Public administration- A critique of responsibility dimensions

Administration has been evolving to multiple forms, cutting across public and private spaces. Being closer to the lives of people in many ways, public administration has always been subject to normative enquiries on improvements. In the contemporary world of challenges and opportunities, moved by state and non state actors, public administration is on the searches for its own identity. It has been on technical as well as ethical searches for refinements of methods and practices. All along this course, it has also been rediscovering many dimensions within. Responsibility falls in this line. The concept of responsibility is central to the motives and character of public administration. Responsibility runs through all conceptions on public administration. It is integral to genuine practices too. Both efficiency and ethical orientations hold responsibility as significant. Hence public administration can be perceived in terms of the responsibility dimensions within. Theoretical and empirical reflections on responsibility hold several complexities, which could be arranged in orderly discourses for further analytical extensions and improvements. Thoughts in this line directed this paper to its central theme.