This document provides an introduction and overview of public administration. It defines public administration as the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline. It presents several definitions of public administration from different scholars. It also outlines some key characteristics of public administration, including that it involves cooperative group efforts in a public setting and covers all three branches of government. Finally, it discusses the scope and importance of public administration as the base of government and an instrument for executing laws and managing public policy objectives.

1. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
 Chapter # 1
 An Introduction To
Public Administration
 M. Arslan Ahmad
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2. INTRODUCTION
 Public administration is the implementation
of government policy and also an academic
discipline.
 The Meaning The word ‘administration’ has been
derived from Latin words ‘ad’ = to and ‘ministiare’ =
serve and ‘Public’ =people or citizens Thus the
word administration means to execute the policy of
government to serve public,

3. DEFINITIONS
 Denhardt: Public Administration is concerned with
the management of public programs
 Wilson: Public Administration is the detailed and
systematic execution of public law (administrative
study is to discover first what government can
properly and successfully do, and how it can do
these proper things with the utmost possible
efficiency and the least possible cost either of
money or of energy)

4. DEFINITIONS
 Fesler and Kettl: Public Administration includes the
shaping of policy on the way up, execution of policy
after it has been made, and as a necessary part of
the execution, decision making about policy matters
on the way down
 Simon et al: In its broadest sense, administration
can be defined as the activities of groups
cooperating to accomplish common goals.

5. CHARACTERISTICS
 a) is a cooperative group efforts in a public setting
 B) covers all the three branches-executive,
legislative and judicial -and their interrelationships;
 C) has an important role in the formulation of public
policy and is thus a part of the political process,

6. CHARACTERISTICS
 Part of executive and govt. branch
 Related with the activities of the state
 Carries out the public policy
 part of the political process

7. SCOPE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
 Narrow Perspective: Only the activities concerned
with the executive branch of government.
 P – stands for Planning
 O – stands for Organization
 S – stands for Staffing
 D – stands for Directing
 CO – stands for co-ordination
 R – stands for Reporting
 B – stands for Budgeting

8. SCOPE
 Broader Perspective:
 Public Administration is detailed and systematic
application of law
 covers all the three branches-executive, legislative and
judicial -and their interrelationships
 Public Administration consist of all those operations
having for their purpose the fulfillment or enforcement
of public policy

9. SCOPE (PREVAILING VIEW)
 1) Administrative theory
 Organizational
 Behavior
 Public personal administration
 2) Applied Administration
 Political Function
 Legislative function
 Financial Function
 Defense function
 Educational function

10.  Social welfare administration
 Economic administration
 Foreign administration
 Local administration

11. ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF PA
 Base of Govt.
 Instrument of change in the society
 Plays vital role in the life of the people
 A instrument for executing laws, policies, programs
 Managing the set objectives in public policy