Limitiations on Administrator’s Discretion with Regard to Responsiveness and Efficiancy

Explain the Limitations on Administrator’s Discretion with Regard to Responsiveness and Efficiency.

Public administrators face many obstacles and roadblocks in order to efficiently run their agencies. Sometimes, the legislative laws, or rules they have to abide by need to be altered, or utilized in a fashion to better maintain the everyday need of the agency. In order to make sure that the administrator is using discretion that follows the laws of the this country, objective responsibility, subjective responsibility and representative bureaucracy all play a role.

Objective responsibility is the when the legislation limits the efforts of administrators with careful and specific measures. At first glance, it would seem that this method would be ineffective because of the scrutinization the administration would be under. However, a stream of democracy must also be incorporated within this responsibility.

Subjective responsibility has to do with the teaching of public administration to students who may become government administrators. Ethical issues that students may face when they become involved with agencies are heavily introduced. This method is used to accommodate the growing amount of people wanting to enter the public administration field so they will have sufficient training in assuring responsiveness.

Representative bureaucracy is basically