Kanak's Public Administration

17/06/2023

CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ..instead of delegation, we need participation.

Participation is the gold mine of motivation as it gives empowerment, a sense of ownership. When we own something, we take responsibility and give our best. Most leaders give participation at the ex*****on level not in the decision making process.
There are various levels of decision making and every level can have this level of participation. A leader needs to sit together with the employee and make the decision regarding goal, make him/her own it and you will be amazed with the results. This is how participation and empowerment have been defined across all Human Development Report -
a) participation at decision making
b) participation at ex*****on
c) participation at evaluation

Only then it is true EMPOWERMENT which a CREATIVE LEADER can do.

19/03/2020

Covid 19 and Public Administration Theories
Good Governance concept in this light

24/11/2016

https://kanakkiran.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/anti-development/

Development administration began in 1950’s and till 1960’s it was the heyday of development administration. However late 1970’s onward ,shadow of doubt for development…

24/11/2016

Development to be successful has to be-
1)Participatory
2)Bottom up
3)Indigenous

Imitation of models from anywhere and superimposed in another country will not be successful.
Like an ailing body is in dire need of kidney transplant ,but still the donors kidney has to match with the body system of the receiver, else it will fail.

All models of development has to be indigenous.

23/11/2016

Participatory Governance is Good Governance!
What is Participatory Governance in the true sense of the term-
1)participation in MAKING the policy
2)participation in IMPLEMENTING the policy
3)participation in EVALUATING the policy.
This was the true definition of Participation given by the UNDP report .

If participation is only at evaluation,it is a farce not real participation.

22/11/2016

Demonitisation in India through the lens of the theories of Public administration.

It goes against three concepts-

1)Maslow's Need Theory-
The safety and security need as it is,is not taken care of in the developing countries.

Overnight such demonetisation happens and this further aggravates a sense of insecurity.

Saving for what..anything can be demonitised any moment.

Sense of insecurity.This is not good governance.

2) Policy is made by one man sitting in his office ,hence it lacks ground reality.

Policy in good governance is bottom up,involvement of people.

This policy affects billions of people but it lacks human touch.

Overnight policy change..and no vision of ground reality is there.Millions of people are thrown in a state of panic-
-whose near and dear ones are in Hospitals,in ICU's
-whose daughter is to be married next day.
-someone's cremation is to be done and they don't have money in hand, due to this move.

Endless list, which this policy did not take into consideration.

3)Corruption needs multi pronged strategy.
Also black money is not only in cash, it's invested some where else.

So how does it really help??

Corruption will not end, now bribes will be in 2000 notes.
Justice system,value system needs to be changed.A fear of law has to be created.
Human Development Report 2002 had very rightly said-

Reason for corruption are-
Loopholes and scope for it
Return from it in terms of profit
Lack of fear

The corrupt see a scope for it,then they calculate the profit from it via a vis the punishment for it.

There is always a likelihood of huge profit and going scotfree, with no punishment at all.

This is a huge motivation for corruption.

Demonetisation does not address this issue.

Whatever is stated above is purely from the theories of public administration.
Please do not add political colour to it for being for or anti the PM.
Thanks

14/02/2015

this subject can be mastered in few months but with a right approach..."WINNERS DONT DO DIFFERENT THINGS,THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY"
everyone is reading the same books and notes yet you score differently.

14/02/2015

Public administration is one subject which is very conceptual and requires understanding rather than just mugging up.its very easy to score if you know the concepts and really hard if you have a "parrot" way of doing things.it does not require you to be a PhD scholar of public administration but just basic understanding of the concepts and words.

06/03/2013

notification for 2013 syllabus comes from upsc

12/09/2012

check if u r also committing d same blunders....special DON'Ts-
1)no Indian administration example to be quoted in paper 1
2)not to leave any part of the question unattended..each word needs to be handled
3)no short forms like pub adm,govt,imp,etc
4)not being excessively critical of Indian administration...take a balanced view...have come a long way,yet a long way to go.

12/09/2012

few reasons why u loose marks in mains-
1)students write what they want to write and not what is asked in the question.
2)most of the students with history and public administration optionals...bring in too much of historical background in every answer and you loose marks for it.it becomes digression and is not impressive.
3)even in short answers they give british period,post independence and then LPG context....even if question was on LPG context....come straight to point and then only you will score.
4)writing is not legible,scribbling etc
5)no underlining done of key words

30/08/2012

NEW PUBLIC SERVICE.....Seven Principles given by Denhardt and Denhardt are as follows-
1)serve rather than steer
2)public interest is the aim not the by-product
3)think strategically and democratically
4)serve citizens not customers
5)accountability isn't simple
6)value people not just productivity
7)value citizenship and public service above entrepreneurship