Why administration are important to study
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At this moment Public Administration is a demand-able subject for achieving Bachelor and master degree. However, if you’re questioned why public administration is important, I can inform you five basic things. Such as:-
Planning: Legislators are chiefly responsible for bringing new laws and policies to their system. Their administrators are the professionals who handle the detailed planning process before implementing a new program.Coordination: A lot is often made of the power of inter-departmental cooperation. Mayors’ offices tout the value of working closely with governors’ offices, and local law enforcement working with state and federal law enforcement, and so on.Advisory Value: The field starts at the most basic levels of public service, such as in DMV offices, but it reaches to the highest echelons of government. Elected officials seek out policy experts to act as their advisors, meaning that public administration professionals are often the people behind some of the biggest decisions in public policy enacted by government executives and legislators.Efficiency and Sustainability: Because public administrators are the people on the ground, so to speak, they have the most in-depth understanding of where waste and inefficiency occur in a given department.Non-Profit Viability: Public administration expertise isn’t just limited to government work. Non-profit organizations (NPO)
Wikipedia quotes the Random House Unabridged Dictionary in defining public administration: “Public administration is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for working in the public service.”
Whoever passes laws in a government—whether a popularly elected legislature, a council of oligarchs, or any other entity that has the authority to make the laws by which a society is governed—doesn’t carry out those laws. There are too many tasks involved in carrying out governmental functions for the legislators to perform all of the functions. In addition, some functions require technical expertise which the lawmakers may not have. Therefore, a separate group of people carry out the laws. This is also known as executing the laws, and the group that does that is the executive, or executive branch.
That function, public administration, is important because that is what makes the government perform the services that the lawmakers say the government should provide. For example, the legislators may enact a law saying that for public health reasons homes and businesses will have to stop using water from wells and cisterns, and use water provided by the government or a government-regulated utility company. Such a law would also require homes and businesses to stop dumping their sewage onto or into the ground, and use a sewer system provided by the same organization providing the water.
Water and sewer systems are basic to a healthy environment in modern cities. Establishing, maintaining, and administering those systems is complicated, involving engineering, financial, and clerical functions. If the people running the system don’t do a good job—whether through incompetence or corruption—consequences might include citizens not having water, citizens being poisoned by incorrectly processed water, rivers being polluted due to failure of the sewer system, or the utility going bankrupt due to inefficient billing.
The above example can be extrapolated to all governmental functions. Things like public roads, public education, unemployment insurance, and national defense don’t materialize because a law is passed. They also do not run themselves. Public administration is how those things get done, and a failure in that function has serious consequences for society.
For the same reason, public administration as an academic discipline is important. Public administration is a part of the broader field of management. It is sufficiently distinct from management of private industry—absence of profit motive, for example—that it merits specialized.
Public Administration is generating, forming, implementing, impact-assessing, and management of government policy. In other words, public administr...
Planning: Legislators are chiefly responsible for bringing new laws and policies to their system. Their administrators are the professionals who handle the detailed planning process before implementing a new program.Coordination: A lot is often made of the power of inter-departmental cooperation. Mayors’ offices tout the value of working closely with governors’ offices, and local law enforcement working with state and federal law enforcement, and so on.Advisory Value: The field starts at the most basic levels of public service, such as in DMV offices, but it reaches to the highest echelons of government. Elected officials seek out policy experts to act as their advisors, meaning that public administration professionals are often the people behind some of the biggest decisions in public policy enacted by government executives and legislators.Efficiency and Sustainability: Because public administrators are the people on the ground, so to speak, they have the most in-depth understanding of where waste and inefficiency occur in a given department.Non-Profit Viability: Public administration expertise isn’t just limited to government work. Non-profit organizations (NPO)
Wikipedia quotes the Random House Unabridged Dictionary in defining public administration: “Public administration is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for working in the public service.”
Whoever passes laws in a government—whether a popularly elected legislature, a council of oligarchs, or any other entity that has the authority to make the laws by which a society is governed—doesn’t carry out those laws. There are too many tasks involved in carrying out governmental functions for the legislators to perform all of the functions. In addition, some functions require technical expertise which the lawmakers may not have. Therefore, a separate group of people carry out the laws. This is also known as executing the laws, and the group that does that is the executive, or executive branch.
That function, public administration, is important because that is what makes the government perform the services that the lawmakers say the government should provide. For example, the legislators may enact a law saying that for public health reasons homes and businesses will have to stop using water from wells and cisterns, and use water provided by the government or a government-regulated utility company. Such a law would also require homes and businesses to stop dumping their sewage onto or into the ground, and use a sewer system provided by the same organization providing the water.
Water and sewer systems are basic to a healthy environment in modern cities. Establishing, maintaining, and administering those systems is complicated, involving engineering, financial, and clerical functions. If the people running the system don’t do a good job—whether through incompetence or corruption—consequences might include citizens not having water, citizens being poisoned by incorrectly processed water, rivers being polluted due to failure of the sewer system, or the utility going bankrupt due to inefficient billing.
The above example can be extrapolated to all governmental functions. Things like public roads, public education, unemployment insurance, and national defense don’t materialize because a law is passed. They also do not run themselves. Public administration is how those things get done, and a failure in that function has serious consequences for society.
For the same reason, public administration as an academic discipline is important. Public administration is a part of the broader field of management. It is sufficiently distinct from management of private industry—absence of profit motive, for example—that it merits specialized.
Public Administration is generating, forming, implementing, impact-assessing, and management of government policy. In other words, public administr...
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