The Use of Strategic Management in the Public （战略管理在公共的使用）.pdf

The Use of Strategic Management in the Public Sector Organizations in Tanzania: A survey of four Executive Agencies. Paper to be Presented at the EGPA Conference on ‘ Public Service :Delivery in the Information Age’ at Saint Julian’s Malta, 2-5 September 2009 By Andrew S. Sulle (PhD Candidate) Catholic University of Leuven , Public Management Institute E- mail Sullea@yahoo.co.uk 1.0 Background Note. This paper focuses on the use of strategic management in four executive agencies in Tanzania. In order to fully grasp the strategic management issues in the agencies studied, we also examined, albeit in a nutshell, the extent to which their parent ministries do use strategic management, through which agencies’ strategic management is mirrored. Strategic management is now a government- wide reform initiative in Tanzania. In the 1990s, after a considerable period of socio-economic reforms (which started in 1986), the government of Tanzania launched an expansive public sector reform including the introduction of a strategic management approach that requires all public organizations to adopt strategic management in their management system. In line with this new policy requirement, all public organizations are expected to develop long term vision, strategic objectives and establish the level of resources required to accomplish the identified performance objectives. The basic idea behind this reform was, first and foremost, to align public service provision with the related financial implications. To that effect public organizations are required to indicate what they are doing, how they are doing it and with what financial implicati