Public administration is like any other administration which is carried out in public Before we dwell deeper into understanding public administration it would be beneficial to try and see how different authors have tried to define what administration A complete definition for public administration however is difficult to arrive at due to the sheer number of tasks that fall under Some academicians argue that all the government related work falls into this category while other choose to argue that only the executive aspect of government functioning comprises of public The demand for unified national services， the conflicting interests between the various economic sections of the society and with global migration and subsequently globalization; the protection of the interests of the multi-ethnic groups of the society have kept the public administrators Administration matters so much because it is not enough to make policies and laws on The interpretation and translation of those policies and laws into actions and carrying them out is the difficult The public administrators therefore have to play an important role in running the government as The advent of the modern welfare state itself has added， to the changing approach to public The kind of activities and sphere of works have never been more varied and dynamic and there has been a never before interest in actually improving the efficiency of the The expansion of public sector into industrial enterprises has been into practice for quite some time， a little over half a century The public sector organizations in order to function efficiently are borrowing heavily from the business knowledge， administration and process orientation of the private However， there still remains a considerable difference between these two administrative The term new public management was coined by scholars from UK and Australia， who were working in the in the areas of public Now， the origin of this new term was to propose a new point of view towards the organizational design in the public sector， however after a decade， the meaning of this term in discussions and debates became Some scholars choose to define it as the introduction of new institutional economics to public management and some used it to refer to pattern changes in policy Before we make an effort to further understand the various aspects of New Public Management， let us see how it is different from the traditional public The new public management which emerged in the 1980s represented an attempt to make the public sector more businesslike and to improve the efficiency of the Government borrowed ideas and management models from the private It emphasized the centrality of citizens who were the recipient of the services or customers to the public
