PAPER – I : Administrative Theory
1. Introduction:
- Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration;
- Wilson’s vision of Public Administration;
- Evolution of the discipline and its present status;
- New Public Administration;
- Public Choice approach;
- Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation , Globalisation;
- Good Governance: concept and application;
- New Public Management.
2. Administrative Thought:
- Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement;
- Classical Theory;
- Weber’s bureaucratic model – its critique and post-Weberian Developments;
- Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett);
- Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others);
- Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard);
- Simon’s decision-making theory;
- Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor).
3. Administrative Behaviour:
- Process and techniques of decision-making;
- Communication;
- Morale;
- Motivation Theories – content, process and contemporary;
- Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.
4. Organisations:
- Theories – systems, contingency;
- Structure and forms: Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies, Boards and Commissions;
- Ad hoc and advisory bodies;
- Headquarters and Field relationships;
- Regulatory Authorities;
- Public - Private Partnerships.
5. Accountability and control:Concepts of accountability and control;
- Legislative, Executive and Judicial control over administration;
- Citizen and Administration;
- Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations;
- Civil society;
- Citizen’s Charters;
- Right to Information;
- Social audit.
6. Administrative Law:
- Meaning, scope and significance;
- Dicey on Administrative law;
- Delegated legislation;
- Administrative Tribunals.
7. Comparative Public Administration:
- Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems;
- Administration and politics in different countries;
- Current status of Comparative Public Administration;
- Ecology and administration;
- Riggsian models and their critique.
8. Development Dynamics:
- Concept of development;
- Changing profile of development administration;
- ‘Antidevelopment thesis’;
- Bureaucracy and development;
- Strong state versus the market debate;
- Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing countries;
- Women and development - the self-help group movement.
9. Personnel Administration:
- Importance of human resource development;
- Recruitment, training, career advancement, position classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pay and service conditions;
- Employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism;
- Code of conduct;
- Administrative ethics.
10. Public Policy:
- Models of policy-making and their critique;
- Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations;
- State theories and public policy formulation.
11. Techniques of Administrative Improvement:
- Organisation and methods, Work study and work management;
- E-governance and information technology;
- Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.
12. Financial Administration:
- Monetary and fiscal policies;
- Public borrowings and public debt Budgets - types and forms;
- Budgetary process;
- Financial accountability;
- Accounts and audit.
