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Gains of Public
Administration
What is Public Administration?
Thinking in time helps the public administrator implement current trends which include new governance,
new leadership styles, generational change and succession planning, strategic and performance
measurement, citizen focus, reorganized work structure and process, e-government and e-democracy,
service delivery, innovation, ethics and transparency.
Context
The need to improve sustainability, along with the persistent fiscal crisis, makes each of these trends
relevant to cause the public administrator to think in time in order to implement these trends.
New leadership styles are the pivotal trend that will help government maintain sustainability and prevent
fiscal crisis. There are many types of leadership styles that has caused formal authority to become almost
obsolete and has led to innovative styles, such as transformational, change agent, facilitative and
situational. Each of these innovative leadership styles is effective. But the key to leadership style is
leadership ability.
Context
In John Maxwell’s The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, he identifies 21 laws of leadership in order to
produce effective results. These laws are applicable to the public sector.
However, the three laws that could make a new leadership effective are leadership ability, influence and
empowerment. Without an effective leadership style, the government loses its efficiency and sustainability
because of the “maze” of bureaucracy.
A system of bureaucracy causes a lack of innovation and places limitations on governance,
strategic/performance measurement, ethics and transparency.
Context
The transformational leadership style is new and innovative enough to help the government structure
maintain sustainability and improve the fiscal crisis. When implemented within a bureaucratic system, the
transformational leadership style will help strengthen the relationship between management and staff. This
type of leadership style enables the follower to be motivated and inspired and provides challenging tasks
which enable them to feel like a contributor.
Embedded within the transformational leadership are the elements of individualized consideration,
intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation and idealized influence. Each of these characteristics is
what makes the transformational leadership style effective.
Context
The individualized consideration is when the leader keeps communication open and places challenges
before the followers. Intellectual stimulation is where the leader challenges assumptions, takes risks,
stimulates creativity and turns unexpected situations into opportunities.
Inspirational motivation is where the leader articulates a vision that is appealing and challenges followers
with high standards. Idealized influence is where the leader becomes a role model for high ethical
behavior.
Context
This new leadership style implemented within government structure motivates the organization to follow
aspects of Peter Senge’s Fifth Discipline: building a shared vision and team learning, which leads to a
commitment of thinking together, which leads to exemplary leadership such as modeling, creating
challenges, keeping people inspired to achieve the mission, and creating a learning organization.
Trends and Challenges
1. Should public administration be ethnocentric or universal? Should public administration be guided
primarily by theories and principles, for whatever these are worth, or should it adapt itself to
environmental pressures and consequently seek new approaches for responding to the challenges of
the environment?
Principles of administration are universal but their applicability and relevance may yet be conditioned
by the physical and social environment.
Technology aims at making life more convenient and improving the quality of life by introducing new
methods and approaches to service delivery.
The management of the economy, for example, may require new perspectives especially with the
advent of the debt problem, borrowing and repayment schemes.
Trends and Challenges
A development-oriented public administration has to consider as major concerns, productivity, efficiency,
effectiveness, accountability, budgetary deficits and unstable economy, among others. It must address the
problems of poverty, ecology, social justice, inequality, and disproportionate distribution of the goods of
society.
Trends and Challenges
2. A) As more goods are produced for more people =
1. GOODS AND SERVICES
2. DEMANDS AND EXPECTATIONS
Several Problems;
•Energy Crisis (lack of foresight and failure)
•Depletion of Forest Resources (maintaining the ecological balance and instilling environmental
consciousness)
• Unregulated Population Growth (lack of appreciation for quality life more than a religious inspired and
ethical social phenomenon)
• Moral, Mental and Environmental Pollution (enforce ethical standards for social and ecosystems
maintenance)
•Cleaning and Greening (exemplified by the City of Manila and hoped that this will have a spillover effect
throughout Metro Manila and the rest of the country)
Trends and Challenges
3. Administration in Developing Countries is characterized by the following; {by: FERREL HEADY}
•It has an imitative rather than a indigenous pattern characterized by some version of modern western
bureaucratic administration.
• It is deficient in skilled manpower necessary for developmental programs; there is shortage of trained
administrators with management capability, development skills and technical competence.
• There is emphasis on orientation other than production-directed and program oriented goals. It uses the
public service as substitute for a social security program and a means to help solve the unemployment
problem.
Trends and Challenges
•There is wide discrepancy between format and reality as demonstrated by the urge to make things seem
more than what they actually are, resulting in a gap between expectations and realities.
•It has a generous measure of operational autonomy as several groups converge in the bureaucracy. There
are technical experts, professional experts or technocrats and the military, each desirous to formulate and
implement policy decisions on their own respective turfs.
Trends and Challenges
4. There are two basic issues of Public Administration today;