Master of Public Administration

BUREAUCRATIC MANAGEMENT THOUGHT This theory was given by Max Weber. Bureaucracy (a term widely used in govt. organizations) is an administrative system which is designed to accomplish large scale administrative tasks by systematically coordinating the work of many individuals. Max Weber has indentified three types of powers in the organizations: traditional, charismatic and rational-legal. He named rational legal power as bureaucratic power and claimed it to be the ideal type of power in the…

Max Weber descried bureaucracies as, “a type of formal organization constituted to accomplish a specific goal, task, or production outcome in the most efficient manner (Weber, 1947). With that saying, each bureaucracy can be identified by five characteristics: a hierarchical authority structure, specialization (division of labor), written rules, written communications/records, and impersonality/replaceability. Some examples of bureaucracies are, large companies and businesses, organizations, as…

both other people and the political hierarchy helped bring more peace and order to the empire. Meanwhile, Confucius’s beliefs about how the government should treat its citizens were adopted by the ruling class, which led to a strong, yet fair, administration that made China even more powerful. By introducing bureaucracy based off of Confucian teachings, the Han dynasty was able incorporate the philosophy into everyday Chinese life, which resulted in a stronger, more fair…

of good governance principles as listed by the National Development Agency, which include principles such as transparency, accountability, regulatory compliance, professionalism and competency, efficiency and effectiveness, and partnership between public and private sector (Bappenas, 2007). The implementation of good governance on Indonesian state asset management can be seen from the orderliness of government offices in the reports on state asset that…

Public administration concerns implementation of principled direction in government action and public service, with the primary objective of developing appropriate policies and management approaches to influence positive functioning in a government. It involves administration of public programs and translation of political processes into positive welfare benefits for citizens, through studies of government decision-making, analysis of policy, and assessments of approaches that contribute towards…

be adopted, whether public or private. The criticism of the bureaucracy and the rise of the superiority of private management systems in relation to public administration, materialized on a set of fundamental principles: decentralization, deregulation and delegation. 1. Decentralization as a fundamental principle for organizations can acquire creativity and innovation, implying at the same time reducing hierarchical levels. To Harris (2009), this is an essential process as public managers are…

legislative reforms including requiring all government officials to publicly declare their assets (Morrell, 2012). The 2008 Constitution also requires that the government submit the draft budget to the parliament for approval which was rarely made public during the previous regimes (Chêne, 2012). These developments were encouraging but more commitments from the government were needed to convince the people and the international community of its sincerity…

Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Critical Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats by Michael Lipsky was written to explain the importance of the role of public service workers when delivering government services to the public. The involvement of public administration in difficulties that are currently affecting the undeserved and have made the government to take responsibilities on public safety, health and security. Lipsky believed that government workers play a significant role in our society by making…

American Constitution. While the politics/administration dichotomy was the instrument that scholars used to solve the complex issues created by the law of the land. Laurence J. O 'Toole, Jr. (1987) is his article, Doctrines and Developments: Separation of Powers, the Politics-Administration Dichotomy, and the Rise of the Administrative State, contends that the development of the American administrative state was an amalgamation of the politics/administration dichotomy and the constitutional…

Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century discusses a code of ethics for public administrators. Martinez argues that civil servants, public administrators, and non-profit administrators, as with other professionals, must have a standard code of ethics. However, there remains no such code. He contends the importance of a code by explaining that public administrators make decisions with ethical expectations. Martinez argues for five methods to administrative ethics. “Ethics as a…