Abstract
This article seeks to address and direct future research collaboration in public policy and administration from a transdisciplinary perspective in South Africa, by answering three major questions: Firstly, how can public administration be understood from a transdisciplinary perspective? To demonstrate the development of public administration vis-a-vis trends in contemporary public policy and administration in South Africa? And establish the scope for future collaborative research in public policy and administration from a transdisciplinarity perspective in South Africa? This article uses themes in the qualitative realm to provide answers to the research aims: two special editions of Future, Transdisciplinary Manifesto and over 100 journal articles were read and scanned to provide evidence for the arguments in this article. It concludes that the need for transdisciplinarity in public policy and administration cannot be undermined or overlooked as a result of depleting strategies, theories, models and frameworks in resolving complex society quagmires from a disciplinary or interdisciplinary nomenclature.
Highlights
The knowledge approach in public policy and administration studies and transdisciplinarity are largely interwoven
From the foregoing, it is perhaps safe to say that the idea of public policy and administration has moved from trash collection to space exploration, from the regulation of complicated economies to aiding fragile economies move beyond subsistence farming, and from biomedical technological advancement to census accuracy, as well as from Taylorism to bioethical conduct of administrative personnel in government palaces
Premised on the understanding of decolonisation, how can KM, Africanisation and OTTA help to pave the way for new thinking in public policy and administration using system thinking?
Summary
The knowledge approach in public policy and administration studies and transdisciplinarity are largely interwoven. To solve the problem of public administration in South Africa is to decolonise, which involves three essential and vital elements: Africanisation, knowledge management and integration, and Openness, Truth, Transparency and Accountability (OTTA).10 With these resolved from a transdisciplinary perspective, it is a surety that smooth implementation of government programmes and projects is guaranteed, and a corresponding reduction in nepotism, corruption, godfatherism and favouritism is assured To solve the problem of public administration in South Africa is to decolonise, which involves three essential and vital elements: Africanisation, knowledge management and integration, and Openness, Truth, Transparency and Accountability (OTTA). With these resolved from a transdisciplinary perspective, it is a surety that smooth implementation of government programmes and projects is guaranteed, and a corresponding reduction in nepotism, corruption, godfatherism and favouritism is assured
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