Public Administration: A Multidisciplinary Field and Key Aspects

This presentation covers the basics of public administration, including its multidisciplinary nature, code of ethics, intergovernmental relationships, budgeting methods, financial accountability, and social equality policies. It also discusses initiatives to resolve multiculturalism dilemmas at the workplace and reveals the trends that produce effective public organizations.

Public administration

A Multidisciplinary Field
Public administrative discipline
 Public administration is basically the execution of
government policies
 It is also an academic discipline which studies the
execution and prepares the civil servants for working
in public services (Dahl, 2018)
 The fields of discipline includes, human resources,
organisational theory, policy analysis, budgeting,
statistics and ethics.
 It also includes heads of local, state and federal levels
like census managers, municipal budget directors,
state mental health directors and cabinet secretaries.

Cont..
Types of non profit organisation
 Private foundations
 Public charitable organisation
 Quasi non profit organisation
Functions of non profit organisation
 Charity and social welfare
 Labour organisation
 Charitable activities

Code of ethics in the public administration field
Four reasons of having code of ethics in public institutions are :
It provides with the instructive and timely interaction with the
community
The code of ethics builds a standards of professionalism within
the co workers of public sector (Rohr, 2017)
It indicates the employees that the public institution is a
responsible sector
It even enhances the accountability and transparency of the
public sector

Intergovernmental collaborative networks
Intergovernmental relationships are mainly the interacting
network of the public institutions at local, national and provincial
levels.
It enables the governmental of different political systems to
interact and develop effective relations and benefits to the public.
It is critical in public services as it helps in holding the system
together and reduces the risks of any conflicts within the political
systems (Henry, 2017).
For example of the intergovernmental relationship is the United
Nations which is an intergovernmental agency.

Management styles for today’s workforce
Importance of management styles in problem solving strategies are:
The management styles helps in leading the employees to deal
with the problems and acquire proper solutions.
It enables the workforce to identify the problem and collect ideas
for executing the strategies for solving the issues
It establishes a positive environment and attitude of employees
towards the problems and make them resolve it effectively
Management style even helps in using real experiences of
employees or other authority while developing the problem
solving strategies

Solving budget strategies for public/non profit
organisation
Types of budgeting methods:
Zero based budgeting
Incremental budgeting
Priority based budgeting (Benade and et al, 2017)
Resource restricted budgeting and
Contingency budgeting

Financial accountability and agency
transparency
The major reasons of the accountability of public agencies to the
citizen are:
It is important as it enables trust of public in government and also
contributes in maintaining a healthy democracy.
It establishes a lawfulness within the public agencies and comply
them to use the funds efficiently
Being accountable and transparent also provides the citizen with
the idea of where the public fund is been used (Braun, 2018).
This enhances the faithfulness and loyalty within the citizens and
the public agencies both.

Social equality and discrimination policies
Initiatives to resolve multiculturalism and gender equity at
workplace:
Providing diversity training to workforce
Establish effective communication within all
Flexible work environment must be established
Proper roles and responsibility must be delegated on the basis of
skills and knowledge (Alkadry, Blessett and Patterson, 2017)
Ensure effective employee engagement within the workplace

Future trend in public administration
Major trends producing public organisations:
Technological trends
Personalisation of services
Flexible Public Sector rather than any Machine
Bureaucracies
Affordable government

Conclusion
The presentation had reflected the basics of public
administration and its related aspects
It had presented the discussions over various key points such
as need of code of ethics in public institutions, importance of
intergovernmental relationship, budgeting methods and
motives of accountability of public agencies to citizens.
It has covered the initiatives to be takes towards the
resolution of multiculturalism dilemmas at the workplace
It even revealed the trends that produce effective public
organisations.

References
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Braun, D. (2018). Fiscal policies in federal states. Routledge.
Dahl, R. A. (2018). The science of public administration: Three problems.
In Democracy, bureaucracy, and the study of administration (pp. 60-76).
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Henry, N. (2017). Public administration and public affairs. Routledge.
Rohr, J. (2017). Ethics for bureaucrats: An essay on law and values.
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