Question

Public administration may be defined as ____________.
(A) Management of industry
(B) Administration of Public
(C) Management of property
(D) Administration capacity

Answer 1

Hint: Public administration as a specialized academic field deals essentially with the machinery and procedures of government as these are used in the effective performance of government activities.

Complete answer:
Public administration may be defined as the administration of the public. The administration has been defined as a cooperative human effort towards achieving some common goals. Public administration is that species of administration that operates within a specific political setting. It is the means by which the purposes and goals of government are realized or simply the action part of the government.
All definitions seek to narrow down and limit the meaning of objects and in this effort, clarity, and understanding suffer. Being an action and executive field of government, public administration has never had a settled boundary. The activities of the government have expanded and contracted on contextual circumstances. An academic subject seeking to study public administration has to adjust to the shifting boundaries of government in society.
The basic concerns of public administration as a field of study would therefore involve (a) structures of public organizations are formed, readjusted, and reformed, (b) administrative processes denoting the dynamic aspects of the organization such as communication, control, and decision-making, (c) bureaucratic behavior with emphasis on the international and inter-group relationships in organizational settings, and (d) organization- environment interactions covering the meaningful and influential relationships that are found to exist between public administration and its surrounding forces and factors in the environment.

Thus, option (B) is correct.

Note: Public administration is government administration, the focus being specifically on public bureaucracy.