APPLICATION OF INCLUSIVENESS OF NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC SERVICE

New Public Management (NPM) is seen as a summary description of a way of reorganising public sector bodies to bring their management; reporting; and accounting approaches closer to a particular awareness of business methods. As a principle, the new public management refers to the failures and inadequacies of public sector performance over time, and locates the problem as lying in the nature and processes of public sector activity and public administration. Centralised bureaucracies, waste and inefficiency in resource use and inadequate meclwnisms of accountability are all problems which the new public management sought to tackle. Inclusive models of new public management entail government executive power reconfigurations that invariably change the landscape and conduct of national administration and policy implementation. This paper examines the dynamics of new public management under the inclusive government of Nigeria, particularly interrogating the environmental contexts, the structure of government bureaucracy; the distribution of executive powers, cabinet decision making, and working relations within co-shared ministries as well as institutional capacity for policy implementation and monitoring. Research findings indicate that while the macro environmental contexts have substantially stabilized the major frontiers of new public management are in a frail slate, choked by a top heavy government bureaucracy, inter-party bureaucratic politics and patronage, weak fiscal resource base and lack of collective will at the levels of decision making and policy implementation. The paper conclude that practical scenarios underline the need to institutionalize a culture of complying with the fundamentals of nexv public management such that formal structures of authority need to be empowered against informal structures and recommend that best practices of inclusiveness, transparency, accountability, merit, national focus and political neutrality should inform and guide the practice of new public management within the three arms of government.