Public Administration: A Multidisciplinary Field and Key Aspects

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.

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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