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.