In the Science of “Muddling Through,” Charles E. Lindblom highlights two distinctive ways—rational-comprehensive (root) method and successive limited comparisons (branch)—for public administrators to implement new policies, values, and procedures that can be used to achieve a common value or goal. The rational comprehensive (root) method uses a means-ends analysis, where public administrators must first undergo an evaluation and empirical analysis process. Under this process public administrators or decision-makers must determine and clearly define “important” individual and organizational values. The next step is to then rank values and alternatives from greatest to least importance based off of what they feel is rational or “good” for the
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Garnett’s Administrative Communication is centered around how to improve communization in organizations and institutions. Garnet also discusses the detrimental effects miscommunication can have on an organization or governmental body. In recent years, communication has become increasingly difficult in an organization and between public officials and citizens for a number of reasons, including a multitude of new methods to communicate, and just a simple lack of communication. Moreover, many public administrators fail to address the importance of communication in their organization or institution. And, communication methods that were previously used have become increasingly outdated as the public becomes less trustworthy of the way they receive correspondence from the government. There are several processes and players that compose the communication process of an organization. First, professional managers, public executives, and external audiences all play a key role in the communication process. All players must be involved in and cooperate in order to have more effective communication and transparency to the …show more content…
Thus, it is important for public administrators to concentrate on improving communication and correspondence methods. The public relies heavily upon governmental and private agencies for information so it is important to monitor it and ensure that the public is receiving balanced and accurate information. This prevents conflict and decreases distrust in the
Garnett’s Administrative Communication is centered around how to improve communization in organizations and institutions. Garnet also discusses the detrimental effects miscommunication can have on an organization or governmental body. In recent years, communication has become increasingly difficult in an organization and between public officials and citizens for a number of reasons, including a multitude of new methods to communicate, and just a simple lack of communication. Moreover, many public administrators fail to address the importance of communication in their organization or institution. And, communication methods that were previously used have become increasingly outdated as the public becomes less trustworthy of the way they receive correspondence from the government. There are several processes and players that compose the communication process of an organization. First, professional managers, public executives, and external audiences all play a key role in the communication process. All players must be involved in and cooperate in order to have more effective communication and transparency to the …show more content…
Thus, it is important for public administrators to concentrate on improving communication and correspondence methods. The public relies heavily upon governmental and private agencies for information so it is important to monitor it and ensure that the public is receiving balanced and accurate information. This prevents conflict and decreases distrust in the