PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

AS A FIELD OF

STUDY, ARTS, SCIENCE,

DISCIPLINE, AND PRACTICE
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY
Administrative Organization
01 - processes for organizing resources at work efficiently, aiming directly at
directing the human element to carry out administrative tasks.
• Structure
- is a typically hierarchical arrangement of lines of authority.
 Simple Structure
 Functional/Matrix Structure
 Standalone Unit Structure
• Coordination
- the act of bringing many individuals or departments together in order to
achieve a common organizational goal.
• Control
- allow executives to track how well the organization is performing, identify
areas of concern, and then take action to address the concerns.
 Output Control
 Behavioral control
 Clan Control
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY
02 Personnel Administration (Human Resource Management)
- the coordination and regulation of employees in a company.
• Training
- a learning experience that seeks a relatively permanent change
in an individual that will improve his/her ability to perform on the job.
• Recruitment
- selecting employees on the basis of their relative ability, knowledge and skills.
• Promotion
- the advancement of an employee to a higher job involving more work,
greater responsibility and higher status.
• Morale of Public Employees
- the culmination of job satisfaction, life outlook, and attitude.
- High morale leads to good discipline, high degree of interest in the job,
loyalty to the organization and high performance.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY
03 Financial Administration
-job of managing financial tasks for a company or organization.
• Budgeting
- exercise of allocating revenues and programmed expenditure for the upcoming
financial year.
• Accounting
- the measuring, processing, and recording of financial transactions of an
organization.
• Purchasing
- is responsible for the procurement process.
• Borrowing
- taking/receiving money by a resource deficit entity/person from a resource
surplus person/entity on commercial or non-commercial terms based on
mutual understanding.
• Tax Assessment
- refers to the calculation of tax liabilities through the application of governing
rates to the final tax base as specified by law.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY
The Management of Human Factors in Government
04
• Maintaining good relations between government
and citizen, and between department head or
bureau chief and the rank and file employees.
 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
AS AN ART AND SCIENCE
• Public Administration as an art is a skillful mastery of the art that
ensures efforts are directed and integrated with human efforts to attain
specific set objectives.
• It is not mere a theory but an art which is learned by practical
application of knowledge.
• Public Administration as a Science uses research, experimentation,
observation, data collection, and analysis from which principles and
laws can be made.
 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
AS A DISCIPLINE
• This deals with the implementation of public policy by government
workers.
• It also involves management of programs in the public framework. It
operates by managing every arm of public service in the central
government, states and regional levels.
 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
AS A PRACTICE
• It is the planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and 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, and local levels.
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