Explain if the agency the team selected follows a traditional or new public management approach, or a combination of each.

The selected Agency : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Efforts to reform the public administration are as old as the administration itself, but the breadth and depth of the reforms carried out in recent decades have been exceptional. These contemporary reforms are generally grouped together under the expression "new public management" (NMP), used to describe a set of changes in the field of the public sector dating back to late 1980s. 1970s. Although this expression masks large internal variations, the different conceptions of NPM all have in common elements that form the ideology of good public sector management. Perhaps the most shared element is the importance given to management within the public sector, and no longer to its administration, traditionally emphasized.

Moreover, in NPM much of the responsibility for the results of public management, and for good administration in general, rests with managers rather than political leaders. The NMP also considers that the best way to govern well is to give substantial autonomy to these managers. In short, USCIS has seen many reforms. Does it follow a traditional or new public management approach, or a combination of the two? The answer is clear, considering recent reforms to immigration laws in the United States. I have to say that USCIS tracks both.

After the first decrees signed by President Joe Biden on immigration to allow the legalization of undocumented migrants, improve the reception of refugees or lift the ban on entering the United States for nationals of several predominantly Muslim countries. And at the same time, in a more specific context, USCIS uses traditional public management in the recruitment and management of its human and material resources.