Private and Public Administrstion Dichotomy

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Critically discuss private and public administration dichotomy in Zambia. The subject of private and public administration dichotomy has been a source of great intellectual debate among many comparative scholars. The interrelations that exist between the two disciplines of administration being private administration and public administration have fueled the debate where one group of thinkers like Follett and fayol side with the notion that administration as a whole is one entity that cannot be dissected or divided thus the need to collaborate the two disciplines. In understanding the nature of the task of critically discussing the private and public dichotomy in Zambia, the terms public, private and dichotomy will be explained and then a brief account of the dichotomy that exists between private and public administration will be given. The term dichotomy is used to refer to the distinguishing elements of factors that render two ideas or sects different from each other. Public is a term used to refer to that “of people as a whole” and private could be used to mean that of individuals, and not a whole. Public administration encompasses the individuals and processes that carry out laws, rules, and regulations that are issued by legislatures or other elected officials. Private administration refers to the individuals and processes that carry out the manufacturing, marketing, retailing, and providing of goods and services in exchange for payment. The first exploration of the private and public administration dichotomy is credited to Woodrow Wilson who in his publication “the study of administration (1887)” made ground breaking distinctions between private and public administration. He had acknowledged that although the private and public administrations had several common features, they were dichotomous. There are several factors that distinguish private and

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