment and selection; promotion and advancement; training and development; remuneration; and performance management. The structure and operation of these elements are compared with those advocated in Strategic HRM, the dominant paradigm of contemporary HRM. The findings are that a centralised, bureaucratised system of HRM remains in place in Indonesia, with many practices retained from the pre-decentralisation period. The HRM system is only minimally linked to strategic concerns and organisational goal achievement. Reforms are essential, but an incremental approach is recommended, keeping the basic framework centralised but creating incentives for reform by making local governments more accountable for personnel costs and performance.

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Human resource management: the forgotten dimension of decentralisation in Indonesia

Turner

Imbaruddin

Sutiyono

2009

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies

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“…Although the Ministry of Finance introduced private sector style human resource management into its ministry to cope with the situation, other central government departments and local administrations continue to use the system inherited from the Suharto era (McLeod and Harun, 2009). This old system defines the structure of the government bureaucracy rigidly and in a manner similar to the armed forces (McLeod, 2006). As a consequence, it limits the capacity of the bureaucracy to be flexible in order to improve efficiency.…”

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Implementation and challenges of introducing NPM and accrual accounting in Indonesian local government

Harun¹,

Kahar

2013

Public Money & Management

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“…As a consequence, corruption is deeply engrained in the bureaucracy, and since performance was not the dominant promotion criterion, civil service lacks competence and skills. Thus, civil sector reform is indispensable for eradicating corruption and promoting prudent economic policy formulation and implementation (McLeod , ).…”

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Corruption in Southeast Asia: a survey of recent research

Kis‐Katos

Schulze

2013

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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This paper surveys the empirical literature on corruption in Southeast Asia with a focus on the methodological approach that the contributions take to identify the extent, determinants, and consequences of corruption and the remedies against it. We present the major topics that empirical corruption research has focused on and point out the methodological challenges that this line of research has to address. We discuss the empirical corruption studies on Southeast Asia and describe the empirical approach that they have taken.

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Private Sector Lessons for Public Sector Reform in Indonesia

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Human resource management: the forgotten dimension of decentralisation in Indonesia

Human resource management: the forgotten dimension of decentralisation in Indonesia

Implementation and challenges of introducing NPM and accrual accounting in Indonesian local government

Corruption in Southeast Asia: a survey of recent research

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