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Public Adminstration

Public administration involves goal-oriented cooperative group activities carried out through formal organizations and hierarchies. It is a process that includes planning, organizing, budgeting, directing, coordinating, and controlling. Public administration can be viewed as an academic discipline, a profession, and an art. As a discipline, it applies laws and policies systematically. As a profession, it relies on specialized knowledge. As an art, it achieves practical goals through both science and deeds. The scope of public administration encompasses all government operations and the processes used to administer policies, personnel, finances, and regulations.

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Public Adminstration

Public administration involves goal-oriented cooperative group activities carried out through formal organizations and hierarchies. It is a process that includes planning, organizing, budgeting, directing, coordinating, and controlling. Public administration can be viewed as an academic discipline, a profession, and an art. As a discipline, it applies laws and policies systematically. As a profession, it relies on specialized knowledge. As an art, it achieves practical goals through both science and deeds. The scope of public administration encompasses all government operations and the processes used to administer policies, personnel, finances, and regulations.

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INTRODUCTION TO

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
WHAT IS
ADMINISTRATION?
• Administration is a goal-oriented, a purposive
and cooperative group effort to accomplish
some common goal or goals.
• For instance, two men cooperate to roll a stone
to built a house.
 Administration excludes non-purposive and
non-cooperative group activities such as a man
watching a stone.
 Administrative activity is as old as organized
social life. It is a universal process which is
carried on in a variety of public and private
organizations
ELEMENTS OF ADMINISTRATION
A group activity
Influence and cooperation
Purpose(s)
Material and human sources (tools, people, money
etc.)
FEATURES OF
ADMINISTRATION
It is a process consists of planning,
organizing, budgeting, directing
(steering), coordinating and
controlling.
Administration is occurred in formal
organization in the form of
hierarchy (arrangement of items –
objects, names, values, positions etc.
in which the items are represented as
being above-below, superior-
subordinate)
Ordered and coherent activities.
THREE EXPLANATIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
1. Public administration as an academic discipline, a
science
2. Public administration as a profession
3. Public administration as an art
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS AN ACADEMIC
DISCIPLINE
WHAT DID WILSON SAY?-POLITICS-
ADMINISTRATION DICHOTOMY
The field of administration is a field of business. It is
removed from the hurry and strife of politics; it at
most points stands apart even from the debatable
ground of constitutional study.
Administrative questions are not political questions.
Public administration is detailed and systematic
application of law. Every particular application of law
is an act of administration.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS A PROFESSION
The word profession means an occupation that includes a
systematic knowledge or theory.
Main elements of a profession is knowledge and
competency.
Universities and professional schools have played a vital
role for public administration to become a profession.
People get the necessary knowledge in universities to
become a civil servant, socializing with professional norms
and in one sense improve a professional identity.
Specialists of public administration use these
professional information to serve citizens in an impartial
and competent manner.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS AN ART
Public administration is an art of getting things done,
as well.
Administration as an art, consists of deeds and acts
with a practical end.
Like all arts, it must be based on science, that is a
knowledge of all that will make for good
administration.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS AN ART
For example, a painter, to be a
greater artist must know the
laws of composition, of the
harmony of colors and of
perspective.
So the successful administrator
must possess knowledge of
political economy, some
knowledge of psychology, of
general principles of
government.
SCOPE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS AN
ACTIVITY
Traditionally, the scope of public administration is
restricted only to the executive branch.
In this sense, public administration covers primarily
the organization, personnel, practices and procedures
essential to effective performance of the executive
branch of government.
Public administration is an instrument of government
for carrying on its activities. It includes all operations
of government ranging from the social care to
sweeping the streets.
SCOPE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS A
DISCIPLINE
Administrative functions/Processes of administration
POSDCORB (Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Direction,
Coordinating, Reporting, Budgeting
Substantive concerns (matters of administration) such as
defense, health care, education, social security and welfare,
police, fire protection, agriculture, industry and so on.
Public personnel administration
Public financial administration
Comparative public administration
Public policy (the process of policy-making, the contents of
policy, its implementation and the policy outputs.
ELEMENTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

People

Public Organisa
Servants tion

PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION

Public Public
Finance Policy

Law and
Regulatio
ns

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