Structure

Great Stress on Training
In most developed countries, civil servants undergo rigorous training not only 
immediately after their entry into the civil service, but also throughout their 
career. With an intensive technical background through the education system in 
which they have been socialised, the specialised training imparted to them on the 
various functional areas makes them fully competent to undertake technical tasks 
required in the process of development administration. Specialised training 
institutions function in all developed nations that provide training in a specific 
area of governance. 
Training in developed nations is imparted not only in realms of knowledge-
enhancing and skill development but it is also given in attitudinal transformation, 
whenever required. 
A Motivated Work Force
In developed nations, the basis for recruitment of civil servants is “achieving” 
rather than “ascription”. It is the merit of a person that not only brings him into 
the civil service and it is his competence, alone which pushes him to the higher 
ladders of governance system. It is interesting to know that because of the 
flexibility in the recruitment of civil service at higher level in most developed 
nations, a large number of competent individuals, specialised in different areas of 

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Development
Administration in
Developed and Developing
Nations
development administration, are inducted into the civil service through a pattern 
of “lateral” entry and “contractual” appointments. Service conditions and 
compensation systems for those entering the civil service are made flexible in 
order to accommodate them and retain for whatever period they are needed. 
Thus, in developed nations, not only self- motivated individuals are inducted into 
the administrative system through aggressive recruitment, but providing them 
requisite attractions and supports also retain them.