This
paper discusses and compares the theories of public
personnel administration and
private personnel administration. The paper contends that the
theorists of the past such as Ogburn, Machiavelli and Marx have offered many great contributions to our current understanding of public and private administration. These theorists' ideas are examined in the paper. The paper concludes with the belief that there is a clear indication that public administration is directly dependent on the social system as well as the system of
production prevalent in
society.