Organisation Changes and Personnel Management for Development Administration
| Author | P.R. Dubhashi |
| DOI | 10.1177/002085238004600205 |
| Date | 01 June 1980 |
| Published date | 01 June 1980 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Organisation
Changes
and
Personnel
Management
for
Development
Administration
by
P.R.
DUBHASHI
1.
Development
administration
is
a
multi-
dimensional
concept
since
development
itself
is
multi-dimensional
in
nature.
It
implies
a
total
transformation
of
the
traditional
backward
economy
of
an
under-developed
country
into
a
modem
progressive
economy
with
a
view
to
raising
the
levels
of
living
of
the
masses
of
people.
Such
a
total
transformation
of
the
economy
can
be
brought
about
through
the
mobilisation
of
the natural
and
manpower
re-
sources
of
a
country
for
building
up
the
infra-
structure
of
development,
modernisation
of
agriculture
and
economic
and
industrial
divers-
ification.
2.
Each
of these
components
of
develop-
ment
is
itself
multi-dimensional
in
character.
Thus
building
of
infrastructure
includes
con-
struction
of
a
network
of
communication
and
transport,
installation
of
irrigation
and
power
projects,
setting
up
of
a
network
of
electrifica-
tion
and
comprehensive
provision
of
health
and
educational
facilities.
Modemisation
of
agri-
culture
requires
agricultural
research
and
ex-
tension for
raising
the
technological
standards
of
agriculture,
arrangements
for
the
supply
of
essential
agricultural
inputs
like
seeds,
fertil-
izers
and
insecticides,
provision
of
finance
and
credit
to
serve
as
working
capital
and
invest-
ment
in
agriculture
and
finally,
provision
of
proper
marketing
and
processing
facilities
to
ensure
adequate
return
to
the
agriculturists.
It
is
only
through
a
package
of
these
services
that
it
would
be
possible
to
raise
agricultural
production
and
productivity.
Industrial
div-
ersification
is
not
possible
without
the
promo-
tion
of
rural
enterprises,
resuscitating
of
tradi-
tional
industries
and
deepening
and
widening
of
industrial
enterprises.
The
underdeveloped
economy
consists
predominantly
of
the
primary
sector
occupations
viz.
agriculture
and
allied
occupations
while
a
developed
economy
has
a
well
developed
secondary
and
tertiary
sector
with
not
more
than
five
to
ten
percent
of
the
manpower
of
the
country
engaged
in
agricul-
ture.
Development
also
involves
a
process
of
urbanisation
since
cities .and
towns
emerge
as
the
growth
centres
of
the
economy.
Thus
dev-
elopment
involves
a
root
and
branch
change
of
the
economy
and
the
society.
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* *
3.
Such
a
fundamental
change
cannot
be
a
hothouse
growth.
It
spreads
out
over
several
decades.
For
example,
the
Industrial
Revolu-
tion
in
Great
Britain
was
spread
over
sixty
years
from
1760
to
1820.
The
modernisation
of
the
Japanese
economy
started
as
far
back
as
1868,
the
year
of
Meiji
restoration.
How-
ever,
the
newly
emerging
countries
of
Asia
wish
to
telescope
the
growth
of
a
century
into
a
few
decades.
They
cannot,
therefore,
afford
to
have
a
growth
process
taking
place
at
a
.slow
pace
in
the
framework
of
a
laissez-faire
economy.
The
State
in
the
under-developed
countries
has
to
play
an
important
and
leading
role
to
initiate,
promote
and
accelerate
the
pro-
cess
of
economic
growth.
4.
What
is
desirable
is,
however,
different
from
what
is
possible.
As
these
developing
countries
emerged
to
freedom
they
had
a
state
which
was
called
only
a
police
state
or a
night-
watchman
state
whose
administrative
apparatus
was
expected
to
deal
in
the
main
with
the
problems
of
law
and
order
and
the
task
of
collection
of
revenues
and
dues
of the
State.
The
State
was
concerned
only
to
a
very
limited
extent
with
what
were
called
the
nation
building
activities.
However,
when
the
State
is
called
upon
to
perform
the
immense
tasks
of
economic
development
briefly
mentioned
above,
it
be-
comes
necessary
to
bring
about
a
total
trans-
formation
of
the
traditional
administrative
ap-
paratus
which
was
good
enough
for
the
erst-
while
colonial
law
and
order
state.
It
is
nec-
essary
to
analyse
the
implications
of
the ad-
ministrative
transformation
required
in
the
wake
of
the
new
responsibilities
assumed
by
the
State.
The
traditional
administrative
apparatus
has
to
give
way
to
a
much
more
expanded
and
diversified
administrative
apparatus
of
the
&dquo; development
state &dquo;
or
the
&dquo; welfare
state &dquo;.
We
may
pin-point
some
of
the
organisational
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