DEPARTMENT:BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CLASS:ND1 N | [ASSIGNMENT:BRIEFLY EXAMINE THE CHRACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND ITS PRIMARY OBJECTIVES REGARDING ITS ADMINISTRATIVE RELEVANCE.] CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DEFINITION: Public Administration is a multi-dimensional discipline‚ defined by different authors and scholars‚ according to their understanding. It is viewed by each author in relation to his political environment. It is pertinent to know what public administration
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. PRODUCTIVITY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION The issue of productivity management sometimes referred to as performance management is an area of great concern to public mangers. There are several strategies that can be used in public management but the selection and use of the most suitable one depends on the situation and the manager involved. Managers in the public sector are usually confronted with complex problems that require strategy thinking in order to find the most suitable way forward
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Studying the Models of Public Administration MODELS OF COMPARITIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONINTRODUCTION Before going to the models‚ it is important to understand the different terminologies used in the subject: 1. APPROACH: An Approach is based primarily on one central concept. That is thought to be especially useful in studying basic features of public administration. Approaches are general in nature. 2. MODELS: Models can be considered as a refined and more specific version of approaches
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Ethics plays different rolls in public administration based upon the type of administration. After all‚ an administration is a business and it has to make money to survive. If businesses in public administration based the ethics of each individual employee‚ then the administration would fail. For example‚ a state employee dealing with welfare for a citizen feels that the citizen should get more money than authorized by the state; by allowing this for one it would only be ethical to do for everyone
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Acknowledgements This report is only possible with the sincere dedication of our group members and Dr. WasonLueangpapat‚ Public Administration Professor. For the members‚ their contributions and hard work has been the chance to fulfill their part of the distributed duty in Public Administration of Malaysia. As researchers and editors‚ we especially want to acknowledge the Comparative Public Administration lecturer‚ Ajarn. Dr. WasonLueangpapat‚ to his friendly contributed lectures and every example that he has
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Transparency in Public Administration in India Siddharth Singh The demand for transparency in the functioning of government agencies is a popular and democratic reaction to the arbitrariness and secrecy that surround the working of most government offices. Traditionally‚ a citizen aggrieved by the decision of a government servant either approaches a senior controlling officer of the civil servant or a public representative to get a redress of his grievance. If the latter shows indifference or fails
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NATURE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION There are two divergent views regarding the nature of the Public administration. These views are following ·Integral View. According to this view‚ Public administration is a sum total of all the activities undertaken in pursuit of and in fulfillment of public policy. These activities include not only managerial and technical but also manual and clerical. Thus the activities of all persons from top to bottom constitute administration although they are of varying
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| Approaches to Public Administration | | | Reuby Benson | 3/18/2012 | | There are different approaches to running a government. There are those that believe that the government should be run like a private business. Then there are those that believe in representativeness and the separation of powers that rest in the government to properly operate the government. There are also those who believe that the government should adhere to the strictest letter of the law. I look to describe
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Public Administration & Ethics In public administration‚ decisions are a lot of times made based upon ethical principles‚ which are the perception of what the general public would agree is correct. This helps keep the administrators ethical because they first must ask themselves if they will be under public scrutiny if they don’t make an ethical decision. Ethics has also placed additional burden on public administrators regarding how they handle their personal lives. When a person enters
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY – Vol. I - Development of African Administration: Pre-Colonial Times and since - Emizet F. Kisangani DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN ADMINISTRATION: PRECOLONIAL TIMES AND SINCE Emizet F. Kisangani Kansas State University‚ Manhattan‚ Kansas‚ USA Keywords: ancient‚ civilization‚ colonization‚ development‚ administration‚ corruption‚ administrative reform. Contents U SA NE M SC PL O E – C EO H AP LS TE S R S 1. The Pre-colonial Period: From the
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