MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY FIRMS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF SERVICES IN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH EAST NIGERIA (2009-2016)

📄 Project Abstract

In the wake of the global financial crisis, governments have been searching for effective ways to increase efficiency within their operations, and one policy has emerged in response: a state that rolls back its powers to allow room for markets to respond (McCann, 2013). Governments throughout the world are striving to achieve great feats with less resources, attempting to allow for more market-based reforms and sometimes to cope with higher budgetary constraints. The attempts to modernize and gain value for money have led to a greater focus on private-sector management practices, resource frugality, and increased emphasis on performance management and output (Lapsley, 2009). Public institutions and business organizations are in a constant flux. Whether the catalyst is provided by tightening environmental regulations, emerging IT innovations, stagnating profits, a decreasing market share, or any other contemporary or classic business interruption; organizations keep changing. It is this...