The development of the Office of Management and Budget and its relationship with the President, Congress and the Federal Bureaucracy will be considered as well as political, organizational and behavioral constraints on budgetary decision-making. D POLS g454 Public Personnel Administration 3 credits. Operations and processes of personnel management in public institutions. Major topics include personnel processes, public employee rights and duties, employee motivation and morale, the political environment of public personnel administration, and the impact of professionalism, technology, and participatory democracy on public personnel practices. Labor Organization 3 credits.
Emphasis is on governmental employee unions.
Grantwriting 3 credits. Steps involved in the grantwriting process from strategic planning, research, and writing to finding appropriate grant sources. D POLS g458 Public Administration Ethics 3 credits. A course in applied ethics serving to educate students from a theoretical and a practical point of view. The course provides an historical and social perspective of ethics in public administration.