For Regular/Distance Education/Private Students

SYLLABUS

M.A. (PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION) PART-II (Sem-III & IV)

(SESSIONs 2016-17, 2017-18 )

For Regular/Distance Education/Private Students

ORDINANCES

AND

OUTLINES OF TESTS, SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READING

FOR

M.A. (PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION)

PART-II

(THIRD AND FOURTH SEMESTER) FOR

(2016-2017 & 2017-18)

PUBLICATION BUREAU

PUNJABI UNIVERSITY,

PATIALA.

SYLLABUS

M.A. (PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION) PART-II

(SEMESTER III & IV)

(2016-2017 & 2017-18 SESSIONS)

For Regular/Distance Education/Private Students

The main objectives of the courses in Public Administration at the University under Semester are:

1) To create an awareness of the environment and acquisition of specialized knowledge in the field.

2) Equipping the students for career in various vocations.

3) Equipping the students for research in government, teaching and other research organizations.

4) Preparing the students for I.A.S. and other Allied Services Examination in the field of Public Administration.

1. For Regular and Distance Education Students : Each paper will carry 75 marks and is of 3 hours duration. 25 marks in each paper is for Internal Assessment.

The Break up of 25 marks for Internal Assessment (Theory Papers) is as below:-

Class Attendance 05 Marks
Written Assignment etc 10 Marks
Two Mid-Semester Tests/ 10 Marks

Internal Examinations*

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Total Marks 25 Marks

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(* Average of both Mid-Semester Tests to be taken.)

2. For Private Students: Each paper will carry 100 marks and is of 3 hours duration. There will be no internal assessment for private students.

M.A.(Public Administration): Part-II

(Semester System)

Sessions: 2016-17 and 2017-18

This page concerned only for campus students

SCHEME of Studies

Note: Complete M.A.(Public Administration) Course carries 80 credits and each paper carries 5 Credits (4 Lectures + 1 Tutorial).

SEMESTER-III

Core Papers Credits

PAPER-I: ADMINISTRATIVE THOUGHT 5(4L+1T)

PAPER-II: STATE ADMINISTRATION 5(4L+1T)

PAPER-III: COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 5(4L+1T)

Elective Papers

PAPER-IV: Any one of the following papers

A. SOCIAL WELFARE ADMINISTRATION 5(4L+1T)

B. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 5(4L+1T)

C. Any other paper served as an elective by other department of Faculty of Social Sciences in Semester-III of M.A. Course. 5(4L+1T)

SEMESTER-IV

Core Papers Credits

PAPER-I: PUBLIC POLICY 5(4L+1T)

PAPER-II: EMERGING AREAS IN INDIAN ADMINISTRATION 5(4L+1T)

PAPER-III: e-GOVERNANCE 5(4L+1T)

Elective Papers

PAPER-IV: Any one of the following papers

A. ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC SECTOR 5(4L+1T)

UNDERTAKINGS

B. LABOUR WELFARE ADMINISTRATION 5(4L+1T)

C. Any other paper served as an elective by other Department of Faculty of Social Sciences in Semester-IV of M.A. Course. 5(4L+1T)

IMPORTANT: Availability of number of seats in an elective course is subject to the space and faculty constraints of the host department.

SEMESTER III

PAPER I: ADMINISTRATIVE THOUGHT

For Regular students Six Periods per week per paper to be delivered.

For Regular/Distance Education Students
Maximum Marks : 100
Theory: : 75
Internal Assessment: 25 / For Private Students
Maximum Marks: 100
Time allowed: 3 hours
Pass marks : 35%
Total Teaching Periods: 75

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTER

(For Regular and Distance Education Students) : The question paper will consist of three sections: A, B and C. Sections A and B, will have four questions from the respective sections of the syllabus and will carry 12 marks each. Section C will consist of 9 short answer type questions which will cover the entire syllabus uniformly and will carry 27 marks in all. Each short answer type question will carry 3 marks. The candidates are required to answer each short type question in 50 words i.e. in 7-8 lines.

(For Private Students) : The question paper will consist of three sections: A, B and C. Sections A and B, will have four questions from the respective sections of the syllabus and will carry 16 marks each. Section C will consist of 9 short answer type questions which will cover the entire syllabus uniformly and will carry 36 marks in all. Each short answer type question will carry 4 marks. The candidates are required to answer each short type question in 50 words i.e. in 7-8 lines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

Candidates are required to attempt two questions each from Sections A and B of the question paper and the entire Section C. The candidates are required to answer each short type question in 50 words i.e. in 7-8 lines

SECTION-A

F.W.Taylor, Henri Fayol, Max Weber

Mary Parker Follett, Elton Mayo, Chester I. Barnard.

SECTION-B

Herbert A. Simon, Abraham H. Maslow, McGregor.

Frederick Herzberg, Rensis Likert, Jawahar Lal Nehru

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

Amitai Etizioni : Modern Organisations, New Delhi, Prentice Hall

Of India Pvt., Ltd., 1964.

Bertram M. Gross : The Managing of Organisations, Vol.l, New York,

The Free Press, 1964.

Claudes S.George Jr. : The History of Management Thought. New York,

Prentice Hall, 1968.

D. S. Pugh and : Writers on Organizations, Fourth Ed., Penguin

D.J. Hickson Books, England, 1989.

D. S. Pugh (ed.) : Organisation Theory: Selected Readings,

England, Penguin Books, 1990.

David Silverman : The Theory of Organizations, London,

Heinemann, 1970.

D. R. Prasad, V. S. Prasad : Administration Thinkers, New Delhi, Sterling

& P. Satya Narayana (ed.) Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1991.

Dwight Waldo : The Administrative State, Second Ed. New York,

The Ronald Press Company, 1972.

L.A. Allen : Management and Organisation, New York,

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1958.

