State
Administration
M. Andrienko, Cand. Sc.
(Kyiv)
SUBSTANTIATING THE APPROACH
TO DETERMINATION OF THE TERM “PRINCIPLE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE FIELD
OF FIRE SAFETY”
The results of the analysis of the literary sources on public
administration indicate the ongoing discussion on finding a single approach to
determine principles of public administration, which requires, firstly,
clarifying the substantive merits of the term “principles of public administration”,
and then transiting to its transformation into professional plane of fire
safety.
The issues of investigation of principles of public administration are reflected in the works of national and foreign specialists, namely, V. Averianov, O. Aliokhin, H. Atamanchuk, V. Afanasiev, V. Bakumenko, M. Weber, B. Kurashvili, A. Maslow, P. Lebedev, N. Nyzhnyk, V. Rapoport, V. Tron, V. Tsvetkova, V. Chirkin, O. Shaptala, etc.
While exploring meaningful burden of the principle of public
administration, H. Atamanchuk believed that the principle of public
administration was a pattern, relation or correlation of socio-political nature
and other elements of public administration (of the system of ontological
elements), which are expressed in a particular scientific statement, enforced
mostly by the law and used in course of theoretical and practical activity of
managerial stuff [1]. B. Gurne emphasized that the principles should be
formulated in the form of appropriate rules, which are fundamental for the implementation
of the objective laws of social and state development [2]. The team of
Ukrainian authors, in their work “Public Administration”, agreed
with the definition, which actually rewords a minor terminological inaccuracy
by H. Atamanchuk [3]. Similar view is
shared by V. Malynovskyi, who, in his work under the same name – “Public
Administration”, proposed to take principles of public administration as
“fundamental truths, positive laws, governing concepts, basic provisions, codes
of conduct, which reflect the laws of development of managerial relations,
defined as specific academic statement, enforced mainly in the legal form and
through which the public administration apparatus is built and operated” [4].
N. Meltiukhova, in her
article “Laws and Principles of Public Administration”, drew attention to the
terminological inaccuracy by H. Atamanchuk [5].
An approach to determination of principles of public administration in
the plane of command and control, where the principles of command and control
are understood as the most common, basic rules and guidelines to be considered
and implemented in practice of command and control at all levels and which are
drawn from life by exploring essential connections and relations of various
aspects of management [6], is of special interest.
In some
Western countries, the principles are defined as a set of rules, processes and
codes of conduct relating to the method of implementation of powers of
authority, especially to the issues of ensuring their transparency, public involvement,
accountability, effectiveness and coordination of actions.
The analysis of works on various approaches to define the essence of
the concept of “principles of public administration”, together with the
well-known classical approaches by the famous schools of “scientific
management” (F. Taylor, G. Emerson, H. Ford, etc.) and
“administration” (H. Fayol), allows concluding that principles of public
administration incorporate the basic initial theoretical principles and rules,
which reflect adequately the objective laws of social and state existence and
development while integrating the most significant substantive components of
public administration.
When
determining the principles of public administration to perform management
activities in the field of fire safety, it is necessary, to our opinion, to
define their essence and the object of management at first, and to identify the
subject of management afterwards. This will allow, first of all, defining the
content of the principles of public administration in the field of fire safety
and implementing systematic representation of components of the object of
management. The feasibility of this approach is predetermined, firstly, by
global practices.
Taking
into account the aforesaid definition, it is suggested to consider the principles of public administration in
the field of fire safety as the basic theoretical propositions and rules,
which reflect adequately the objective laws of existence and development of
fire safety while integrating the most significant integral components of the
effective public administration in the aforementioned field.
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