Notes

-A generalist is one who has knowledge of the technique of the processes involved in a factory or a technical
undertaking or in administration but he is not an expert.
-A specialist or an expert is a man whose special training makes him an authority in a particular field.
-The expert is a specialist in knowledge and in action; the administrator must be a generalist in knowledge and in action.
-The instrument of a laissez-faire government at home and a colonial administration in the Empire, the administrative generalist was both a product of and suited to the objectives of a law and order, revenue collecting British government.
-Generalist's functions were to limit the role of government, to promote stability by minimising change, to coordinate the activities of government.
-The use of the specialist in government finds its most vigorous expression in the American Civil Service.The skills needed to administer a vast continent, to develop its natural resources, to promote social and economic growth were specialized skills.
-Each of these systems, of course, makes some efforts to accommodate the rival claims of the generalist and the specialist. But there is a fundamental contrast in Britain the generalist administrator is on top, the specialist is on tap to the generalist, while in the US the specialist is on top while the generalist is on his tap.
-The suitability of each of these models in the context of Indian administrative system will be discussed in this paper.
-analyse the developments which have led to the debate on the specialist versus the generalist in administration
- Largescale industry, division of labour, the headlong pace of development of applied science, the concentration of economic power and the increasing recognition of the responsibility of the State towards the under-privileged have all contributed to determine the character of the modern administrative system.
-The traditional concept of staff is aid to the executive. This is to be done without disturbing the formal
command relationships in hierarchy. Increasing specialisation in the organisation and growing pressure on the top executive have complicated this initially simple concept greatly.
-India is a welfare state with a socialist pattern of society as its basic objective. This means the expansion of state activities to realize these objectives. Due to the extension of the functions of the state and change in the conception of the state the specialists as staff agencies are not content with their advisory functions.
-a developing economy should place less reliance on procedures, rules and regulations and more on speedy work based on expert knowledge in various fields of development.
-A dynamic situation created by the need for speedy, multi-sided development of a country, it is said, requires a change in the principles and methods of administration in such a way that the natural allies of the development process, namely technology and science, get their due.