Part - I: Public Administration: Introduction
Public Administration: Meaning and Scope
Significance of the Study of Public Administration
Role of Public Administration in Developed and Developing Societies
Public Administration and Private Administration
Public - Private Partnership
Methodology for the Study of Public Administration
Evolution of the Study of Public Administration as a Discipline
Nature of Public Administration: Art or Science
Public Administration and Other Social Sciences
Woodrow Wilson's Vision of Public Administration
Politics and Administration
New Dimensions in Public Administration
New Public Administration
Concept of Development
New Public Administration
Concept of Development
Development Administration: The Concept
Comparative Public Administration: Nature and Scope
Ecology of Public Administration
Public Administration and Public Policy
Public Choice Theory and Public Administration
New Public Management: NPM
State Versus Market Debate
Administration Culture
Challenges of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation and Public Administration
Part - II: Organization
Organization: Formal and Informal
Organization Theories: Approaches
Principles of Organization
Structure of Organization: Chief Executive
Structure of Organization: Line and Staff
The Line Agencies: Department
The Line Agencies: Public Corporation
The Line Agencies: Independent Regulatory Commissions
Company form of Public Undertakings
Boards and Commissions
Relationship Between the Head Quarters and Field Establishments
Part - III: Management
Management and its Tasks: Concepts of Participative Management
Scientific Management: Frederick W. Taylor
Decision - Making Process in Administration: Herbert Simon
Tools of Administrative Management: Administrative Leadership
Tools of Administration Management: Authority and Responsibility
Tools of Administrative Management: Delegation
Toole of Administrative Management: Administrative Planning
Tools of Administration Management: Communication
Motivation: Masio, Megregor and Herzberg
Tools of Administrative Management: Control (Network analysis Techniques: Pert and C. P. M.) and Supervision
Human Relations in Management: Elton Mayol
Part - IV: Personnel Administration
The Concept of Bureaucracy (Reference to the Views of Max Weber, Karl Marx, Mosca and Michels)
The Concept of Civil Services
Evolution of Civil Services
Recruitment of Civil Servants
The Union Public Service Commission in India (Organization, Functions and Role)
Training of Civil Servants
Problems and Principles of Promotion in Civil Service
Position Classification and Pay Scales in Civil Service
Civil Service in India: The Story of Its Evolution
All India Services
The Indian Administrative Service
Central Civil Services
Bureaucracy and Development
Role of Generalists and Specialists in Indian Administration
Committed Bureaucracy: The Indian Context
Employer - Employee Relations: Whitley Councils
Civil Services in India: Context and Administrative Ethics and Code of Conduct
Career Development
Performance Appraisal
Integrity in Administration: The Context of Corruption
Morale in Civil Service
Indian Model of Ombudsman (Lokpal & Lokayukta)
Minister - Secretary Relationship in Administration
Part - V: Financial Administration
Financial Administration: Elements of Budget
Budgetary Process in India
Performance Budgeting and Zero - based Budgeting
Financial Administration in Britain and the United States of America
Control Over Public Expenditure
Indian Accounting and Auditing System
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Monetary Policy: Objectives and Tools
Fiscal Policy and its Instruments
Public Debt
Part - VI: Administrative Reforms
Administration Reforms: Early Thinking and Attempts
Administrative Reforms in India
Organization and Methods
Entreprenuerial Government
The Concept of Good Governance
Information Technology and Public Administration
E-Governance
Bureaucracy: Downsizing
Part - VII: Citizen and Administration: Miscellany
Control over Administration in India
Delegated Legislation: Administration Need
Administrative Law
Administrative Adjudication and Administrative Trubunals
Public Relations
Citizen and Administration: Role of Media, Pressure and Interest Groups, Voluntary Organisations, Concept of Civil Society, People's Participation in Administration, Right to Information and Social Audit
Citizen and Administration: Citizens Charter
Grievance Redressal Mechanism
Economic Planning in India and Administrative Machinery for Plan Formulation
District Administration in India (The Role and Position of the District Collector)
Democratic Decentralization and Panchayati Raj in India
Urban Local Administration in India
