Attitudes Towards Foreign Administration Models in the Process of Reforms of the Government Administration in Interwar Poland (1918–1939)

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Attitudes Towards Foreign Administration Models in the Process of Reforms of the Government Administration in Interwar Poland (1918–1939)

Journal Title: Journal of Intercultural Management - Year 2010, Vol 2, Issue 2

Abstract

The paper is aimed at presenting inspirations used by Polish people in the course of thepublic administration reforms carried out in Poland in the interwar period. The views ofthree groups expressing their opinions about foreign models in the context of the publicadministration reforms were presented against a historical background coloured bythe coup d’état by Józef Piłsudski, the difficult situation of the state budget due to theeconomic crisis of the 1930s and the increase of duties to be performed by the state. Thethree groups consisted of (1) the promoters of the principles of scientific management to beapplied to the government administration, (2) higher officers of the Ministry of InternalAffairs who prepared the reform of the administration and (3) civil servants associatedin the Association of Civil Servants. Differences in the attitudes towards foreign models,as presented by each of the groups, were briefly described in the paper, as a result ofsearch of a model that could ensure an increased efficiency of the administration andthus satisfy the requirements of the first two groups mentioned above, and that couldsecure professional and material position of the third group, as well.

Authors and Affiliations

Piotr Górski

Keywords

Foreign Administration Models

EP ID EP53382
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