THE MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE IN WHITEHALL: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FMI |
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| Authors: | ANDREW GRAY BILL JENKINS REW FLYNN BRIAN RUTHERFORD |
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| Affiliation: | Andrew Gray, Bill Jenkins and Brian Rutherford are at the University of Kent at Canterbury;Andrew Flynn is now Research Associate, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London. |
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| Abstract: | The Conservative government announced the Financial Management Initiative in 1982. This article is based on research into the genesis, development and impact of the FMI. The findings suggest that the FMI has contributed significantly to the institutionalization of resource management in general and cost awareness in particular. Implementation has been influenced, however, by the differentiation of departmental tasks and contexts, the inevitable tension between management and politics, and the difficulty of meeting the conditions for the successful engineering of cultural change. |
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