Explain the similarities found between public and private administration
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1.Both public and business administration rely on common techniques relating to planning, organization, budgeting, delegation, control and the like. Both make use of common skills such as accounts keeping, maintaining files etc.
2.In modern times the principle of profit motive is not particular to private administration. profit making is now acceptable as a laudable objectives for public sector industries too. Further, the business organization have also developed the sense of community service. They have also come to realize that they too have wider responsibilities in society.
3. In personnel management the private organizations have been influenced greatly by the practices of public organization. In recent years public organizations have also attempted to adopt private business method and practices. For example, the public corporations created to run the government owned economic and commercial activities are largely modeled on private business concerns. They resemble the private companies in nature.
4. In modern times private business concerns are also subjected to many legal constraints. Government is exercising much control over business firms through taxation, monitory and licensing policies Consequently, they are not as free as they once used to be.