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Reconstructing the Nature of Principles and Values of Public Administration in Islam

Management and Administrative Sciences Review

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Title Reconstructing the Nature of Principles and Values of Public Administration in Islam
 
Creator Katsina, Aliyu Mukhtar
 
Subject Islam, Prophet Muhammad, Rashidun Caliphs, Medina, Public Administration, Accountability, Public duties
 
Description This article examines the conception and practice of public administration from Islamic perspective. It attempts to achieve this objective through careful identification and discussion of the fundamental values and principles that guided the practice of public administration in the state of Medina under the Prophet and his four immediate successors known as the Caliphs. Further analysis of these fundamental principles and values of public administration shows that they have become, in modern time, the standard indicators of assessing the effectiveness or otherwise of a public organization. By focusing attention on the practices that obtained in the early state of Medina under the leadership of the Prophet (SAW) and the Rashidun Caliphs, it is pointed that public administration, in that period, was not only effective, efficient, and responsive, but was also cost-effective and anchored on the principles of new-managerialism which many states in modern times are presently attempting to adopt. Consequently, modern societies have a lot to learn from the lessons of that period. 
 
Publisher Academy of Business & Scientific Research
 
Date 2015-01-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/masr/article/view/404
 
Source Management and Administrative Sciences Review; Vol 4 No 1 (2015): January; 112-119
2308-1368
2310-872X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/masr/article/view/404/422
 
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