The Malaysian Bureaucracy Four Decades of Development

• Main Authors: Abdullah Sanusi Ahmad Tan Sri Dato' (Author), Norma Mansor (Author), Abdul Kuddus Ahmad 1939- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Petaling Jaya, Selangor Prentice Hall 2003
• Subjects: Bureaucracy > Malaysia; Public administration > Malaysia
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• Physical Description: xiv, 274 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographies and index
• ISBN: 9839236962; 9789839236965

The public service has to play a number of roles in the development of the country, It has to play the main traditional role of providing the administrative services. For a developing society, the public service has to go beyond the normal administrative and regulatory services, It must not inly be efficient, it must be a leader and be in position to change the country. Under the New Economic Policy, for example, the public service had to undertake a pivotal role in the private sector through public enterprise established to help achieve NEP.