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CHAPTER ONE: NATURE OF PUBLIC
PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
• Public service is an ancient institution and During the
earliest period, the functions of the government were
simple and life itself was simple.
• As the complexity of civilization increases, the
activities of government expand which occurs both in
the field of services and in the regulation of private
activities.
• state administration of the modern era takes the form
of public bureaucracy, and administrators were
recruited on the basis of public law, became more
formal.
 Cont’d
• Public administration, which is the management of
governmental affairs or issues at all levels or tiers,
national, regional (state), and local, is a permanent force
in the life of a nation.
• It is possible for a state to exist without a legislature or
an independent judiciary but no state can exist without
administration.
• The three basic and essential components for successful
completion of developmental tasks are men, money and
material.