The `Fundamentals of Public Administration’ book aims to provide the students, practitioners and the general readers, a basic text on the fundamentals of public administration. As a dynamic academic field public administration has got much importance with the expansion of different activities of the modern government in this age of globalization.
Hence, this book tries to include the very important introductory issues of public administration. The specialty of this volume is that it has included a brief discussion from the Islamic point of view with almost all the topics. The intention is to give the readers an opportunity to compare and contrast them. This volume is divided into nine chapters.
Chapter one includes, the very primary issues of public administration, such as, meaning and definition, scope of public administration, importance of public administration, the philosophy of administration, various approaches to study public administration, private and public administration, and public administration in the first and third world.
Chapter two, three, four and five include the intellectual emergence of public administration as an academic discipline, such as, origin of public administration, Cameralist’s role in public administration, Nicholas Henri’s five paradigm, and some of the recent concepts, such as, new public administration, new public management, governance, good governance, and good enough governance.
Chapter six and seven have dealt with the dynamics and theories of administrative organizations. They specially included organization fundamentals, such as, nature of organizations: formal and informal, bases of organizations, agencies and principles of administrative organizations; and classical, neo-classical and modern theories of administrative organizations; while chapter eight and chapter nine deal with the dynamics and some important functions of administrative management, such as, planning, policy making, leading, motivating, decision making, communicating and coordinating.
This volume will be of useful and ideal text for the students of public administration, as well, practitioners and general readers.
