TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS: MEASURES FOR IMPROVEMENT

The paper focuses on the concept of 'towards sustainable public organizations. It will take a definitive holistic view of public organizations, role and functions of public organizations, status or characteristics of the public organization and the brief schools of thought or model of public organization; assess the challenges and proffer possible suggestions towards their resolution. Public organizations are beginning to face more operational challenges such as competition locally and internationally, competition occasioned by digital commercial enterprises - online super business, security threats including online threats by hackers, higher operational cost, technological innovations and improvised alternatives. There is also the issue of impacts occasioned by globalization, global terrorist activities, climate change effects, continuous increase in the demography of the world, etc. Such challenges as above had made it extremely vital for public organizations to take inventory of strategies for sustainability and efficiency, just as combating these kinds of challenges task public organizations more not only in the discharge of their roles and functions but in also keeping the establishment from external threats. The research approach or methodology, making use of secondary data, would do a holistic assessment of such concepts as public organizations, sustainable public organizations, identify what the traditional and contemporary challenges of the public organizations are, assess the impacts of the challenges of public organizations with a view to drawing suggestions and recommendations towards their resolution from experiences and practices that are widely applicable in various climes of the world. The research would clearly look at the following; definitive holistic view of public organizations, concepts as public organizations; what is sustainable public organization; role and functions of public organizations; status of public organizations; brief school of thought on public organizations; identify traditional challenges of public organizations; identify contemporary challenges of public organizations; assess the challenges public organizations; suggestions towards their resolution of challenges of Public organizations; operational challenges such as competition locally and internationally; competition occasioned by digital commercial enterprises such as online super business, security threats including online threats by hackers, higher operational cost, technological innovations and improvised alternatives.