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Public Administration by Atif Ameer
Public Administration by Atif Ameer
Public
Administration
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Features:-
a) Spoil System involves political activity.
b) Spoil System extends personal turnover do to routine.
c) Enriches and benefits the ruling party.
Benefits:-
Merit System:-
Transformation
Process
Inputs Outputs
Responsibilities:-
HRM:-
Acquisition
Development of human resources
Motivation
Maintaince
Nature of HRM:-
Theories of HRM:-
Muturity
Birth Death
Org. stability
2. Role-Behaviour Theory:-
Behaviour
4. Institutional Theory:-
5. Transaction Cost Theory:-
Cost of conducting business transactions
Employment relationship cost must be minimized
6. Comparative Advantage Theory:-
Produce goods of domestic comparative
7. General Systems Theory:-
Organizations are open systems in active exchange with their environment.
8. Human Capital Theory:-
Education & capital training as source of capital.
Returnable investments.
Issues in Implementation:-
Challenges:
Definitions:-
Public policy is a choice made by an individual group of individuals that explains, justifies,
guides, or outlines a certain course of action. (Presthus)
Public policy is the sum of government activities, whether acting directly or through
agents, as it has an influence on life of citizens. (Guy Peters)
a) Deployment
b) Implementation
c) Measurement and evaluation
d) Transformational leadership
Closed System
Scientific Management Administrative Management Bureaucratic Management
Focuses of productivity Functions of management Overall organization
Of independent worker Henri Fayol system within which
Fredrick Taylor a) Division of labour workers & management
b) Authority/responsible Max Weber
c) Unity of direction a) Impersonal social
d) Remuneration of b) Employee selection
personnel promotion
e) Centralization of power c) Hierarchy of authority
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Open System
Characteristics:-
Open System
Planning Process:-
1) Preparing to Plan:
Strategic planning session.
Strategic Plan
Initiate Options
2) Planning Roles:
a) Leader
b) Facilitator
c) Researchers, interviews, writers
d) Financial resources
e) Skills, knowledge, expertise
i. Recognizing the need for planning
ii. Determining the objectives
iii. Forecasting the future
iv. Setting priorities
v. Developing action plans
vi. Implementing the plans
vii. Evaluating
viii. Revising
3) Define Vision, mission, activities and values:-
a) Vision statement
b) Mission statement
c) Activities statement
d) Values statement
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1) Determine Objectives
2) Identify problems
3) Develop recommendations
4) Implement plan
5) Review/Update
6) Data Collection
-Policy Analysis:-
-Context:-
-Steps:-
Methods:-
1) Qualitative
2) Quantitative
3) Case Study
4) Survey research
5) Statistic analysis
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Approaches:-
-Models:-
1) Institutional Model
2) Process Model
3) Rational Model
4) Incremental Model
5) Group Model
6) Elite model
7) Six-step model
-Policy Implementation:-
Pre-requisites:-
Hurdles:-
1) Financial constraints
2) Bureaucratic incorporation
3) Lack of political support and polarization
4) Role of govt agencies and pressure groups.
5) Lack of will of administration
6) Lack of coordination and cooperation
7) Excessive centralization.
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-Programme/Policy Evaluation:-
Types of Evaluation:-
By Joseph S. Whooley
Methods of Evaluation:-
1) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2) PPBS (program-planning & budgeting system
3) Experimental Method
4) Evaluating Agencies
5) Legislative bodies
6) Audit Process
7) Administrative agencies
8) Commissions and Independent agencies.
Hurdles:-
Functions:-
1) Federal Ministries/Divisions
2) Provincial Planning and Development Department
3) NEC
4) ENEC (Executive Committee of NEC)
5) Central Development working Party (CPWP)
6) Federal level Departmental Development working Party (DDWP)
7) Provincial Departmental Development working Party (DDWP)
1) Globalization process
2) International economic organizations
3) Debt Burden (Structural Adjustment Programmes)
4) Aid
5) Dependency theory and neo-colonialism
-Economic growth
-State building
-rule of law Fukuyama Theory of development.
