In five pages this paper discusses public organizations in a consideration of how public services are carried out through management and structure. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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as their commercial counterparts. However, the aims and management of public organisation may be seen as very different due to the different aims.
A pubic organisation may be seen as different due to the way it has been set up and funded and the aims. Public organisations do not have the aim
of being profit centres. They are in existence for a particular purpose, these may be a range of goals, from healthcare and welfare to public administration. The organisation will be
there to serve the public, either directly or indirectly. This means the funding does not come from their day to day operations, but will usually come from government, however, some
funds may also emanate from other sources, such as lottery proceeds. The funding of the organisation means that there is also a
need for a higher level of accountability. A private organisation is spending money that is provided by the shareholders or borrowed money from financial institutions, therefore, the level of liability
and accountability may be seen as limited to the shareholders, and also to the liabilities for the repayments of the loans. For the public organisation there is a much broader
accountability aspect. The organisation is spending public money, and as such needs to be accountable to the public for the way in which it is spent. There are many political
and practical demands to ensure that there is value for money. Therefore the level of transparency in the accounting and budgeting as well as practices needs to display ethical and
morally storing behaviour. Public organisations are more than the functions they fulfil, they need to be setting an example to the commercial sector. With a situation of limited resources and