Public Management Reforms in Nigeria: The Application of Managerialism and Its Limitations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The contention of this paper is the indispensability of administrative reforms. It contends with the fact that the need to position public administration for sustainable national development gives credence to the renewed global agitations for public sector reforms. Most country’s attempt at public sector reforms however, seem to draw on the experience of the private sector – Nigeria not been an exception. The objective of the paper therefore is to look at reforms generally and the need for reforms by organizations. The paper then looks at managerialism and its applicability in Nigeria’s public sector. The methodology used is the narrative approach which involves the use of secondary data primarily. It was revealed that various public sector reforms have been embarked upon in Nigeria before now and the reforms have in many ways contributed to a more efficient public sector in Nigeria. It was also revealed that managerialism depends on the will, commitment and strength of the political leadership; the support and the understanding of the general populace. It is therefore recommends among others, that cognizance be taken of the continuous need for the restructuring of the public sector and the general populace must be carried along.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.020 | 0.033 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".