Professional Public Administration: A Synthesis of an Inchoate Concept

• Other Authors: Heilman, Joseph Christian (author)
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Florida Atlantic University
• Subjects: Public administration > Management.; Public administration > Moral and ethical aspects.; Grounded theory.; Motivation (Psychology)
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004734; http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004734

The term profession is found throughout the scholarly literature; despite frequent use of the term, there exists little or no means of providing a common conception of the term. Consequently, calls for increasing professionalization of public administration appear to be premature. Therefore, this dissertation utilizes inductive research to generate theory, which synthesizes the inchoate concept of the professional public administrator. The motivation to pursue this line of inquiry stems from a personal need to weigh in on the perennial debate about what skills, knowledge, and information should be communicated to future generations of public administration thinkers and practitioners. To that end, this research will provide a theoretical framework grounded in the literature, which federates the term professional and the professional concept in such a way that purposeful debates can be had. It is, as will be shown, an attempt to link understanding and interpretation. === Includes bibliography. === Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. === FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection