• ISBN13: 9788171567386
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: April 6, 2020
• Pages: 744
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 700 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

Public administration includes primarily the organization, personnel practices and procedures essential to the effective performance of civilian functions entrusted to the executive branch of government. It is the composite of all the laws, regulations, practices, relationships, codes and customs that prevail at any time in any jurisdiction for the fulfilment or execution of public policy. Public administration is far wider in scope and all pervasive in modern life. In democracies, particularly in India, the system, theories and organization of Public Administration require constant adjustment and readjustment in a changing situation. Public administration is essentially an instrument that has to step aside to allow the impulses of growth of the people to blossom forth to build self-reliant communities. The present book has been divided into five parts covering every possible aspect related to public administration. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this book emphasizes a value based approach to the study and practice of public administration. The language of the book has been kept deliberately simple so as to make it easily accessible to the average readers. Latest works, articles, papers and reports published by both private and government departments have been referred to which make the book highly informative and authentic. Students of Public Administration both at undergraduation and graduation levels will find it useful. Even for the teachers of the subject, it is an ideal reference book.

Urmila Sharma is a recipient of four gold medals for her outstanding performance in M.A. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Lucknow University and also received UGC Research Fellowship. She has worked as a lecturer in P.G. Department of Political Science at R.G. College, Meerut. She has been continuously engaged with research and writing work. Many of her books on political science, both in English and Hindi, have received overwhelming response. In this respect, her work Humanism in Contemporary Indian Political Thought deserves particular mention. S.K. Sharma, M.A. (History), M.A. (Political Science), LL.B., Ph.D. (London), taught Political Science to undergraduate and postgraduate students for three decades and retired as Head of the Department of Political Science, Meerut College, Meerut. Author of about fifty research papers, Dr. Sharma guided Ph.D. research and attended numerous seminars in India and abroad. He obtained Ph.D. degree from London University for his now published work on Harold Laski.

• PART I

• INTRODUCTORY
• 1. Importance of Public Administration
• 2. Meaning and Scope of Public Administration
• 3. Nature and Role of Public Administration
• 4. Methodology
• 5. Relationship to Other Sciences
• 6. Comparative Public Administration
• 7. International Public Administration
• 8. Development Administration
• 9. Basic Principles of Public Administration

• PART II

• ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION
• 10. Principles and Problems of Organization
• 11. Organisational Form of Public Enterprises
• 12. Legislature as the Board of Directors
• 13. Top Management in Public Enterprises : Board of Directors
• 14. Chief Executive as the General Manager
• 15. Units of Organisation : Line and Staff Agencies
• 16. Line Agencies Department
• 17. Ministries and Departments in the Government of India
• 18. Independent Regulatory Commission (IRC)
• 19. Administration of State Enterprises
• 20. Government Control of Public Enterprises

• PART III

• PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
• 21. Civil Services in India
• 22. Civil Services in U.S.A. and U.K.
• 23. Classification and Compensation
• 24. Recruitment of Personnel
• 25. Personnel Systems of Civil Service : Bureaucracy
• 26. Reform of Bureaucracy in India
• 27. Public Service Commissions in India
• 28. Training in Civil Service
• 29. Promotion in Civil Service
• 30. Conduct and Discipline in Public Administration
• 31. Retirement in Public Services
• 32. Morale in Public Services
• 33. Ombudsman : The Machinery for Redressal of Public Grievances
• 34. Employees’ Associations

• PART IV

• FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
• 35. Public Finance and Budget
• 36. Financial Administration in U.S.A. and Britain
• 37. Accounting and Auditing of Public Finance
• 38. Parliamentary Control Over Finance
• 39. Financial Relations between the Centre and the States
• 40. Planning and Planning Commission in India

• PART V

• LEVELS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• 41. Decentralization and Local Self-Government
• 42. Union-State Relations in India
• 43. Public Administration in Indian States
• 44. Panchayati Raj in India
• 45. Administrative Improvement
• 46. Administrative Reforms
• 47. Delegation and Delegated Legislation
• 48. Public Administration and Law
• Judiciary
• 49. Public Relations