PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

THEORIES AND
LINKAGES
JASMIN P. DAQUIZ
Major in Public Management
"Public management" is an approach to
government administration and non-profit
administration that resembles or draws on
private-sector management
and business techniques and approaches.
 Woodrow Wilson

In the United States of America, Woodrow Wilson is considered the

father of public administration, he advocated four concepts:

• Separation of politics and administration

• Comparative analysis of political and private organizations
• Improving efficiency with business-like practices and attitudes
toward daily operations
• Improving the effectiveness of public service through management
and by training civil servants, merit-based assessment
 Frederick W. Taylor

Traditional management theory has its origins with Frederick W. Taylor.

Taylor's approach is often referred to as Taylor's Principles or Taylorism.

• Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a

scientific study of the tasks.
• Scientifically select, train, and develop each employee rather than
passively leaving them to train themselves.
• Provide "detailed instruction and supervision of each worker in the
performance of that worker's discrete task"
• Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that
the managers apply scientific management principles to planning
the work and the workers actually perform the tasks.
 Luther Gulick

Luther Gulick developed a comprehensive, generic

theory of organization that emphasized the
scientific method, efficiency, professionalism,
structural reform, and executive control. Gulick
summarized the duties of administrators with an
acronym; POSDCORB, which stands for planning,
organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating,
reporting, and budgeting.
 Chester Barnard

He identified and set forth the Acceptance

Theory of Authority which discussed that
authority is more about those that accept the
authority of another over others than it is in
naming an authoritative person and hence
the attention given.
 Evolution of Management
Theory

The 1950’s through 1970’s of management

theory was primarily comprised of
developing and testing middle-range
theories like group, role and communication
theories. This comprised the guts of public
administration theory originating in business
management.
 Theory X

Theory X is based on assumptions

regarding the typical worker. This
management style assumes that the typical
worker has little ambition, avoids
responsibility, and is individual-goal oriented.
 Theory Y

Theory Y managers assume employees are

internally motivated, enjoy their job, and
work to better themselves without a direct
reward in return. These managers view their
employees as one of the most valuable
assets to the company, driving the internal
workings of the corporation.
 Group Theory

Group (usually organizational theory) Theory

in classical management control is exercised
by policy, rules, regulations and oversight. In
group theory, the effective group will develop
shared goals and values, norms behavior,
customs, and traditions
 Role Theory

Role Theory suggests that each office or

position is understood to be rational and
defined in its relationship to others and the
organization as a whole and often to the
organization’s purposes. Role Theory
studies people in common roles and
measures persisting patterns between
persons in those roles inside and outside the
organization.
 Communication Theory

Communication Theory interacts with public

management through efficacy of
communication. It is a mix of cybernetics,
linguistics, and social psychology.
 New Public Management

New Public Management is the business

sector’s gift to public administration. It calls
for a qualitative dynamic, in clear contrast to
the traditional public administration model,
typically characterized by a lack of flexibility
and focused on process and procedure
rather than goals and results.
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