AIKAISEMMIN POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION:
Esa Hyyryläinen 11.12.2009
Answer all four questions in English, in Finnish or in Swedish.
1. Ideal role for public administration in a democracy? (books)
2. Ideal level of distinctiveness for public sector? (books)
3. What Hebert Simon meant with satisficing (lectures)
4. Two-tier comparative approach in Vaasa? (lectures)
Esa Hyyryläinen 23.1.2009
Answer all three questions either in English, Finnish or Swedish:
1. Why Max Weber thought bureaucracy to be superior to any other form of organization?
2. Organizations as pen systems? (Katz& Kahn)
3. Explain ’satisficing’ as a condition of decision-makin (simon)
21.10.2008 Esa Hyyryläinen
Answer all three questions either in English, Finnish or Swedish
1. Why Max Weber thought bureaucracy to be superior to any other form of organization?
2. Scientific management (Taylor)
3. “What is the work of chief executive? What does he do?” (Gulick)
15.3.2008 Amr Sabet
Answer three of the following questions:
1. The sub-discipline of modern Public Administration has been strongly associated with its development in the United States since the late nineteenth century (1880s to 1920s).
Discuss the growth of this field of knowledge as reflected in the works of some of its pioneering figures such as Woodrow Wilson (The study of Administration), Frank J. Goodnow (Politics and administration), Frederick W. Taylor (Scientific Management), Max Weber (Bureaucracy), and Mary Parker Follett (The giving of orders).
2. The period between the 1930s and 1950s witnessed Public Management as a well established discipline, through the works of a new generation of theorists.
Follow the progress of the field through the works of scholars such as Luther Gulick (Notes on the Theory of Organization), A.H. Maslow (A Theory of Human Motivation), Philip Selznick (The Cooptative Mechanism), and Charles E. Lindblom (The Science of Muddling Through).
3. Both the 1960s and 1970s have seen an increased self-confidence within the discipline and the dominance of the systems approach in Public Management, as well as the eventual down turn associated with the Watergate Scandal during the Richard Nixon Administration. Reflecting such confidence were scholarly works by Public Management theoreticians such as, Daniel Katz & robert L. Kahn (Organizations and the system concept), Morton Grdzins (The american System), Warren Bennis (Organizations of the Future), Yehezkel Dror (Policy Analysts: A New Professional Role in Goverment Service), Frederick C. Mosher & Others (Watergate: Implications for Responsible Goverment).
Examine the works of these authors as they reflected the Management trends during those two decates.
4. The 1980s and 1990s ushered in a period of change, representing a major shift in political and economic values in the United States, which came abput with the election of Ronald Reagan to the Precidency. This shift brought about a movetoward conservative philosophies of supply-side economics, less goverment, privatization, deregulation, among a range of other policies. This change was reflected in the works of Graham Allison (Public and Private Management), Frederick C. Mosher (Democracy and the Public Service), Dennis F. Thompson (the Possiblity of Administrative Ethics), J Steven Ott (Understanding Organizational Culture), The National Performance Review (From Red Tape to Results), and Deborah Stone (Policy Paradox).
Discuss the issues of main concern to those authors during this period of major Adminstrative and Management changes.