Lack of managerial commitment and low organizational motivation are the tweedledum and tweedledee of the Indian Public Sector work culture, which have been plaguing it since inception. Acting in concert, they have brought about a sort of permissiveness in the public sector ethos that has come to impair its functional health. However, its revival to normality, save privatization, should be the national concern, but none of the efforts so far, over the decades that is, seems to have met with any perceptible success. The problem is one of correct diagnoses of the ailment, though the symptoms of the malady have