Marino Pinto : Management Thinkers, Bombay, Allied

Publishers, 1986.

Peter M. Blau : Bureaucracy in Modern Society, New York,

Random House, 1962.

Satya Deva : "Theory of Administration", Administrative

Management, July- Sept. 1983.

Sawinder Singh : Uchera Lok Parshasan, Patiala, Punjabi

University Press, 1993,(Pbi.).

Shum Sun Nisa Ali : Eminent Administrative Thinkers, New Delhi,

Associated Publishing House, 1998.

S. R. Maheshwari : Administrative Thinkers, New Delhi, Macmillan

India Ltd., 1998.

ADDITIONAL READINGS

A. H. Maslow : Motivation and Personality, New York, Harper

and Row, 1954.

Chester I. Barnard : The Functions of the Executive, Cambridge,

Mass, Harvard University Press, 1938.

Chris Argyris : Integrating the Individual and Organization,

John Wiley, 1964.

D. Waldo : The Enterprise of Public Administration, 1983.

F. W. Taylor : Scientific Management, New York: Harper &

Row, 1947.

Fred W. Riggs : i. Administration in Developing Countries: The

Theory of Prismatic Society, Boston, Houghton

Mifflin Company, 1964.

ii. "Prismatic Societies and Pubic

Administration", Administrative Change,

Vol.- I, No. 2, Dec.1973.

iii. The Ecology of Public Administration, New

Delhi, Asia Publishing House, 1961.

Federick Herzberg : Work and the Nature of Man, Cleve1and, The

World Publishing Company, 1966.

: The Managerial Choice - To be efficient and to be

Human, Illinois, Dow Jones Irwin Homewood,

1976.

George Elton Mayo : The Human Problems of Industrial Civilization,

Boston, Harvard Business School, 1946.

Harold R. Pollard : Further Development in Management Thought,

London, Heinemann, 1987.

Harold F.Gortner Julianne : Organisation Theory: A Public Perspective

Mahler, Bell Nicholson Chicago, The Dorsey Press 1987.

H. H. Gerth and C. : From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, London,

Wrightr Mills (ed.) Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. 1957.

Herbert A. Simon : Administrative Behaviour: A Study of Decision-

Wrightr Mills (ed.) Making Processes in Administrative Organization,

New York , The Free Press, 1957.

Henri Fayol : General and Industrial Management, London,

Pitman, 1949.

Jawahar Lal Nehru : An Autobiography, London, Bodley Head, 1955.

Jawahar Lal Nehru Address at the Inaugural

Meeting of the IIPA, New Delhi on 29th March,

1954, published The Indian Journal of Public

Administration, Vol. 1, No.1, 1954.

Joy M. Shafriz and : Classics of Public Administration, Chicago, The

Dorsey Press, Albert C. Hyde 1987.

Jong S. Jun(ed.) : Rethinking Administrative Theory: The

Challenge of the New Century, Westport,

Praeger, 2002.

Keith M. Hederson : The Study of Public Administration, Lanham, University Press, Albert C. Hyde of Africa, Inc.

1983.

Michael H. Harmon and : Organisation Theory for Public Administration,

Boston, Little Richard T. Mayer Brown Col., 1986.

McGregor : The Human Side of Enterprise, NY, McGraw-Hill,

1950.

Max Weber : The Theory of Social and Economic Organization,

Glencoe, III, Free Press, 1947.

: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, New York, Scribner, 1930.

Mary P. Follett : Creative Experience, London, Longmans Green,

1924.

Roethlisberger Dickson : Management and the Worker, Cambridge and

Mass, Harvard University Press, 1949.

R. N. Singh : Management Thought and Thinkers, Delhi, Sultan Chand and Sons, 1977.

R. K. Sapru : Theories of Administration, New Delhi S. Chand

and Co. Ltd., 1996.

R. Shamasastry : Kautilya’s Arthasastra, Mysore, Weslevan

'Mission Press, 1929.

Ramesh K. Arora (ed.) : Perspectives in Administration Theory, Associated

Publishing House, NewDelhi, 1979.

Renu Kapila : Maslow's Contribution to Administrative Theory

(Some Lesser Known Aspects)", Chandigarh,

Arun Publishing House, Pvt. Ltd., 2003.

Robert Golembiewski : Public Administration as a Developing Discipline,

NY: Marcel Dekker, 1977.

S. L. Goel : Advanced Public Administration, New Delhi, Deep

and Deep Publication, 2002.

R.K.Sapru : Administrative Theories and Management

Thought, PHI Learning Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi, 2013, 3rd edition.

S.L.Goel : Administrative and Management Thinkers

( Relevance in New Millenium), New Delhi, Deep & Deep Publishers, 2008.

S.Polland : The Genesis of Modern Management , London,

Arnold, 1965.

Satya Deva : "State and Bureaucracy in Kautilya’s

Arthashastra ", The Economic and Political Weekly, 19(19) 12, May, 1984.

W. Evans (ed.) : Frontiers in Organization and Management, NY:

Praeger, 1980.

PAPER II: STATE ADMINISTRATION

For Regular students Six Periods per week per paper to be delivered.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTER

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

SECTION -A

State Legislature: Structure and powers.
Political Executive: Governor, Chief Minister, Council of Ministers..
Structure of State Administration: State Secretariat, Chief Secretary, Directorates.
Divisional Commissioner: Powers, Functions & Position.
District Administration: Structure & Functions. Important functionaries: Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police.

SECTION-B

Structure and Functions of High Courts, State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commissions.
Punjab State Human Rights Commission, Punjab State Commission for Women.
Grievances Redressal Machinery: Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta.
Right to Information: State Information Commission.
Need for Administrative Reforms: Major Recommendations of Punjab Governance Reforms Commission-I.