POLS 2250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Profit Maximization, Environmental Protection, Human Resource Management
28 Dec 2015
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Following ww2, enormous expansion in activities of canadian governments. Two major areas of government activities: provision of services & enforcement of regulations. Study and practice of the tasks associated with the conduct of the administrative state. Use of managerial, political, and legal theories and processes to fulfill legislative, executive, and judicial governmental mandates for the provision of regulatory and service functions for the society as a whole or for some segments of it. Field of practice (or occupation) and field of study (or discipline) System of authority, people, offices, and methods (organizational form) that government uses to achieve its objectives. It is the means by which the practice of public administration is largely carried on. Private administration: ultimately, the vast scope and complexity of government activities and the political environment within which these activities are conducted set apart these two. Overall mission of public administration is service to the public (whereas primary existence of private administration is profit)
