Explain Why The Government Should Not Operate Like A Business

1. Although Wilson argues that the government should not operate like a business, there are advantages of trying to run the government more like a business. Businesses can lawfully retain and devote to the private benefit of their workers the earnings of the organization, can allocate the factors of production in accordance with the heads of the organization, and serve goals of the organizations choosing. Businesses regulate details of its employees’ behavior by a complex and all-encompassing set of rules. There are detailed rules, sometimes scripted in long and detailed manuals, describing how an employee should behave and act at all times and when a particular situation rises. Business management also focuses on the “bottom line”, meaning profits, which encourages employees to work to meet certain quotas. Businesses,
Goals are also clearer in a business, and businesses can acquire capital by retaining earnings or selling shares of ownership. Businesses can also fire, hire, promote, or demote workers with “considerable not perfect freedom”, while in the bureaucracy members cannot be fired because of the merit system. A business also purchases goods and services by internally defined procedures and to choose to directly negotiate when wanted, while a government agency must purchase much of what it uses through formally advertising for bids, accepting the lowest, and keeping in close contact with the vendor. When a business develops a reliable relationship with a contractor, it can use this particular vendor repeatedly without looking for a new one, while when a bureaucratic agency has a satisfactory relationship with a contractor, it cannot use the vendor again without starting a new project with new bids. A business can also close or combine offices or factories when they are not of great economic use anymore, while when a government agency wishes to shut down a local office it must get permission of the