TOPIC 4.1: Responsive Government

Stewart (2009)^[1] explores the value conflicts between strategy formation and public management. She distinguishes between policy, organisational and managerial strategy as follows:

• policy strategy – the agency delivering on the government agenda
• organisational strategy – the agency position relative to the needs of stakeholders
• managerial strategy as the deployment of resources.

A dynamic tension exists within the system of government between policy (serving the minister), organisational (serving the stakeholders) and managerial strategy (allocating resources).