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-democracy
-social mobilization
-Development Administration:-
-organized efforts to carry out programmes or projects through by those involved to serve
developmental objectives. (Riggs)
1. Change-orientation
2. Goal-orientation
3. Time-orientation
4. Innovative administration
5. Client-oriented administration
6. Participation-oriented administration
7. Effective coordination
8. Innovativeness
9. Ecological Perspective
1. Temporal Dimension
2. Spatial Dimension. (impact of region and space on development)
Critique:-
1. Absence of unification
2. Strategy has been questioned
3. Ideological and Eurocentric
4. Elitism in bureaucracy
5. Increase in bureaucratic influence
6. Structural discrepancy
7. Emphasis on non-productive orientation
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Hierarchical Structure
Organization by functional
Speciality
Purposely Important
Characteristics:-
1. Hierarchical dominance
2. Functional specialization
3. Set pattern rules
4. Impersonality
5. Division of lab
6. Contractual appointment
7. Seniority based promotion
8. Appropriation is restricted
9. Superior than any other organization
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- Scientific Management:-
Principles:-
7. Rumernation
8. Centralization
9. Scalar Chain
10. Order
11. Equity
12. Stability of tenure
13. Initiative
14. Espirt de Corps
Criticism:-
1. Wrong assumptions
2. Vogues psychological jargons
3. Shortage of labour behind the emergence of HR
4. Over emphasizing human element.
LEADERSHIP:-
Types
1. Conventional leader
2. Celebrated leader
3. Legitimized leader
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4. Expert leader
5. Charismatic leader
Styles
1. Exploitative Authoritative leadership
2. Benevolent Authoritative leadership
3. Consultive leadership
4. Participative leadership
Theories (Barnard, Millet, Tead, Schell)
1) Trait Theory:-
- Survival of the fittest
- Leaders are born, innate
- Zaccaro Model
2) Behavioural Theories:-
a) Ohio State Studies:
1) Transcational leader
2) Transformation leader
Contingent Reward
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Management by Expectation Expected outcome Performa beyond
Expectation
(Transcational leader)
3) Situational Theory:-
- Schmid continuum of leader behaviour
- Fiedler Contingency Theory
- House-Mitchell path goal Theory Macdonald.
4) Great-man theory (History of world is biography of great man)
5) Participative theory
Motivation:
Theories
Self actualization
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Esteem recognition
Love/belonging
Safety
Relatedness Needs
-Salary -Advancement
-Relation with peers -Growth
1. Achievement
2. Affiliation
3. Power
1. Expectancy
2. Instrumentality
3. Valence
- Effort- performance expectancy
Expectancy X Instrumentality X Valence = Motivation
1. Participant governed network
2. Lead-organization governed network
3. Network administrative organ
Network Governance:-
Modes
1) Participant-governed Networks:-
Features
1) Highly de-centralized and centralized
2) Dependence on all committed stakeholders
3) Collective decision making
4) Responsible for managing internal network relationships and operations.
2) Lead organization-governed networks:-
1) Occur in vertical and horizontal relationships
2) High centralized structure
3) Lead organization responsible for adm.
4) Finding from internal/external sources.
3) Network Administrative Organization
-Separate identity/administrative entity
1) NAO is highly centralized
2) Externally governed mechanism
3) Based on single individual
(Kyoto Protocol is example of Network Governance)
Governance and Network Tensions
Areas:
1) Over-supply
2) Budget maximization
Theory of Organization
1) Organizational life-cycle theory
2) Institutional theory
3) General Systems theory
4) Organizational Change theory
5) Organizational learning theory
1) Chief Executive
2) Legislature
3) Ministry of Finance
4) Auditor General
5) Parliamentary committees (Estimates PAC Committee)
Budgeting:-
Find definition
Types:
Principles of budgeting:-
Discol:
1) Publicity
2) Clarity
3) Comprehensiveness
4) Unity
5) Periodicity
6) Accuracy
7) Integrity
-it provides remedies to public against the wrongs or their ultra vires.
a) Political
b) Writ petition
Article 4:
Any act of govt. involving ultro-vires can be got declared null and void.
