Nature of Public Administration
There are various discussions on the nature of Public
Administration. Let us have a detailed understanding of it.
1. The Art of Public Administration
Art is a skilful and systematized practice. It comes to a
person partly as a matter of natural endowment and partly from
an effort to learn and master its techniques. There are various
kinds of arts classified according to their media, and subject
matter. Thus we talk of fine arts, useful arts, etc. Public
administration has long been recognized and practised as an
art. Gifted administrators like Kautilya, Akbar, Todarmal,
Bismarck, and Sardar Patel worked wonders with their
administrative skills and were hailed as the greatest artists in
their field by an admiring world.
Public Administration may be called the highest of the Arts, for
the same reasons for which politics was claimed by Aristotle to
be the highest or the Master Science. Administration in the
ultimate analysis is an effort to direct, guide, and integrate
associated human strivings towards some specific ends. The
administration is a really fine art. We usually include among fine
arts sculpture, painting, music, poetry, etc. The administration
has no less but greater claim than these to be recognized as
fine art.
"I work with paints or clay, with a combination of sounds in
music, with a combination of words and ideas in literature,"
says Ordway Tead,
“If these are fine arts, we are certainly entitled to call that labor
also fine art which would bring closer together in purpose the
organized relationship of individuals and groups to each other.
It is indeed an art of the highest order.”
2. The Media of Art of Administration
There are various discussions on the nature of Public
Administration. Let us have a detailed understanding of it.
1. The Art of Public Administration
Art is a skilful and systematized practice. It comes to a
person partly as a matter of natural endowment and partly from
an effort to learn and master its techniques. There are various
kinds of arts classified according to their media, and subject
matter. Thus we talk of fine arts, useful arts, etc. Public
administration has long been recognized and practised as an
art. Gifted administrators like Kautilya, Akbar, Todarmal,
Bismarck, and Sardar Patel worked wonders with their
administrative skills and were hailed as the greatest artists in
their field by an admiring world.
Public Administration may be called the highest of the Arts, for
the same reasons for which politics was claimed by Aristotle to
be the highest or the Master Science. Administration in the
ultimate analysis is an effort to direct, guide, and integrate
associated human strivings towards some specific ends. The
administration is a really fine art. We usually include among fine
arts sculpture, painting, music, poetry, etc. The administration
has no less but greater claim than these to be recognized as
fine art.
"I work with paints or clay, with a combination of sounds in
music, with a combination of words and ideas in literature,"
says Ordway Tead,
“If these are fine arts, we are certainly entitled to call that labor
also fine art which would bring closer together in purpose the
organized relationship of individuals and groups to each other.
It is indeed an art of the highest order.”
2. The Media of Art of Administration
