Public Administration

for Competitive Exams

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 SARFRAZ HUSSAIN ANSARI (CSP)
34th Common- PA&AS
Director Finance
– MBA (IF) - UIBE Business School, Beijing
– M. Sc. Public Administration (PF) - QAU Islamabad
– Fellow Pakistan Institute of Public Finance &
Accountancy
– SAP-FI Certified
– Certified Performance Auditor
Faculty Member: School of Management Sciences-QAU
National Institute of Management.
National Officers Academy.

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Public Administration
Introduction
CSS Syllabus
Public Admin. as a subject
Trends in CSS Papers
Past Papers of Public Admin.
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 Public Administration
• The subject deals with the state, society
and government…
• It outlines structures, functions and
competing forces that interplay in the
conduct of business of the state and
government
• It prepares students for civil service
• It highlights role of LAW in the public
setting
 The Government
• To study government is to study the
exercise of authority. (Heywood, 1997)

• The body of persons that constitutes the

• Government is closely related to politics.

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 Public Administration
Public Public Organization: Public
Public Policy
Classical &
Administration: Planning, Budgeting &
Contemporary
Concepts; Values; Theories of
Implementation and Financial
and Context. Evaluation Management
Management

Governance Public
Managing Human
The Civil Service & Administrative Administration:
Resources of the Accountability &
of Pakistan Reforms in
Country Control
Pakistan

Organization of
Reforming
federal, Provincial Public
Public Management Public
and Local Administration &
Skills Corporations &
Governments in Development
Privatization
Pakistan
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 Public Administration
Concepts; Classical &
Contemporary Public Public Policy
Approaches; and
Organization: B Planning,
Context: A+ Theories and
Implementation
concepts: A+ and Evaluation: A
• Definitions What is
• Nature & Scope Classical School Organization?
Thoughts: Its Types. • Strategic
• Politics Vs • Scientific Planning and
Administration Management Organization of management
• Bureaucracy Vs • Bureaucratic Federal, Provincial
Democracy Administration and Local • Planning
• Contemporary Process;
Government in
• Public Administration Thoughts:
& Business • Human Relations
Pakistan.
• Planning
Administration • Behavioral Machinery in
Approach Inter- Pakistan
• NPM Governmental
• NPS Relations.
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 Public Administration
Managing Human Public
Budgeting &
Resources: The Civil Service Management
Financial
B+ of Pakistan. A Skills: A
Management: A+
• Historical
• Public Budget Background. • Decision Making
System of Public
• Leadership &
• Budget Making Employment
• The Structure of Motivation
Process. Civil Service.
• Functions of
• Conflict
• Approaches to HRM • Management of Management
Public Budgeting. Civil Service.
• Challenges of • Change
• Government Adopting HRM in • Civil Service Management
Auditing & Public Sector in Reforms in • Managing
Accounting Systems Pakistan Pakistan Diversity
• Stress
management

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Public Administration
• Public Public
Accountability: B+ Administration and
Development: B
• Institutional and
Structural Context
of Public • Development
Accountability. Administration

• Administrative
Accountability. • Privatization of
SOEs
• Parliamentary
Accountability and
Judicial Control over
Bureaucracy

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 Recommended Readings
• Public Administration: Understanding
Management, Politics and Law in the Public
Sector By David H Rosenblome
– (five relevant chapters’ photocopy available in
NOA Islamabad= 1, 4,5,6,7)
• Public Administration: An Action Orientation
By Robert B Denhardt
– (four relevant chapters’ photocopy available in
NOA Islamabad=1, 2, 4,5)
• Public Administration. By Sarfraz Hussain
Ansari
 Advice
• Smart but quality readings
• Improve your vocabulary of Public Admin.
Read glossary or have pocket dictionary
• Two hours reading daily for fifteen days
• Make detailed notes of only those
questions which are repeated in CSS past
papers
• Make smart notes with headings and
subheadings for ready reference.
• Questions