Public Administration The administration is viewed as the act of effectively managing the matters of a business organization or a state agency. The administration is concerned with the optimum use of information, people, and other resources of the organization in order to attain the ultimate goals of the organization. Public administration is defined as all the processes, individuals, and organizations that are associated with carrying out of laws and other rules that are adopted or issued by legislatures, courts, and executives. In essence, public administration is only concerned with implementing government policy and public policy as defined by the executive branch of government (Boyne, 2002). Any country that has a government will have the concept of public administration. There is no requirement for profit in public administration and this is aimed at ensuring that the public receives the required services as expected. Public policies and programs that are formulated by the state should be implemented in a manner that ensures proper utilization of available resources without overburdening the state. Public administration is mainly concerned with offering services to the general public. The services offered are government services that have little to do with profit making. These are also essential services that the citizens require and they can only receive from state agencies.

Public administration would still continue to offer or perform an activity that is unprofitable and inefficient provided the activity is beneficial to the general public. The key driving factor for public administration is the general well-being of the public. The ultimate beneficiary of public administration is the general public and state. This is because the services and activities are state-sanctioned and there are laws that require the services to be offered. The public sector would still survive even if the agency is using inefficient operations. This is because the agency is backed by the government and it will continue to receive funds even to support its operations. Public administration is governed by laws, traditions, rules, and structural bureaucratic check and balances. This in real sense makes it hard for decisions to be made in the public sector because there are many levels of management that a change has to undergo before it can be approved. Any change in policy or program has to undergo all the required steps of approval and vetting by the various government agencies before it can be passed into law....

Private management is mainly interested in making profits that will help the organization grow and make shareholders happy. Any service that is offered in private management is aimed at increasing the organization’s profit margins. All the policies and programs formulated within the private sector are only for the particular organization and there is no need to have external interference before a policy is implemented. Private administration does not need to follow public policies and is aimed at taking care of the interests of the organization, employees, clients, or partners. While public administration is political in nature, private administration is a business activity that is carried out by private individuals or groups in order to earn a profit for the organization. The activities involved in private administration might be similar to those of public administration. The activities include planning, controlling, coordinating, organizing, implementing programs and policies. Private administration operates under the direction of the market-economic conditions. Therefore, all the activities that are undertaken in private administration are aimed at returning a profit for the organization. If an activity is deemed to be unprofitable to the organization or inefficient it will be eliminated. This is because the activity could result in the company shutting down its operations because of inefficient operations.
For private administration, the ultimate beneficiary is the company itself (Buelens & Van den Broeck, 2007). The only additional or external beneficiaries are the shareholders of the company. In private management, decisions are made faster and there are less bureaucratic structures to prevent a decision from being made quickly. Decision making is less of a hassle and some of the decisions are made on the fly without much deliberation.

Decision Making

Decision making is the act of selecting between two or more courses of action. In public administration decision making is bureaucratic in nature and is politically influenced. The role of public administration is the delivery of services to the public and…