Types of litigation:-
Separation
Gov
1) Increasing responsibilities
2) Complex legislation
3) Complex legislation
4) Speedy decisions
5) Law and order situation
6) Easy methodology
7) Good govt
8) Economic growth
9) Suffering of public work
10) Law of experts.
“People are not bad but bad control makes them bad”.
-people are not bad but bad control makes them bad.
Executive Function
Delegated legislation:-
-against the theory of separation of powers.
7) Bye-laws
8) Directions
9) Instructions
10) Statue
11) Need of distinction
12) Abuse of power
2) Judicial Control:-
- Personal relief comes here.
a) If delegated leg is against constitution
b) If Enabling Act is against constitution
c) If dele. Leg is against Enabling Act
d) Unreason able ness of delegated legislation
Procedural Control:-
1) Ante natal publicity
2) Consultation
3) Past-natal publication
Judicial Review:-
1) Error of jurisdiction
2) Error of procedure
a) Malafide (wrong intention)
b) Improper purpose
c) Irrelevant consideration
d) Mixed consideration
e) Ignoring relevant consideration
f) Colorable exercise of power
g) Un-reasonability
Remedies:-
-Quasi-Judicial (tribunal/internal inquires constitutional (five writs)
- Ombudsman
1) Remedies against quasi-judicial decisions:-
1. Extra ordinary judicial (public) remedy:-
-Article 184 and 199
a) Locus Stand I:-
1) Aggrieved party (certiorari, Mandamus, Prohibits)
2) Any person (Habeas corpus, Quo warranto)
3) Sou motto
4) Public interest litigation
b) Alternative remedy:-
c) Discretionary remedy – Civil courts:-
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Public-Ad Mcqs
1) Public Ad public policy implementation
2) Planning machinery in Pak centralized
3) Communication runs faster in centralized
4) Performance budgeting objectives of expenditure
5) Ideal model of bureaucracy legal-ration.
6) Concept of bounded rationality Herbert Simon
7) Auther of Function of Executive Chester Bertnard
8) „Entropy‟ is a law of nature in which all forms of organization move towards
disorganization and death
9) One choice theory is economic exploitation of psycho
10) System theory Parsons
11) Articulate spokesperson of Adm. Management Henri Fayol
1) Line Hem-budget
Shows comparison between the financial day for the past accounting or budgeting period
and estimated figures for current or a future period.
Expense Fy 2016 Budget Fy 2018
a 1 2
b 2 3
c 3 4
d 4 5
e
2) Performacing budgeting:
- Funding linked with output
- Reflects in the input of resources and output of services for each unit of an
organization.
3) Program Budgeting:
- US president Lyndon Iohson.
- Describe & gives detailed cost of every activity or Programme that is to be carried out
with a given budget.
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4) Zero-based budgeting
- Zero based budgeting is a method of budgeting in which all expenses must be justified
for each new period.
- Starts from zero base.
- Budget according to needs
- Calls for justification of old.
Allocating
Condoling
5) Outcome based budgeting
- Same as performance
5) Functions:
i. KP devolved most
ii. Punjab
-no LDA
-No parks and H (PHA)
-no (SWM)
iii. Baluchistan, Sindh limited
6) Fiscal Power:
1) Provinci/ finance commission award
Constitution:
1. Minister of finance
2. Minister of IG
3. 3 MPA
4. 2 MNA
5. Secretary finance dpt
Methods:-
Problems:-
Impacts:-
1) Increase in efficiency
2) Economic benefits
3) Package of liberalization polices
4) Macro-economic Impacts.
5) Improved organizational performance.
