BPA2106 Development Administration and Management

The overall aim of the course is to introduce   you  to  the definition and origin of development planning and administration. Related concepts such as development, growth, underdevelopment and modernisation will be   learnt. After that the focus will shift to the environment of development   administration with emphasis on salient economic, political, administrative   and socio-cultural factors which impinge on government development efforts. Other issues that will be discussed include development planning and public   enterprises with emphasis on privatisation. 
 
Course Objectives

• Conceptualisation of development administration & management
• Evolution of development administration and management
• Major theories of development (modernisation theory, dependency theory, Marxist theory)
• Bureaucracy and development; restructuring of economies and economic institutions for development
• Structural adjustment programmes; privatisation; and the search for excellence
• Democratisation and development; the international welfare state and development administration; Aid management
• Administrative reforms (civil service reforms, training and development, and delegation); decentralisation, centralisation and development; search for efficiency (time management, culture and efficiency, American and Japanese); and search for effectiveness (leadership, accountability issues, motivation, participatory). 

Learning outcomes
At this course, students should be able to:

• Conceptualize, develop, administer and manage.
• Understand the evolution and development of development administration and management
• Understand major theories of development
• Knowledge on structural adjustment