100. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Public administration is a discipline in transition. In fact, it has always been in continuous movement, but not always in the same direction. Contrary to the heavy, formal, and inflexible image of bureaucracies, public sector bodies in America, Europe, and elsewhere have been in a rapidly intensifying transition since the early 1990s. During the last century, public administration underwent significant changes resulting from crisis, as well as breakthroughs in an ultra dynamic environment. Some 30 years ago, Waldo (1968) noted that these ongoing transformations reflected an identity crisis of a science in formation. They also signaled a struggle for the recognition and legitimacy of pubic administration as an art, a body of knowledge and a profession (Lynn, 1996). It seems that today, at the beginning of the 21st century, the formation of public administration is still unfinished business. it is a subject for debate among academics and practitioners across the world who seek higher and more extensive scientific recognition, more accurate self-definition, and better applicability of the field to rapid changes in modern life. This process presents new challenges for public administration. Perhaps, the most important is to integrate more widely existing knowledge of the social sciences with efficient public action and with quality governmental cooperation. In the coming years public administration will be evaluated by higher stands of theory cohesiveness and by more comprehensive performance indicators rooted in a variety of scientific fields.
To talk of the 'Public' of 'Administration', and of the integration of the two constructs into a useful terrain for study involves promises as well as difficulties. But consensus does exist on at least one issue: the public needs a better bureaucracy. The public also expects good and skillful administrators, familiar with the mysteries of quality services and effective management. Only they can produce better 'public goods' and deliver them to all sectors of society with minimum time and cost. This is a revised version of the ideal type of public administration system applicable to modern times.
The role of the state and its relationship to bureaucracy and to citizens are undergoing substantial transformation, not only in the minds of the people but also in scientific thinking. In a rapidly changing environment, public administration has a major function and new aims that must be clearly recognized.
Q. Identify the correct option among the following statements related to the discipline of Public Administration. (NET March 2023 Shift I)
A.Ā Ā Ā Public expects good and skillful administrator
B.Ā Ā Ā Ā Public expects quality of services
C.Ā Ā Ā Ā Public expects effective management of institution
D.Ā Ā Ā Public wants to continue with the present model of bureaucracy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
