The Future of Public Administration

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The Future of Public Administration

Public administration is often regarded as including also some responsibility for determining the policies and programs of governments. Specifically, it is the following:

· Planning

· Organizing

· Directing

· Coordinating

· Controlling of government operations.

Public administration is a feature of all nations, whatever their system of government. Within nations public administration is practiced at the

· Central

· Intermediate

· Local levels

Civil Service

The body of public administrators is usually called the CIVIL SERVICE.

Certain characteristics are common to all civil services.

Senior civil servants are regarded as the professional advisers to those who formulate state policy.

Senior civil servants are professional in the sense that their experience of public affairs is thought to provide them with the knowledge of the limits within which state policy can be made effective and of the probable administrative results of different courses of action.

Civil servants in every country are expected to:

· Advise

· Warn

· Assist those responsible for state policy

· And, when this has been decided, to provide the organization for implementing it.

The responsibility for policy decisions lies with the political members of the executive (those members who have been elected or appointed to give political direction to government and, customarily, career civil servants).

By custom, civil servants are protected from public blame or censure for their advice.

The acts of their administration may, however, be subject to special judicial controls from which no member of the executive can defend them.

Structure of civil service

Civil services are organized u...

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...ared leadership

· Clusters of people working and growing together

· Leadership "energizes" and energizing the group means energizing the leadership

Future tasks of Public Administration

· Make democracy suitable for modern conditions

· Support efforts that extend democracy

· New roles to be played with respect to the public i.e. "Citizen's First" concept

· Less controlling and more of supporting, resolving, exploring, creating and caring

· Developing and maintaining more democratic forms of organizations and management

· Integration of theories and practice

· Public service to make a difference for a better future for all

Submitted by:

Riaz Ahmad Malik

MPA Department

University of the Punjab

Pakistan

(2001-2003)

Bibliography:

References for Future of Public Administration: Mr. Robert B. Denhardt (University of Delaware)

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