Abstract: The public Sector rationalization trend of most developing administrations addresses the possible institutionalization of a culture of performance in place of record of ineffectiveness of public sector organizations in achieving developmental goals. The strategic option of government has been to ensure that public sector organizations depend less on the government for their financial support and hence embracing the path of self -reliance. The overall-implication of this development has been to induce public organizations to forge a new management partnership with their private sector counterparts by adopting and adapting business-type management to their operations. Public administration as an academic field, argues this study, has to capture this emerging general management mood and assist in articulating approaches and strategies in aid of public administrations that have, in the circumstances, occupied the centre piece of public sector rationalization programmes of the administrative states of the developing world.