Question Three We are very familiar with the word suffocation and if not, we breathe everyday unless we are dead. We all know what a polythene bag too is, and you can imagine the whole Ghana put in it per how we administer our systems and public lives by those in authority. That is what I mean by a breathing system in unseen polythene bag. In a public system administration, to suffocate the system means to suppress it, stifle innovation and prevent new ways of doing things or improvement over the old systems and rather stick to rigid, bureaucratic and mechanistic ways of administration which are very ineffective and inefficient, and cost ineffective as well per principles of public management and administration. Our system are in unseen polythene bags which is making it very difficult to breathe naturally because no air is penetrating this unseen polythene bag. Our system is choking from population pressures because it has been wrapped in unseen polythene bag by those in authority and controlling it based on their personal and parochial interests. It is being controlled to their advantage and to the disadvantage of majority of Ghanaians who placed them in authority. Whilst some of them lack the knowledge and ideas to bring the needed strategic change that we need to improve upon our already existing systems, some of them have intentionally stifle the system to their advantage and benefiting unduly from it. The system fill their bellies so any attempt to bring a positive change by any right thinking Ghanaian, they will resist it and kill every innovation in their managerial purview just for them to remain powerful in order to control the system. All our systems of management and administration are not responding to efficiency and effectiveness no matter the efforts being put in them accompanied by both technological and financial investments. The end results are mass graduate unemployment, high poverty rates, intensified bribery and corruption, high crime rates and all the negative indexes you can think of as far as this country is concerned. Credit: News Ghana, March 1, 2017 a. Explain three reasons of Weber's ideal bureaucracy that has led to the situation narrated in the case. (Give relevant examples to support your answer, and indicate the sources of information). (9 Marks) b. Identify and explain any two of Webers prescriptions and indicate how neglecting them has contributed to the woes of the bureaucracy in Ghana. (Give relevant examples to support your answer, and indicate the sources of information). (6 Marks) c. Suggest five solutions to help revive the Ghana's ailing public administration system. (5 Marks) Question Three We are very familiar with the word suffocation and if not, we breathe everyday unless we are dead. We all know what a polythene bag too is, and you can imagine the whole Ghana put in it per how we administer our systems and public lives by those in authority. That is what I mean by a breathing system in unseen polythene bag. In a public system administration, to suffocate the system means to suppress it, stifle innovation and prevent new ways of doing things or improvement over the old systems and rather stick to rigid, bureaucratic and mechanistic ways of administration which are very ineffective and inefficient, and cost ineffective as well per principles of public management and administration. Our system are in unseen polythene bags which is making it very difficult to breathe naturally because no air is penetrating this unseen polythene bag. Our system is choking from population pressures because it has been wrapped in unseen polythene bag by those in authority and controlling it based on their personal and parochial interests. It is being controlled to their advantage and to the disadvantage of majority of Ghanaians who placed them in authority. Whilst some of them lack the knowledge and ideas to bring the needed strategic change that we need to improve upon our already existing systems, some of them have intentionally stifle the system to their advantage and benefiting unduly from it. The system fill their bellies so any attempt to bring a positive change by any right thinking Ghanaian, they will resist it and kill every innovation in their managerial purview just for them to remain powerful in order to control the system. All our systems of management and administration are not responding to efficiency and effectiveness no matter the efforts being put in them accompanied by both technological and financial investments. The end results are mass graduate unemployment, high poverty rates, intensified bribery and corruption, high crime rates and all the negative indexes you can think of as far as this country is concerned. Credit: News Ghana, March 1, 2017 a. Explain three reasons of Weber's ideal bureaucracy that has led to the situation narrated in the case. (Give relevant examples to support your answer, and indicate the sources of information). (9 Marks) b. Identify and explain any two of Webers prescriptions and indicate how neglecting them has contributed to the woes of the bureaucracy in Ghana. (Give relevant examples to support your answer, and indicate the sources of information). (6 Marks) c. Suggest five solutions to help revive the Ghana's ailing public administration system
