Sustainable Development for Public Administration : Effective Administrative System of the 21st Century Public Administration

Reinventing the government was big in the early 1980s; post media presentation that echoed how inefficient the government has been. Ever since, the government went through different reorganization processes through the application of different modern management theories, endorsed by the politicians, such as the Hawthorne theory, the Gantt Theory, Mintzberg Management Theory, Theory X and Y, and the Agency Theory – all promise efficient government. However, Ghoshal argued that all these modern management theories are bad theories and they have destroyed the good management practice of a public institution. They were implemented as a trial and error – one fails try another. As a result, the management system is destroyed. Its administrative system is broken. The organization is becoming dysfunctional and it causes a badly divided government. This damaged system makes it easy for theft, fraud, corruption, bribery, grafts, sabotage, espionage, and all kinds of illegal practices. At the same time, the change causes the used to be a professional public institution to become an amateur corporation that is individually managed, personally ruled, and undemocratic governance. This paper discusses the theoretical foundation of the bureaucracy and its analysis, and once this theory is applied in the administrative system of government, it shows how this damage can be remedied theoretically and applicably