This paper presents three parts on the global dimension of public administration including the difference between globalization and internationalization; the relationship between globalization and capitalism or modernization; and the critical meaning of globa1ization on public administration. The author proposes four points about the consequence of globalization: l)the hegemonial nature of free market; 2)the declining and maintaining of multi-culture; 3)the instrumental rationality of globalization dividing the whole personality of human nature; 4 )nationalism under the tide of globalization. In the last section, this paper suggests eight points about the critical meaning of globalization on public administration.