Problems in Privatization:-
Advantages:-
1) Deficiency + profitability
2) Lack of negative political interference
3) Retirement of debt.
4) Reduction in fiscal burden
5) Short-term view
6) Share-holders
7) Increased competition
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Success MCB
Failure K-electric
Categories:-
Social Regulation
- Health
- Security
- Env
Economic
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- Price setting
- Quantity
- Service quality
- Limiting entrance
- Prohibiting
Theories:-
Process of Regulation
Notice of proposed
- Judiciary Role
Tech- based regulation
Regulatory approach:-
Disclosure regulation
Principles:-
1) Identification of problem
2) Examining existing regulation
3) Identification of alternative regulation
4) Reasonable priority setting
5) Designing effective obj.
6) Cost-Benefit
7) Avoid inconsistent
8) Easy, simple
1) SBP
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Tollbooth Theory:-
Characteristics:
a) De-centre of power
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b) Autonomy
c) No fixed ideology sanctuary
d) Impact of globalization
e) Participation of masses
f) Confidence among local communities
Political
Administrative
Types: fiscal
Functional
Democratic
5) Business Re-engineering:-
“rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to a dramatic improvements in
critical contemporary measures performance such as cost, quality, service, speed”.
Inputs
Business process Process (Business re-engineering in this)
Output
Features:-
Standardization
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Output Participants
BPR
Diagram
Input Activities
Order
How:-
- Innovative propositions
- Micro-management dynamic
- TQM, IT, Market testing
- Elimination of paper work
- Synergy mode
- Dient-based performance
- Taylor management
Stages:
1) Invision Stage
2) Initiation Stage
3) Dianosis Stage
4) Re-design stage
5) Re-construction Stage
6) Evaluation stage
6. QUALITY ASSURANCE
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Structured reporting
Releasing internal
capabilities
Quality assurance
a) TQM
Customer Focus
TQM Model
b) Role of NPM
Public Corporations
- Share publically traded and are usually held by large number (100-1000) shareholders.
- Public limited company
- Corporation created to perform gov function or to operate under gov control
enmunicipal Water Company.
- Created by‟enabling, special act of parliament.
For profit
Non Profit
Recommendation:
- Unification, standardized pay scale, generalist,
2) Gladieux Report 1955:
- Specialized instead of generalist
3) Pay, Service Commission (1962)
- Only 7 groups
4) Working group (1969)
- Same status of all groups.
- No difference between provincial, central office
5) Adm Reform Committee 1972:-
- Unified group
- Job evaluation
Pre service
In-service
4) Training: foreign training
Pre-Service
- CTP
- STP
- CSA
In-Service
- NMC (National Management Course)
- SMC (Senior Mangement Course)
- Mid-Carrer Management Course)
- NDC (National Defence College)
- NIPA
Foreign Training
BPS 17-19
BPS 20-21 (Harvard)
Technical assistance programmes
Provincial level (Planning and Development Department of the Province)
18th Amendment
5) Institutional & Cultural context of civil service:-
a) Elitism
1) Systemic factor
2) Cultural factor
3) Organizational factor
4) Lack of gender friendly policies
Planning Machinery of Pakistan
Functions:
1) Formulation
2) Implementation
3) Evaluation
Planning Machinery:-
1) National/Federal Planning Agency
2) Development Board (1948)
3) Planning Board/Commission (1953)
4) Permanent National Planning Commission (1957)
5) Federal Ministries/Divisions
- Annual Plan
- Roll on Plan
- Five Year Plan
- Perspective Plan
6) (PSDP) Public sector Development Programme
- Federal vs Provincial projects
- Ongoing vs New projects
- Foreign Aid projects
Components of Planning Machinery:-
1) Planning Machinery
2) Planning Commission
3) Planning & Development (P&D) Board
4) Dist gov/Zila council
5) Sanctionaing Machinery
6) Federal level
7) NEC
8) ENEC (Executive Committee of NEC)
9) Central Development working party (CDWP)
10) Federal Development working party (EDWP)
11) PDWP
12) Department sub-committees
Planning Process
Sent to all Fed. Ministers & Sent to all province govt for
Dev for inputs comments/ inputs
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Submission to NEC
NEC in Pakistan
- Constituted by President
- PM (Chairman of NEC)
- CM of all provinces
- One member from each province nominated by
- Four other members nominating by PM.
