In this chapter try assumes what are the challenges of public administration Sri Lankan context. Sri Lanka ruled by western powers for three and a half years. From sixteenth century some of the coastal areas of the country were ruled by the Portuguese, Dutch and British. In 1948 Sri Lanka (Ceylon) get independent from Britain. Compare with other south Asian countries. Sri Lanka have been achieved some developments in public administration. In fact the administrative system influenced by British rulers and it has been developed over the independent. In 1972, Sri Lanka introduced the first native and indigenous Constitution named first republic constitution and by 1978, second republic constitution was introduced. In 1977, Sri Lanka shifted to …show more content…
• Training staff to more effectively respond to the new environment and thereby realize their potential. • Redeployment of surplus staff, if any, to new functions within government or to new opportunities in the private sector (Jayawardena 1997: 88-89 cited in Samaratunge and Bennington 2002: 95). However, since 1977, Sri Lanka also has been adapted some NPM reformations. But, those reforms were not fully successful. At that time, country faced many of challenges regarding NPM reforms. As, Samaratunge and Bennington, high degree of politicization of the bureaucracy, the lack of coordination between levels of government, and the bureaucratic domination of the system, may not bode well for NPM measures (Samaratunge and Bennington 2002: 96). Therefore implementation of NPM reforms did not reach to the apex position. As Samaratunge, Alam and Teicher writes: Accordingly, selected elements of NPM have been introduced in the country to a noticeable degree, including cost-cutting, transparency, government business enterprises, decentralization, employment contracts, privatization and an emphasis on performance targets, indicators and output objectives (Samaratunge, Alam and Teicher 2008: …show more content…
However, the challenges of public administration regarding ICT are debatable in the modern time. Some people are ignoring the ICT without any reason. Specially, people who are working in the administrative level in Sri Lanka with traditional values and attitudes and lack of awareness on ICT, they used to refuse the advantages coming from ICT. So, the main challenge is how to mobilize them towards a more efficient and efficacy Avenue of
1. Why do you think the autocratic approach worked effectively for four years in this situation?
Training and development is essential to employee’s retention, loyalty and overall satisfaction. When employees feel there is opportunity within a company and diversity leading the way employees pride and productivity is enhanced.
... also pay more attention in improving his or her members’ personal development to ensure that they are always able to comply with the changeable environment.
This method also empowered the employees giving them an opportunity to increase their skill levels and an opportuni...
Wilson described public administration as “the most obvious part of the government; it is government in action; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself.” Furthermore, public administration is efficient and detailed implementation of public law. Every particular application of general law is a demonstration of administration.
...mplications that allow for opportunities of change. One of the presumptions is for training and staffing (Shi & Singh, 2012). With the utilization of health care improvements, the staff will need additional instructions on the performance of equipment and how to efficiently achieve the desired results. Managers or supervisors recognize the need for supplemental staffing and training to optimize patient satisfaction and quality of care. The health care administrator must also focus on changes in insurance policies and rules governing the provision of medical assistance (Shi & Singh, 2012).
Agerberg (2014) states that mixing social work with economic and industrial logic has led to fragmentation, micromanagement and over reporting. Van Berkel and Knies (2016) mean that NPM as a concept is defined by a rather vague term that covers a number of ways to manage for results. According to Model (2005), NPM has its origin in a common belief that public organizations are less effective compared with the growing number of private entrepreneurs contracted in the public sector. NPM focus on economic indicators, which means a very limited focus on improved results for those who applied for support and help from the social services (Modell, 2005). Oh, and Blanchard Bush (2015) states that managing for results has led to an attempt to capture the citizens´ perception through the use of purely factual information and quantitative variables.
In the future I would like to see myself, as a continuously promoted public official who could possibly become a pro-active politician in today’s demanding political arena. To achieve this, I would like to gain more knowledge which can help me reach intellectual maturity to the latest practices adopted in the field of Public Administration. My desire for self-development in this area and curiosity to learn past and contemporary developments in different societies will help me to solve the problems easily.
Public Administration involves the development, implementation and management of policies for the attainment of set goals and objectives that will be to the benefit of the general public. Since Public Administration involves taking decisions that affect the use of public resources there is often the question of how to utilize public resources for maximum public good. The National Association of Public Administration has identified four pillars of public administration: economy, efficiency, effectiveness and social equity. These pillars are equally important in the practice of public administration and to its success. This paper seeks to explain the role of each of the pillars in the practice of public administration.
Over time, how have members of the field of public administration examined the subject of policy and administration (has the dichotomy changed)?
The New Public Management is not a simplistic Big Answer, but rather, it is a normative reconceptualization of public administration consisting of several interrelated components, which creates innovative bureaucracies that provide better services . This essay shall be against the notion that public sector should run like a business, by discussing the origin of the New Public Management (NPM) in relation to globalization and the Cold War, while also depicting its negative implications on anonymity and accountability which are essential to the running of the Public Sector due to ministerial responsibility. To conclude, a future description of NPM on Canada shall be given in order to affirm my stance.
Max Weber, Henri Fayol and Luther Halsey Gulick all addressed issues, concerning how an overall organization should be structured, bureaucratic administration, while Frederick Taylor’s theory of scientific management concentrated on techniques for increasing production (Tomkins, 2005). This essay will focus on the disadvantages and the advantages, including the effective and efficient components, of bureaucracy in public management.
According to Villanueva (2013 internet source)Public administration involves government officials or public officials that apply particular policy and approaches inside a specific sphere or level of government, normally in the local level of government. Public administrators must ensure and promise that all facets of a particular policy or approach in a state are fulfilled and applied in the correct way.
Public personnel administration consists of three general systems. The first one I’ll talk about is civil service. The civil service helps to protect employee rights and safeguard efficiency. Historically, personnel administration shifted from emphasizing the value of responsiveness to emphasizing political neutral competence among public employees. Before they would use the spoils system and the patronage system, which selected employees and awarded government contracts based on loyalty or party affiliation. In this present day, we are using more of the civil service system, which is a method of choosing employees based on certain formal qualifications such as competitive exams instead of political patronage. It all start...
In world government of many countries are trying to use e-technology in different forms. Governments are taking benefits of e-technology to improve people’s lives. The traditional bureaucratic ideology like standardization, departmentalization and operational cost efficiency are changed in egovernment ideology like network building, external collaboration and citizen services etc.