Examining the Civil Society Organisations Support as a Requisite for Desirable Administrative Reform Outcomes: Evidence from Nigerian Power Industry
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Date
2021
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Journal of Administrative Science
Abstract
dministrative reform has long been recognised as an integral part of public sector management aimed
at improving the service delivery capacity of public sector organisation. Reform initiative had been
conducted by the successive government from post-independent until this contemporary period. However,
these giants' strides made by the government in Nigeria to repositioning the power industry have often
been disappointing. That is, no considerable progress achieved; the reform has overtime produced
undesirable outcomes. Put simply, there exists a big gap between reform expectation and the actual
outcome. Thus, this study investigates the influence of civil society organisation support to reform
initiative as requisite for positive outcomes. The paper adopted a survey research method; a cross-section
approach and a purposive sampling technique. In all, 463 closed-ended questionnaires were distributed
to electricity subscribers and 401 returned. WarpPLS "structural equation model" software tools of
analysis suitable for nonlinear data were employed to analyse the data obtained. The study found an
absence of synergy between civil society and government which is critical to purposeful and desirable
reform outcomes, and when absence the reform is unlikely to the successful. Therefore, the study
recommends active participation of civil society organisation as key stakeholders in the reform process to
facilitates result-driven administrative reform outcome.