0 lack of care, judgment, or honesty in the management of something:
Thousands of refugees are dying because of the incompetence and maladministration of local officials.
1 a situation in which the people who manage a company or organization behave in a careless or dishonest way and cause serious problems:
A further complication in addressing state maladministration, particularly pertinent to the issue of pensions, was financial in nature.
On one level, the choice of overseers in 1646 had become a contentious issue because their immediate predecessors had been accused of maladministration.
Recognition of local unease at maladministration resulted in a clause allowing the cottagers to unseat trustees and make new appointments if they were dissatisfied.
The authors are frank about the many failings of pensions programmes and provident funds in the region, including very low rates of population coverage, maladministration and corruption.
Despite all this, the crucial question which is not put is whether the result would have been substantially different if this maladministration had not been the case.
Where he found maladministration it was mostly of a minor nature and not due to improper motives.
A finding of no maladministration is not always a negative result for the complainant.
The terms of reference of both schemes exclude purely commercial decisions, unless there is an allegation of maladministration.