ECNEC
1) Federal gov would consult provincial gov before any hydo-electric power station
2) Receive duty collected by federal Gov.
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Electoral Reforms:-
Judicial Control:
1) Lack of jurisdiction
2) Error of law
3) Error of fact finding
4) Avenue of authority
5) Error of procedure.
6) Regulation of election spending
7) System of constituency monitors
8) Ind. Of polling staff
9) Better training of RO and staff
10) Training of polling agents.
11) Increase no of polling station & permanent
12) Count on website
13) Election tribunal should decide petition with 4 months.
14) Overseas. (postal balloting)
15) Extend the period of scruting of nomination
16) Voter security, staff security
17) Audit
18) Secret ballot
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How:
Administrative Corruption:-
- WB, II “the abuse of entrusted power for prive gain”.
- Adm. Corruption vs Adm. Integrity.
Types:
Roof-Causes:
Gross discrepancy between income of employees and their living expenses other
causes.
Lack of sensitivity & ethics
Rising trend of urban living
Corrupt climate.
Measures:
1) De-regulation
2) Public awareness
3) Re-engineering
4) Salaries
5) De-politicization of adm-system
6) Public-monitoring of Gov. Bodies.
7) Ind. bodies
8) Freedom of press
9) Human relation
Role:
Role of Media
Media
Formulate invoke
Negative opinion
Frustation In politics
1) Bureaucratic Responsiveness:-
- Openness and reciprocity of listening that promote relationship.
- (response-ability)
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Features:
Studies:
Taxes
Debt
Revenues Detailed Estimates Expenditure
no
deposit
Other revenue
Revenue & Recommendations
Detailed Security
Consideration &
submission of Consideration & approval of budget Proposals)
Recommendations
June/July
Authentication of schedule of
authorized expenditure
Schedule of authorized
expenditure sent to debt/division
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Lecture 1
Definition:-
Scope
Role
Private vs public ad.
Democracy vs Bureaucracy
Politics Vs administration officer
Traditional Vs New Public ad
School of thoughts.
Definition:-
Who equate the sphere of activity of p.a with the implementation of law and public policy.
a) L.D White:
Public Ad. Consists of all those operations having for their purpose, the fulfillment and
enforcement of public policy.
b) Woodrow Wilson:
Public administration is is the detailed and systematic application of law.
c) Harold F. Gortner:
Coordination of all organized activity for the implementation of public policy.
They believe that public administration is the process of carrying out the orders and
directives of the executive.
a) Luther Gulik:
Public ad is the part of the science of administration which has to do with government
and thus concern itself with the executive branch where the work of government is
done.
b) Herbert Simon:
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Concerned with the activities executive branches of national state and local
governments.
Another Group:-
Wider view
Combine all the three branches of government.
Prof Willoughby & George G. Horden.
Administrative function is the function of actually administering law as declared by the
legislative and interpreted by the judicial branch of the government.
Final Definition:
Managerial View:
Public ad, is the planning, organization, command, coordination and control (Henri Fay)
By P Maqueen
Luther Culick:
POSDCORB
P Planning
O Organization
S Staffing
D Directing
Co Coordination
R Reporting
B Budgeting
Subject-Matter View:-
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Activities such as law and order, defence, social security, defence education, public health
ignored by P O S D C O R B.
Merian says:-
Public ad is an instrument with two blades like a of scissors one blade is knowledge of the fields
covered by POSCDCORB, the other blade is the knowledge of subject matter in which these
techniques are applied. Both blades must be good to make an effective tool.
