Assignment:
Overview
Leading well requires effective management skills. Management and leadership are not entirely the same, but there is much overlap, and an effective leader needs to know how to manage. This is certainly true in public administration, where specific management skills are required. For this module, we will focus on some of the managerial skills needed to effect change at an organizational and policy level. Leaders need to know how to engage in policy analysis, recommend change, and collaborate with other stakeholders to agree on changes and implement solutions. You will learn that leadership skills are needed to accomplish these tasks.
Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this module, you will be able to:
- Identify the important facets of planning, implementation, and evaluation in the public administration context;
- Discuss the means by which effective leaders negotiate change and improvement with other stakeholders; and,
- Synthesize these best practices into a working definition of public administration statesmanship.
Content FolderReading & Study
- Textbook Readings
- A Biblical-Covenantal Perspective on Organizational Behavior & Leadership: Lesson 7
- Article: Transactional Authority and Bureaucratic Politics
- Article: Collaborative Governance: Integrating Management, Politics, and Law
- Article: Policy Feedback and the Politics of Administration
- Article: Governing Small-Town America Today: The Promise and Dilemma of Dense Networks
- Presentation: Strategic Planning in Public Organizations
Overview:
In this case study, you will apply your Statesmanship model to a public administration context dealing with the challenges of planning and implementation of policy and programs. Remember to discuss the importance of the following:
• Program Evaluation
• Policy analysis
• Conflict resolution and consensus building
• Covenant
• Statecraft
General Guidelines:
• Case Study scenarios must be taken from documented (published) public administration contexts; no hypotheticals are allowed. Students can focus on one particular public administration organization or may refer to a particular situation (well-documented by the research) that many public administrators face.
• All ideas shared by the student must be supported with sound reason and citations from the required readings, presentations, and additional research.
• Integrate Biblical principles within the analysis of the paper.
• The paper should be 4 to 5 pages of content in length (not counting the title page or references), double-spaced, and in APA format.
• All required readings and presentations from the assigned module must be cited.
• 3 to 5 additional sources must be used. This need not be scholarly so long as they are provide relevant political and economic analysis of your chosen nation. Wikipedia may not be used (though certainly the student is welcome to review its content), and informal blogs are not appropriate.