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PADM 5330: Survey of Public Administration Fall 2016
BUS 258 Tuesday 6:00-8:45
Dr. Kenneth A. Wink
Office: Tyler, BUS 215A
Office Hours:
MWF 10:30-Noon and by Appointment
Phone: 903-566-7327 e-mail:
Course Description: Focuses on the special challenges facing public agencies and administrators. This course emphasizes issues surrounding agency relations with outside constituencies, responsibility and accountability in public management and administrative ethics. Note that there are no prerequisites for this course.
Course Introduction from Dr. Wink: I will be your instructor for PADM 5330: Survey of Public Administration. By way of introduction, I have been at UT Tyler for 18 years, as a teacher and coordinator of the Master of Public Administration program. I have taught this course every year since being at UT Tyler. My previous job was at a university in North Carolina. I am a native of Louisiana, but my wife is a native Texan so that should count for something! I always enjoy teaching this course and I hope you will enjoy the learning as much as I enjoy the teaching.
A Statement on Course Etiquette: I value student participation and discussion very much, particularly if students have read the material and thought about it before coming to class. All class discussion needs to be conducted with the utmost civility toward other students. Also, all e-mail contact with me should be conducted at my “regular” e-mail address listed at the top of this document, rather than through Blackboard. It would help if in the subject line of the e-mail message you type your name and the course number. I will try to respond to you within 36 hours of the time the e-mail is sent.
Course Objectives. By the end of the course, students (YOU!) should:
1. Be able to memorize key concepts in public administration and which authors contributed to knowledge in the field (ex., the politics surrounding administration in the public sector; budgeting; human resources management; ethics; information technology, etc.).
2. Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the major academic contributions in public administration (as in explaining them to me on Discussion Board!).
3. Be able to synthesize the broad scope of material you will read and we will discuss to find some material that can be applied to your work environment to improve your effectiveness as a worker in the public or nonprofit sector.
4. Be able to make inferences about how material presented in class may work in theory and in practice but can be utilized in your particular work environment.
5. Be able to analyze and integrate the variety of material with which you will be presented, thus producing a term paper in which you either draw together seemingly divergent lines of research in a theoretically meaningful way or illustrate how the material can be applied to a concrete work environment.
6. These student learning objectives are measureable, and I will describe below how they will be incorporated into your course grade.
Textbooks:
1. Robert B. Denhardt, Janet V. Denhardt, and Tara A. Blanc, Public Administration: An Action Orientation, 7th ed. Wadsworth, 2014.
2. Jay M. Shafritz, and Albert C. Hyde, Classics of Public Administration, 8th ed. Wadsworth, 2016.
Grading system. Students will be evaluated on the following:
1. Preliminary work on the term paper, due in segments in the first four weeks of class. 25 points
2. A term paper that will be discussed later in the syllabus. 75 points
3. Six reaction papers, to be explained later in the syllabus. 60 points.
4. A midterm exam. 100 points.
5. A final exam. 100 points.
Thus, the grading scale will be as follows:
a. 324-360 pts. = A
b. 288-323 pts. = B
c. 252-287 pts. = C
d. 216-251 pts. = D
e. < 216 pts. = F
Class schedule.
I. Public Administration: Academic Discipline and Practice
August 30
A. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc, chapt. 1
B. Shafritz and Hyde
1. Leonard White, “Introduction to the Study of Public Administration.”
2. Woodrow Wilson, “The Study of Administration.”
II. The Environment of Public Management Sept. 6
A. The Political Context of Public Administration
1. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc, chapt. 2
2. Shaftritz and Hyde
a. Frank J. Goodnow, “Politics and Administration.”
B. The Interorganizational Context of Public Admin., Part I Sept. 13
1. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc chapt. 3, pp. 79-107
C. The Interorganizational Context of Public Admin., Part II.
2. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc chapt. 3, pp. 107-120 Sept. 20
3. Shafritz and Hyde
a. Deil Wright, “Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, and Intergovernmental Management.”
b. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., “Information Technology and Democratic Governance.”