Walker:
a) Administrative theory
b) Applied administration
Political legislative Financial Defence Education
Economic Foreign empirical local
Traditional/descriptive approach.
Sopporters: L.D.White, Luther Gulick
Features:-
a) Impersonality
b) Specialization
c) Efficiency
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d) Hierarchy
e) Task of adm. Is technical.
f) Describe only set of facts.
g) Complete dichotomy of politics and administration.
2) SCIENTIFIC APPROACH:-
Mechanical approach
Supports: Taylor, Mooney, Frank, Werner.
Features:-
a) Scientific methods for administration
b) Mechanical organization under mechanical laws.
c) Focuses of material and methods.
d) Seperates Planning and execution.
Managers Workers
e) Organizational efficiency
f) Coordination between management & worker
g) Establishes dichotomy of politics from administration.
h) Scientific selection & training of workers.
3) HUMAN RELATION APPROACH:-
Supporters: Herbert Simon, Chester Barnard
Features:-
a) Describe, factual, empirical
b) Attention towards individuals, groups.
c) Motivation, decision-making
d) Informal, interpersonal, and intergroup relationships among members of an
organization
e) Study of informal social organization
f) Interdisciplinary in character
g) Role of individual, leadership etc.
h) Value-laden.
i) Impact of behaviorism.
4) ECOLOGICAL APPROACH:-
Interdependence of public bureaucracy and its environment (socio-political, cultural
sub-systems).
Supporters: Riggs, Robert Dahl, Gavs.
Features:-
Seven env factors explain the functions of government.
a) People
b) Place
c) Physical technology
d) Social technology
e) Wishes and ideas
f) Catastrophe
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g) Personality.
5) CASE- STUDY APPROACH:-
In reaction to traditional approach
The case study, method is going to be permanent feature of the study and teaching of
public administration.
6) THE COMPARATIVE APPROACH:-
Woodrow Wilson, Riggs, Robert Dahl.
Cross-national public administration.
Features:-
Principles of adm are universal but their applicability and relevance may yet to be
conditioned by the physical and social environment.
Major Issues:-
BUREAUCRACY VS DEMOCRACY
Bureaucracy Democracy
1) Development of groups or 1) Development of the individual
organization
2) Bureaucratic hierarchy 2) Equality
3) Top to down decision making and 3) Participation among citizins in decision-
authority. making
4) Direct
5) Selected, Imp
4) Freedom of expression, 6) Less Accountability.
representative elected, make law
strict accountant
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Politics Vs Administration:-
Efficiency Vs Equity:-
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Efficiency Equity
Traditional New
1) Resulted due to adm. Mediation of 1) Got influences from Industrial
Germany ind. Max-Weber‟s work. revolution and modern economies.
2) Public Service, as exclusive task 2) Collaborative exercise involving NGO
performed by gov. etc.
3) Citizen avoiding and gov. business. 3) Citizen friendly, transparent and
accountable.
4) Public-Private distinction 4) Public-private partnership.
5) Rigid, rule, hund and hierarchical 5) Flexible organizational Design and
model. Proactive Model
6) Process accountability 6) Result accountability
7) Anonmumous bureaucracy 7) Accountable bureaucracy
8) Structure-oriented 8) People-oriented
9) Emphasis on rationality 9) Emphasis on bounded-rationality
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Introduction:
- Service-oriented
1) Simplicity and ease Mosque was the Centre of all religious, social, political and adm
activities.
2) Islamic system easily assimilated foreign institutions with its won nations of gover. And
adm.
3) Religious and moral spirit
4) Practice of „Ijtihad‟.
Adm. According to Quran, Sunnah and Shariah:
Administration and Pious Caliphs:-
- 632-661
Administrative Institutions in Islam:-
1) Caliph
2) The Diwan (Secretariat)
3) Wizarah (Ministry)
4) Wulat (Governor)
Conclusion:
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