Public Management: Reconciling The Past and Realigning With The Future

Abstract

Public Management can be defined as an organized enterprise that pursues public goals to serve the common needs of society. That definition, is certainly abstract and nondescript and yet public management affect our lives in many ways. Public management operates at various levels, the federal, state and local level covering all sectors such as economy, health, education, security, international relations etc . Public management is essentially an advisor to the government in policy formulations and acts as an agent to execute those policies - i.e. providing public services . However, public management has no monopoly in its role. Some public services can be provided by other sectors such as private companies, non-governmental organizations, civic organizations and individuals.