Management problems in the public sector

Abstract

This paper examines one typical case of a public sector company so as to study how problems arise in actual practice and what needs to he done to enable the management of that particular enterprise to further improve its working. In the first part of the paper the author studies the functioning of the State Trading Corporation of India. The second part of the paper draws on this experience to formulate some tentative conclusions and recommendations with respect to the management of public sector enterprises as a whole. These may help in improving our understanding of the behaviour and performance of public sector managers and in examining the need for a clearer ideology for public sector management.