Organizational culture, institutional and administrative capacities. Reflection on the model of public administration, public management and governance

Abstract

This paper reflects on the elements of organizational culture resulting from the coexistence of the traditional model of public administration and prescriptions of contemporary models such as the new managerialism and governance. The traditional model considers the approaches of the scientific administration and the Weberian school on legal rationalism and the formal institutions based on the status and conventions of bureaucratic organization. In recent decades, the study and development of public administration has given importance to organizational flexibility, linking government and society, selfmanagement, strategic vision quest for organizational quality, among others. This seeks to reflect on the relevance of these models, and review their effect as part of the organizational culture in public offices. In a democratic environment, governments are required to open spaces for citizen  participation in the design, implementation and scrutiny of government programs. In turn, this calls for setting up a new  organizational culture by public servants, where democratic principles privilege, administrative efficiency and respectful collaboration of society with their government in pursuit of public welfare and social development.