The main focus is on behavior and applications to decision theory and decision making. This course presents concepts of bureaucracy, system transformation, national administrative systems, and politics in developed and developing nations. Leadership definitions are explored and compared. This course provides an overview of major contributing fields of Public Administration concentrating on those writers who have made major contributions. Conceptual and methodological foundations in selected areas of public administration research are also given attention.
Emphasis is placed on structural design, redesign, and reorganization.
Design and management of information systems to improve problem solving, management decision-making, and performance evaluation. Various levels of government design and structure receive emphasis, in part, from a comparative basis. Attention to environmental pressure, alternative leadership roles, organizational climate, and policy management. Emphasis is on developing managerial decision-making skills. Design and management of information systems to improve problem solving, management decision-making, and performance evaluation.