Scope of administration

Public administration is an applied social science that is always changing. It is still going through an evolutionary stage. Both traditional and modern perspectives offer a fairly steady understanding of the scope of public administration, with traditional writers limiting their analysis to the executive branch of government alone.

In the context of public administration, the scope refers to the range of activities and responsibilities involved in managing public resources and implementing government policies. This includes planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling public agencies and programs.

Modern view expanded to include the legislative, executive, and judicial parts of government. By the school, he meant the primary focus of public administration as a discipline and an activity.

as an activity

Luther Gulick has given the elements of administration as an activity in the acronym.

POSDCORB

P—— planning—— which is based on the idea of outlining or a framework

O—— organizing—- to organize a structure which can actually take up the responsibility

S——- staffing ——creating a certain set of staff who are going to execute

D—— directing—- directing will be given by the superior to implement

CO—- coordinating—- do you understand each others need corelation and coordination between superior and subordinate

B— budgeting—— it is fiscal planning

as a subject matter

Study not only the techniques but the concerns

Of the administration. subject oriented rather than technique oriented. POSDCORB and subject matter view are complementary to each other. It is as reaction to the POSDCORB perspective.