PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN GENERAL

-Is like any other administration which is carried but in public interest.

-According to L.D. White,

Public Administration consist of all operations having for their purpose the
fulfillment or enforcement of public policy.

-is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline

that studies this implementation for working in public service.
• The North American Industry Classification System definition of the Public
Administration (NAICS 91) sector states that public administration "...
comprises establishments primarily engaged in activities of a governmental
nature, that is, the enactment and judicial interpretation of laws and their
pursuant regulations, and the administration of programs based on them".
This includes "Legislative activities, taxation, national defense, public order
and safety, immigration services, foreign affairs and international assistance,
and the administration of government programs are activities that are purely
governmental in nature".
PURPOSE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• The moral purpose of public administration, implicit in its acceptance of its
role, is the maximization of the opportunities of the public to satisfy its wants.

• Planning - Legislators are chiefly responsible for bringing new laws and policies
to their system. Their administrators are the professionals who handle the
detailed planning process before implementing a new program.

• Coordination - A lot is often made of the power of inter-departmental

cooperation. Mayors’ offices tout the value of working closely with governors’
offices, and local law enforcement working with state and federal law
enforcement, and so on. The reality behind inter-departmental cooperation is
communication between each department’s respective public administrators.
• Advisory Value - There are many levels of public administration work. The
field starts at the most basic levels of public service, such as in DMV offices,
but it reaches to the highest echelons of government. Elected officials seek
out policy experts to act as their advisors, meaning that public administration
professionals are often the people behind some of the biggest decisions in
public policy enacted by government executives and legislators.

• Efficiency and Sustainability - Because public administrators are the people on

the ground, so to speak, they have the most in-depth understanding of where
waste and inefficiency occur in a given department. Especially in tough
economic times and with a growing concern for environmental responsibility,
administrators are the watchdogs who identify and eliminate waste,
corruption, and unsustainable practices in government offices and programs.
It’s a bottom-up responsibility that makes government more efficient from
within.
• Non- Profit Viability - Public administration expertise isn’t just limited to
government work. Non-profit organizations (NPO) that focus on policy-related
causes, need public policy experts on staff who understand how government
works so they can support those causes. Public administrators in the non-
profit sphere are advisors to NPO managers, and liaisons to government
officials, to make sure the organization’s efforts work hand-in-hand with
legislators and executives. Without PAs, non-profits would often be stuck in an
uphill battle against the complexities of public policy.
THEORY AND PRACTICES OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
• The discipline of public administration in the Philippines has been undergoing
its version of an ‘identity crisis’ over the past decade. This crisis has been
manifested in four areas: (1) the inordinate influence of mostly American
public administration theories and concepts upon Philippines public
administration has led Filipino academics in the early to mid-1980s to ask the
question ‘is there a Philippine public administration?’; (2) the perceived
disconnect between theories of public administration as taught in schools and
the realities in the outside world has raised questions of the relevance of the
discipline to real world challenges; (3) the continued frustration over the
perception that in spite of many public administration and governance
reforms, the Philippines continues to be among the more corrupt nations in
the region; and (4) the recent fascination of academics in other disciplines,
especially economists, that ‘institutions matter’, has led some public
administration scholars to argue that their discipline has been arguing
precisely the same point since the 1950s.