| dc.description.abstract | The following is a study of the administrative training conducted
in Kenya between 1961 and 1967. It is focussed on consideration of
the proposition that, in developing nations, administrative training
which is patterned on programmes used in the developed world will be
largely and empty and irrelevant because unrelated to the way in
which the governmental system actually works in such states.
Crucial to this idea is the fact that in the developing world,
unlike industrialized states such as the U.S.A. or Western European
countries, bureaucrats are frequently in the position of having to make
decisions concerning policy. This means that their personal values
can affect their work to a considerable exten!V"this has led to the
suggestion that training fo such bureaucra..ts must include the inculcation
of the ideals best suited to a developmental regime. It is assumed
that the present training imparted to bureaucrats in developing countries,
being based on models used in the developed world, does not
include such value training.
In Kenya, administrative training was originally established as a
means of faci! itating the process of Africanization of the upper levels
of the Civil Service. It is centred at the Kenya Institute of Administration;
its present function is chiefly to improve performance within
the largely Africanized bureaucracy. The core of this thesis is an
examination of the views of two groups of former trainees on the relevance
or otherwise of a particular administrative training programme
which has been conducted at the Institute over a number of years. | en |
