POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent De Gournay, Canadian Dairy Commission
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Similarities posdcorb: p planning, o organizing, s staffing, d directing, co cordinating, r reporting, b budgeting. All individuals in public or private sector have these activities in common. In private interest people are very concerned with maximizing profit, opposed to public interest: 2. They also take place in a lot of unprofitable services. Public admin is also less efficient with political consideration ie. elections, duration of appointments. Cabinet solidarity: cabinet solidarity makes decision making take much longer because there must be much more consensus. Need to protect minister there is a need for consistency in program delivery from embarrassment or uncomfortable situations in the hoc re-election. Ministers obviously want to make decisions that facilitate their re- election there is too much concern with being re-elected. Public servants do not change from election to election, in contrast to the united states: 3. Accountability is far more complex in the public sector. Private sector jobs are accountable to far less people: 4.