Theoretical and Conceptual Knowledge - Public/Business Administration

Running Head : Business Administration and Public Administration in Context

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Public Administration as a discipline in Context

World over , the concept of public administration has been with us as far as from the time when there existed governments . There has always been demand for public administrators as long as Emperors , rulers or Kings sought the services of architects , treasurers and pages to carry out the day to day government business . The birth of the idea of public administration can be

attributed to the fact that it is closely related to the politics in any given society across the globe . Hence , in most cases , it has been closely linked to the politics . Boje (2008 , argues that indeed public administration is usually brought to the fore through the translation of politics in relation to the government of the day . In this regard , it usually results to the translation of reality from politics to reality . Therefore , a lot of emphasis is normally placed on the reality as is perceived on daily basis by the citizens of the government of the day . In a nutshell , public administration is interlinked with the concept of public employee as it has been put forward by Box (2003 ) and Milakovich and George ( 2008 . Against this backdrop , a public employee is in otherwise a public administrator . In this regard , such administrators are indeed public servants who are charged with the duty of attending to the needs of a public at all the...