The relation of public management to other management categories

Abstract

In the article the author researches scientific approaches to the definition of essence, attributes and subjects of public and state administration, as well as public management. The correlation of these legal categories among themselves, as well as the management process, is investigated.

The conclusion is made that the term «public management» is not equivalent to public administration and should be viewed from the point of view of public management as an activity that is organized within the public administration system and is related to internal processes of development of management decisions, planning and coordination of the work of these bodies, their information, staffing, documentary support, questions of building the optimal organizational structure, rational distribution of powers.

Proceeding from the foregoing, the author says that public management is a narrower concept than the term «public administration», while its components indicate that this activity first takes place within the public administration, that is, the executive and local authorities self-government, secondly, is aimed at achieving public interest, which is broader than the state interest, thirdly, the adjective «administration» indicates the prevalence of administrative management tools but does not preclude the democratic component in the formulation, negotiation, and publicizing application management decisions. Thus, public management actually acts as management in the executive bodies and executive structures of local self-government bodies.

In our opinion public management is regulated by laws and other normative legal acts system organizing, power and regulatory activities of state authorities and local self-government, which is aimed at streamlining their organizational structure, planning, preparation, development and implementation of managerial decisions, organization of the management apparatus, the implementation of documentary, information, personnel, and psychological support of their daily activities in order to achieve socially useful goals and the creation and operation of the relevant entity of administration.