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The document discusses two views on the nature of public administration: the integral view and the managerial view. The integral view sees public administration as encompassing all government activities from clerical to managerial. The managerial view sees it as only including managerial activities. It also discusses three perspectives on the scope of public administration: the narrow POSDCORB perspective focusing on seven elements of administration; the broad perspective seeing it as encompassing all three branches of government and their interrelationships; and the prevailing view. Finally, it outlines the role and importance of public administration, including that it is the basis of government, an instrument of change, plays a vital role in people's lives, and is important for national

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The document discusses two views on the nature of public administration: the integral view and the managerial view. The integral view sees public administration as encompassing all government activities from clerical to managerial. The managerial view sees it as only including managerial activities. It also discusses three perspectives on the scope of public administration: the narrow POSDCORB perspective focusing on seven elements of administration; the broad perspective seeing it as encompassing all three branches of government and their interrelationships; and the prevailing view. Finally, it outlines the role and importance of public administration, including that it is the basis of government, an instrument of change, plays a vital role in people's lives, and is important for national

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Q no 4: Integral & managerial view:

Nature of Public Administration


In terms of nature there are also two divergent views in public administration. The first
one is Integral view and the second one is Managerial view.

Integral View
From this perspective, Public administration refers to all activities from clerical to
managerial activity of the administration. That means integral view proposes that
administration is the sum totals all activities of manual, clerical or managerial.

In simple we can say, all the work process done by the government official from peon to
executive officers are the part of public administration.

L.D White and Woodrow Wilson, Marshal E. Dimock are the main supporters of this
view.

Managerial View
In the managerial view, Public administration refers to only managerial activity of the
administration. That means in this view administration constitutes of the work of only
those person who are performing managerial functions.

Activities of clerical, manual and also technical departments are excluded from the range
of public administration. Luther Gulick, Henry Fayol, Herbert Simon are the main
supporters of the managerial view.

Q5. Scope of public adminstration

Scope of Public Administration


When we concern about the scope of public administration, basically we want to know
the major concerns and areas of public administration.
Following are the three important perspectives about the scope of Public
Administration.
1. Narrow perspective or posdcorb perspective.
2. Broad perspective or subjectmatter view.
3. Prevailing view
Narrow perspective or posdcorb perspective.

The POSDCORB view in the scope of public administration is given by the prominent
administrative scholar Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick.
According to them every administration has should seven elements. These seven
elements are acronym as POSDCORB. Each letter of this acronym implies one element
of administration.
They explain these seven elements of administration in the following way-

P- Planning– It is the task of managers of every administration to plan everything that


needs to be done and the methods for doing them to accomplish the purpose set for the
enterprise.
O- Organizing- Every organization needs to be well organized. Managers should
allocate the task to their employee and others subordinates by the proper techniques.

S- Staffing- Staffing refers to the whole personnel function of bringing in and training
the staff and maintaining favorable condition for work.

D- Directing- It refers to the continuous task of making decisions and embodying them
in specific and general order and instructions and also serving as a leader to the
enterprise.
CO- Coordinating- It is the important duty of the manager to coordinate between
coworkers and executives.
R-Reporting- It is referred to inform every report of the work to the executives.
B- Budgeting- All that goes with budgeting in the form of fiscal planning, accounting
and control.

Broad perspective or subjectmatter view.

Prof. Woodrow Wilson and L D White are main exponent of this perspective. They
have taken a very broad approach about the scope of Public Administration.

According to them
A. Public Administration covers all three branches of the government. Legislative,
Executive and Judicial and their interrelationship. Legislative organ makes the
laws, Executive organ of the government implements the laws and Judicial
organ of the government interprets the laws. There is interrelationship between
these three organs.
B. Scope of Public Administration is like a cooperative group. It consists of all
from class one officer to class four employees.
C. Public Administration is a part of the political process. It has an important role in
the formulation of public policy at all levels, from national to grassroot. It is
closely associated with numerous private groups and individuals in providing
services to the community. It has been influenced in recent years by the human
relations approach.

Role and Importance of Public Administration –

In today’s modern state and in developing countries functions and role of Public
Administration is very important. The role and importance of Public Administration
are as follows.
1. It is the basis of government.
2. It is the instrument of change in the society.
3. It plays vital role in the life of the people.
4. It is an instrument for executing laws, policies, programmes of the state.
5. It is a stabilizing force in the society as it provides continuity.
6. It is instrument of national integration in the developing countries which
are facing classwars.

1. It is the basis of Government -


It is possible for a state to exist without a legislature or judiciary; but not even the
most backward state can do without administrative machinery. The modern state
cannot confine its field of activities to merely maintenance of law and order,
dispensation of Justice, collection of revenue and taxes and participation in welfare
activities. The modern welfare state is expected to provide more and more services
and amenities to the people. Public Administration is the machinery used by the state
to place itself in a position to make plans and programmes that can be carried out.

2. It is the instrument of change in the society -


Public Administration is regarded as an instrument of change and is expected to
accelerate the process of development. In our country, the government has undertaken
the task of leveling down the economic inequalities, spreading education among all
abolishing untouchability securing equality of status, rights of women and effective
and all round economic and industrial development. The burden of carrying out these
social changes in a planned and orderly way rests upon the Public Administration of
the country. The success of Indian democracy will depend not only on the wisdom of
the legislature but more on the capability and sense of purpose on the part of the
Administration.

3. It plays vital role in the life of the people -


Today every aspect of human life comes within the range of Public Administration.
Various departments of government such as education, social welfare, food,
agriculture, health, sanitation, transport, communication etc. are run by the
department of Public Administration. Thus Public Administration is rendering
various types of services to the people from birth to death of an individual.

4. It is a stabilizing force in the society as it provides


continuity

Public Administration is carried on by the civil servants who are the permanent
executives. Political executives i.e. ministers may come and go, systems of government
or constitutions may undergo change but administration goes on forever. Hence, Public
Administration is a great stabilizing force in society. It is a preserver of the society and
its culture.

5. It is instrument of national integration in the developing


countries which are facing classwars –

Conclusion -
The success of government is dependent on the ability of public administration. The
future of civilized government rests upon the ability, to develop a service and philosophy
and a practice of administration competent to discharge the Public functions of civilized
society.

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