POL030104: Perspectives on Public Administration (Core)
Unit-I: Public Administration as a Discipline
a. Meaning, Dimensions and Significance
b. Public and Private Administration
c. Evolution of Public Administration
Unit-II: Theoretical Perspectives
a. Scientific Management (Frederick Winslow Taylor)
b. Administrative Management (Luther Gulick, Lyndall Urwick and Henri Fayol)
c. Ideal-Type Bureaucracy (Max Weber)
d. Human Relations Theory (George Elton Mayo)
e. Ecological Approach (Fred Warren Riggs)
Unit-III: Personnel Administration
a. Recruitment-Training-Promotion
b. Public Service Commission: Need, Role and Independence
c. Neutrality in the Public Service
Unit -IV: Major Approaches in Public Administration
a. New Public Service Approach
b. New Public Management
c. Good Governance
d. Feminist Perspective
