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• Public Administration is a field of business which is removed from the hurry and strife of politics and stands apart from the debatable ground of constitutional study.
• Public Administration is the management of men and materials in the accomplishment of the purposes of the state.
• The survival of government depends primarily on its Public Administration, an essential tool of government.
• The role of Public Administration in society, regardless of time, revolves around the concept of public service.
• This discipline significantly contributes in shaping both the aspirations and expectations of the people in its efforts to improve their quality of life.
• Public Administration is the role through which the people transact their business with the government.
• Public Administration relates to the conduct of government services to the conduct of the affairs of any other social organization, commercial, philanthropic, religious, or educational, in all of which good management is recognized as an element essential to success.
• Public Administration is a cooperative group effort in a public setting; covers all the three branches – executive, legislative and judicial- and their inter-relationships; has an important role in the formulation of public policy and is thus part of the political process.
• Public Administration is different in significant ways from private administration and is closely associated with numerous private groups and individuals in providing services to the community.
• Public Administration is concerned with the institutional framework of government, its socio-economic and political milieu, and the behavior of the individuals who man the bureaucratic machine.
• Public Administration is simply the concept of “Government in Action”.
• Administration is an organizational process concerned with the implementation of objectives and plans and internal operating efficiency; connotes bureaucratic structure and behavior, relatively routine decision-making and maintenance of the internal status quo; is the capacity of coordinating many and often conflicting social energies in a single organism.
• Management is the planning, deciding, or exercising of control and supervision on some functions of the organization; is the function of executive leadership, operating in an organizationally-vested superiority in all hierarchy of authorities.
• Public Administration has two major periods: the Classical or Traditional Period from 1800s to 1950s and the Modern Period from 1950s to present.
• New Public Management was a period from 1980s to 1990s.
• Public Administration is currently moving towards a governance model.
• Private Administration is not normally subjected to public criticism.
• Private Administration is a broad field of administration where official actions are based on public trust carrying legal accountability.
• Private Administration is not subjected to public criticism.
• Private Administration is relatively routine decision-making procedure maintaining internal status quo.
• Private Administration is a limited field of administration not necessarily based on public trust and has limited legal accountability.
• Private Administration is characterized by unlimited decision-making processes and dynamic entrepreneurship.
• New Public Administration was a period towards 1970s.
• Private Administration is not necessarily based on public trust and has limited legal accountability.
• Reinventing Government was a period from 1990s.
• Private Administration is not restricted by requirements of fiscal accountability foreign to corporate device.
• Development Administration was a period in Public Administration from 1950s to 1960s.
• Administration refers to the aggregate of those persons in whose hands the reins of the government are placed for the time being, performing specific administrative services such as but not limited to carrying on governmental routine work, performing ordinary, scientific and technical aspects of the machinery, necessary to carry its day-to-day functions.
• Government embraces the totality of all institutions through which the state carries out its will.
• Public Administration is the cooperative group efforts in a public setting; covers the three branches – executive, legislative and the judiciary – and their interrelatedness; has an important role in the formulation of public policy, thus is a part of the political process.
• Public Administration: Art or Science?
• Art is defined as the proficiency in the practical application of knowledge acquired through study, experience, or observation; is also the use of talent for creative work.
• Science is the systematic accumulation of facts, their analyses and interpretation, and their use to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion.
• As an art, Public Administration is the direction, coordination, and control of many persons to achieve some purpose or objective.
• As a science, Public Administration is a body of formal statements describing invariant relationships between measurable objects, units, or elements.
• Public Administration is interested in the techniques of systematizing the process of securing and sifting relevant information so that the factors involved in arriving at a policy decision can be stated and the consequences of alternatives can be analyzed and balanced.
• Douglas McGregor, in his book “The Human Side of Enterprise”, stated that management is a human activity and should be considered as a social function.
• Lateral processes within hierarchical organizations which led to the matrix style organization.
• Mayo introduced the famous decision-making that “satisfices” the situation, arguing that managers should find decisions or solutions that would “satisfice” the situation, he is well known for the concept of bounded rationality and his model of administrative man who maximizes.
• Mary Parker Follet, a scholar on management theory and behavior, argued on the following organizational theses: