Leadership Challenges in a Small Society: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract

The debate on New Public Management (NPM) reform is still relevant and opposing views as to whether it is a passing “fad” as well as whether it is a serious paradigm in the making is still ongoing. The comparative experiences of countries have also been explored in a number of works (McLaughlin, Osborne and Ferlie; Christensen and Laegreid). However, much of the literature on NPM reforms has focused on the broader goals of these reforms rather than on the reform mechanisms themselves. In this paper, I am going to focus on one specific issue of reform, namely, leadership transformation in the public sector of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.