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Paper – I Administrative Theory

April 12, 2020 by BureaucratONE Leave a Comment Last Updated April 12, 2020

1. Introduction: 

  • Meaning, scope, and significance of Public Administration ( Extra: nature 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
  • 'Anti development 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.

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