III. Planning, Implementation, and Analysis/Evaluation Sept. 27
A. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc chapt. 4
B. Shafritz and Hyde
1. Yehezkel Dror, “Policy Analysts.”
2. Alice Rivlin, “Systematic Thinking for Social Action.”
IV. Public Budgeting and Finance October 4
A. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc, chapt. 5
B. Shafritz and Hyde
1. Allen Schick, “The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budget Reform.”
2. U.S. Congressional Budget Office, “Using Performance Measures in
the Federal Budget Process.”
Midterm Exam on everything covered so far – October 11, 2016
V. Human Resources Management October 18
A. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc, chapt. 6
B. Shafritz and Hyde
1. R. Roosevelt Thomas, “From Affirmative Action to Affirming
Diversity.”
2. James Perry and Lois Wise, “The Motivational Bases of Public
Service.”
VI. Ethics in Public Administration
A. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc chapt. 7 October 25
B. Shafritz and Hyde
1. Dennis F. Thompson, “The Possibility of Administrative Ethics.”
2. Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour, “Unmasking Administrative Evil.”
VII.
A. Organizational Theory November 1
1. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc, Chapter 8
2. Shafritz and Hyde
a. Frederick W. Taylor, “Scientific Management.”
b. Luther Gulick, “Notes on the Theory of Organization”
c. Herbert A. Simon, “The Proverbs of Administration.”
d. J. Steven Ott, “Understanding Organizational Culture.
VIII. Management and the Exercise of Leadership November 8
A. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc, chapt 9
B. Shafritz and Hyde
1. Mary Parker Follett, “The Giving of Orders.”
2. Louis Brownlow, et al., “Report on the President’s Commission on
Administrative Management.”
3. John Bennington and Mark H. Moore, “Public Value Theory and
Practice: Conclusions
IX . Administrative Reform: The “Reinventing” of Government November 15
A. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc, chapt. 10
B. Shafritz and Hyde
1. The National Performance Review.”From Red Tape to Results:
Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less.”
Thanksgiving Holidays – No Readings or Assignments this Week – November 22
X. The Future of Public Administration November 29
A. Denhardt, Denhardt, and Blanc, chapt. 11
B. Shafritz and Hyde
1. Robert Agranoff, “Inside Collaborative Networks: Ten Lessons for
Public Managers.”
2. Rosemary O’Leary, “The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerilla
Government.”
Term Paper Due: Tuesday, November 29 , at 6:00 pm Central Time
Review for Final Exam and Return Whatever Term Papers Have been Graded – December 6
Final Exam: Tuesday, December 13 , 6:00-?
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Participation Policy
In graduate seminars, participation is mandatory, not optional. If you miss an assignment for good cause, I can grant you an incomplete or “I” grade and you can finish that assignment by the end of next semester. But if you miss multiple assignments, you will suffer the consequences of receiving a 0 on that assignment and/or I will ask you to withdraw from the class. Note that the last day you can wit hdraw from a class is October 26 , at 5:00 pm Central Time. After that date, you would have to make a hardship appeal to the Registrar’s Office to receive permission to withdraw from the course.
The Writing Center
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Large Written Assignment
For your term paper assignment, you will have the option of writing one of two papers.
I am referring to Option 1 as “The Applied Paper.” The applied paper will involve your candid analysis of the organization for which you work. Should you choose to write this paper, you will analyze your organization, assessing its strengths and weaknesses, using as your criteria the concepts presented in the readings for this class.
In this paper, you will be asked to describe the strengths and weaknesses of the organization, the incentive structure, and the budgeting and human resources skills of managers in your work area. What tends to make the organization work effectively, and what factors tend to hinder the success of the organization?
Of course, as this is a ticklish subject, you have my promise that I will not divulge any information gleaned from this paper to ANYONE, for any reason. This assignment is similar to the professional paper option of MPA students at an institution where I previously taught, and a committee of several faculty members had no trouble keeping information from the papers “under wraps.” So this is a tried and true exercise, and one that you should not worry about getting you into any trouble.
However, should you still have reservations about pursuing this option, or should you lack appropriate work experience, you may choose Option 2. Of course, if you choose option 1 you may “change the names to protect the innocent,” but I do expect option 1 to be a work of nonfiction.