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Gist of Important Articles from IIPA Journal: Efficiency in Administration: Measures Required to Enhance Efficiency in Administration R.D. Sharma: ---

Gist of Important Articles from IIPA Journal

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Efficiency in Administration: Measures Required to Enhance Efficiency in Administration R.D. Sharma

Introduction

Efficiency is a goal as well as a value of any administrative organisation. Organisations whose goals-achieving capacity nears hundred or littleness, can be conveniently termed as efficient. Efficiency is both a characteristic as well as a value or even an ideal to be achieved by an organisation. Those public services and organisations may be bureaucratic one, are bound to be efficient which according to Max Weber are recruited on the basis of ideal-type-model.

Efficiency is a criterion of administrative evaluation. It is essentially criterion of making rational choices. Leonard D. White had used criterion of efficiency in defining public administration.

Any attempt to probe efficiency-an important area of public services, is fraught with innumerable difficulties because the genere of political representative of modern Indian and even the main-mandarins are less enthusiastic towards improving efficiency of the civil services and devise, seriously implement methods of increase it.

Efficiency has been central objective of governmental reform. The reform movement in public administration had emphasised that efficiency had something to do with the effective allocation and control of government expenditures.

Efficiency and Individual Motives: Barnard defines efficiency as “satisfaction of individual motives”. He says it is personal in character. Yet, efficiency scores of all the individual administrators taken together would inform us about efficiency level of the whole group of bureaucrats or civil servants. The efficiency of an organisation is measured in the amount of resources used to produce a unit of out-put. To Herbert A. Simon “efficiency is attainment of maximum values with limited means."

Efficiency in Administration: Efficiency in an administrative system is a value, a goal or a criterion to assess the system. An efficient civil service is quintessence of any government. It lends credence: viability and plausibility to the government of the day.

It is believed that efficiency in governmental administration is hard to define. Efficiency or inefficiency, is often said when agreement or disagreement with particular values is really meant. http://iasexamportal.com/…/gi…/efficiency-in-administration…