This Program demonstrates and explains the role of Public Administration in the implementation of government policy; in effect, the translation of politics into the “reality” which citizens see every day. Public Administration is concerned with the organisation of government departments and agencies,and managing the programmes developed to carry out policy, as well as the behaviour of “civil servants” who are the officials responsible for conducting those policies and programmes.
Our Study & Training Program considers government decision making, analysis of public policies, and the various inputs that may have produced them. The Program aims to prepare Members for employment in the public or civil service, and for advancement within it, and to train them to better conduct their current and future roles; they may become central or local government public administrators working in departments and agencies at any levels of government. The Program is relevant for the wide range of public administrator roles and, including heads and staff of city, regional and federal departments,municipal budget departments, HR administrators, city managers, census managers, health and welfare staff, cabinet secretaries and many more.
Major Topics Covered in this Diploma Program:
- The nature and roles of public administration in the world of changing expectations. Public administration in the implementation of government policy in the daily lives of citizens.
- The institutional setting of public administration: organisational structures. Central government organisations. The public sector and the environment, “green” policies, gauging their impact and outcomes, implementation.
- The civil or public service: public administrators, duties and responsibilities, behaviour towards the public. Traditional roles, recent changes, the modern civil or public service.
- Human resource management: recruitment, training, remuneration, supervision and control, promotion - vertical and horizontal - in public administration.
- Structure and functions of local administration. Duties and responsibilities of local administration officials.The local government service.Local bureaucracies. Central government control
- Financing the public sector, allocating resources for central and local administration, budgets and budgetary control, financial control and audits.
- Independent public bodies. Health and voluntary agencies. Integration, continuity and change.
And many more
