The purpose of this paper is to show how New Public Management, by incorporating tools and views from the private sector, makes room for a larger role for production engineers in the government. The Introduction presents the historical context of public management evaluation since the emergence of patrimonialist model, through the bureaucratic and managerialism models, to the rise of New Public Management. The historical context of the development of Production Engineering is also presented. The search for interfaces between these two fields of knowledge arises from a theoretical investigation in which we try to understand which management practices were associated, simultaneously, with elements of Production Engineering and New Public Management. The results of this investigation reveal that this interface affects all elements of New Public Management and all sub-areas of Production Engineering.
New Public Management; Production engineering; Managerial reform; Public sector; Government
