Important Perspectives About The Scope of Public Adminstration

Important Perspectives About The Scope of Public Adminstration. Following are the three important perspectives about the scope of Public Adminstration.

1. Narrow perspective or posdcord perspective

Luther Gullick is the main exponent of this perspective. According to him the scope of public administration is narrow or limited. It is also regarded as posdcord view. It insist that the Public Adminstration is concerned only with those aspects of administration which are related with the executive branch and its seven types of administrative functions.

These seven types of functions which shows the scope of Public Adminstration are as follows

• ‘P’ stands for Planning. Planning is the first step of Public Adminstration. i.e. working out the broad outline of the things that need to be done.
• ‘O’ stands for organization. It means establishment of the formal structure of authority through which the work is sub divided, arranged and co-ordinated for the defined objective.
• ‘S’ stands for staffing. It means the recruitment and training of the staff and maintenance of favourable conditions of work for the staff.
• ‘D’ stands for Directing. It means the continuous task of making decisions and embodying them in specific and general orders and instructions, and thus guiding the enterprise.
• ‘Co’ stands for Co-ordination. It means interrelating the various parts of organization such as branches, divisions, sections of the work and elimination of overlapping.
• ‘R’ stands for Reporting. It means informing the authority to whom the executive is responsible as to what is going on.
• ‘B’ stands for Budgeting. It means accounting, fiscal planning and control.

2. Broad perspective or subject - oriented perspective

Prof. Woodrow Wilson, L D While are main exponent of this perspective. They have taken a very broad approach about the scope of Public Adminstration. According to them

• Public Adminstration 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.
• Scope of Public Adminstration is like a cooperative group. It consist of all from class one officer to class four employees.
• Public Adminstration 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.

3. Prevailing view

Prevailing view divides the scope of Public Adminstration into two parts.

1. Adminstrative theory.

• Organisational Theory. The Structure, organization, functions and methods of all types of public authority engaged in administration, whether national, regional or local and executive.
• Behaviour. The functions of adminstrative authorities and the various methods appropriate to different types of functions. The various forms of control of administration.
• Public Personal Adminstration. The problems concerning personnel e.g. recruitment, training, promotion, retirement etc. and the problems relating to planning, research, information and public relation services.

2. Applied administration

• Political functions. It includes the executive - legislative relationship, administrative activities of the cabinet, the minister and permanent official relationship.
• Legislative function. It includes delegated legislation and the preparatory work done by the officials in connection with the drawing up of bills.
• Financial functions. It includes total financial administration from the preparation of the budget to its execution, accounting and audit etc.
• Defence. Functions relating to military adminstration.
• Educational function. It includes functions relating to educational administration.
• Social welfare administration. It includes the activities of the departments concerned with food; housing, social security and development activities.
• Economic Adminstration. It is concerned with the production and encouragement of industries and agriculture.
• Foreign administration. It includes the conduct of foreign affairs, diplomacy, international cooperation etc.
• Local administration. It concern with the activities of the local self-governing institutions.