I. Public Administration: Concepts, Approaches and Context
Definitions; role and scope of public administration in society; issues in public administration theory and practice — democracy versus bureaucracy, politics versus administration, efficiency versus equity; core values of public administration — rule of law, efficiency, equity and fairness, responsiveness; traditional public administration; new public management; new public service; governance approach to public administration; Islamic concept of public administration; historical roots of public administration in Pakistan.
II. Public Administration: Classical and Contemporary Theories and Concepts
Bureaucracy; scientific management; the human relations; leadership, motivation, network; governance; strategic management; public choice; administrative culture; types of organizational structure; organization of federal, provincial, and local government in Pakistan; administrative culture of Pakistan; inter-governmental relations at federal and provincial level in Pakistan.
III. Public Policy Planning, Implementation and Evaluation
Strategic planning and management; planning process; policy analysis; policy implementation; program evaluation; planning machinery; role of donors and international institutions in public policy and management; policy making and implementation of Federal Government of Pakistan.
IV. Budgeting and Financial Management
The budget as a policy tool; the budget as a managerial tool; principles of budgeting, auditing and accounting in government; the line-item budget; the performance budget; program budgeting; zero-base budgeting; outcome-based budgeting. Planning and budgeting in Pakistan.
V. Managing Human Resources
Spoil versus merit system in public employment; personnel versus human resources management; close versus open system of public employment; functions of human resources management; challenges of adopting HRM in public sector.
VI. Administrative Law
Meaning, scope and significance; nature and contents of administrative law; administrative ethics; delegation of authority and legislation; administrative tribunals; administrative law in Pakistan.
VII. Public Management Skills
Communication; decision making; conflict management; leading; administrative buffering; managing change; managing diversity; stress management; delegation; public service motivation; creativity and problem solving; issues of public management.
VIII. The Civil Service of Pakistan
Historical background of civil service; the structure of civil service; history of civil service reform; management of civil service; institutional and cultural context of civil service; role of civil service in good governance; gender and civil service.
IX. Organization of Provincial and Local Government
Governance structure of provincial administration; organization of provincial secretariat; organization and functions of provincial authorities and agencies and their relationship with government departments; post-devolution local governance; organization and functions of district government and administration; organization and structure of city district government; issues and challenges of local governance.
X. Governance and Administrative Reforms
Theories of administrative reforms; types of administrative reforms; privatization, regulation, de-regulation, decentralization, business re-engineering, quality assurance; administrative reform in Pakistan.
XI. Public Administration: Accountability & Control
Bureaucratic responsiveness; representative bureaucracy; citizens engagement in public service; accountability & control; the concept and approaches to public accountability of public service; institutional framework for administrative accountability; legislative, executive and judicial control over administration; administrative corruption; role of civil society in good governance, media, interest groups, civil society organizations; the situation in Pakistan.
XII. Public Administration and Development
Role of public administration in development; concept of development administration; difference between development administration and development management; changing role of public administration in development; issues and challenges in public administration — the Pakistan situation.
Recommended reading
23 titles| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Public Administration | Denhardt, R. |
| Public Administration — Understanding Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector | David H. Rosenbloom |
| Public Administration | Caiden, Gerald E. |
| Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century | Cooper et al. |
| Organization Theory for Public Administration | Harmon, Michael M. & Mayer, Richard T. |
| Public Administration and Public Affairs | Nicholas Henry |
| Classics of Public Administration | Shafritz, J. and Hyde |
| Public Administration Dictionary | Candler, R. & Plano, J. |
| Reinventing Government | Osbourne, D. and Gaebler, I. |
| Bureaucracy, Basic Books | Wilson, J. Q. |
| Evolution of Pakistan's Administration System | Braibanti, Ralph |
| Human Development in South Asia: The Crises of Governance | Khadija Mahbub-ul-Haque |
| Bureaucracy in Pakistan | Kennedy, Charles H. |
| Public Administration and Law | Beckett, Julia & Koenig Heidi O. |
| Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective | Heady, Ferrel |
| Public Administration and Public Management: The Principle Agent Perspective | Lane, Jan-Erik |
| Governance: South Asian Perspective | Hasnat Abdul Hye |
| Governance, Economic Policy and Reform in Pakistan | Abdus Samad |
| Government and Administration in Pakistan | Jameelur Rehman Khan |
| Public Administration: with special reference to Pakistan | Sultan Khan |
| Public Administration in India | Hoshiar Singh |
| Public Administration in Asia, Vol. I & II | Kalyanaraman Srinivasan |
| Organizational Theory and the Public Sector | Christensen, T., Laegreid, P. |
Others in Group III
You may take one subject from this group, so these are alternatives to Public Administration, not companions to it.