PERSONNEL AND FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION

Paper Code: 
25CPAD301
Credits: 
06
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to acquire knowledge about Personnel and Financial Administration

 

Course Outcomes: 
  1. Analyse the growth of Personnel Administration, its issues, career systems and other areas.
  2. Critically analyse the Classification, Recruitment ,: Training of indian Civil Services.
  3. Undersatnd  knowledge of various aspects of Public Financial Administration with reference to budget enactment and implementation
  4. Develop understanding Public budgeting, Public financial institutions and financial resource mobilization strategies in the Indian context.
  5. To critically evaluate the role of accounting and auditing authorities and various parliamentary committees
  6. Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

 

18.00
Unit I: 
Personnel Administration : Historical Evolution and concept of HR

                                                                          

  • Personnel Administration – Meaning, Nature, and Scope.
  • Concept of Human Resource management and Human Resource Development and their significance
  • Historical Development of Civil Services in India
  • UPSC: composition and Functions
18.00
Unit II: 
Concepts of Personnel Administration

                                                                                                                                                                                     

  • Concepts of Classification, Recruitment, Training, and Promotion                                     
  • Structure, Classification, and Recruitment of Indian Civil Services.
  • Training of Indian Civil Services (with special reference to Training of I.A.S. and I.P.S.)
  • Capacity building and reforms in Civil services
Unit III: 
Financial Administration:

 

  • Meaning and Types of Budget.
  • Concept of Gender Budgeting and Green Budgeting
  • Budget Formulation, Enactment, and Execution in India.
18.00
Unit IV: 
Audit and Accounting systems in India

                                                                        

  • Accounting and Auditing: objectives and types.
  • Role of Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
  • Controller General of Accounts

 

18.00
Unit V: 
Financial control over administration

                                                                                                                                                                                       

  •       Legislative control over Finance.
  •       Working of various Committees:
  • Estimates Committee,
  • Public Accounts Committee,
  • Committee on Public Undertakings

 

Essential Readings: 

·         Arora, Ramesh K. and Goyal, Rajni (2023) Indian Public Administration: Institutions and Issues, Third Edition (Revised). New Age International Publishers: New Delhi

·       Bhayana, S S and Singh S (2023) Public Personnel and Financial Administration (4th Edition). New Academics: Jalandhar

·       Davar, Rustom S (2008) Personnel Management and Industrial Relations in India (2nd Edition).Vikas Publishing House: New Delhi

·       Second      Administrative            Reforms          Commission    (2010)      Refurbishing   of Personnel Administration - Scaling New Heights - 10th Report. Government of India: New Delhi

·       Stahl, O Glenn (1971) Public Personnel Administration (6th Edition). Oxford and IBH Publishing : New Delhi

·       Chand, P (2010) Control of Public Expenditure in India (2ndEdition). Allied Publishers: New Delhi.

·       Chand, P (2010). Performance Budgeting (2ndEdition). Allied Publishers: New Delhi.

·       Gupta, B N (2006) Indian Federal Finance and Budgetary Policy. Chaitanya Publishing House: Allahabad

·       Indian Administrative Reforms Commission (1969) Report on Centre-State Relations. Manager of Publications, Government of India, New Delhi.

·       Indian Administrative Reforms Commission (1969) Report on Finance, Accounts and Audit. Manager of Publications, Government of India, New Delhi.

·       Indian Administrative Reforms Commission (1969) Report on Financial Administration. Manager of Publications, Government of India, New Delhi

·       Indian Institute of Public Administration (1983) Indian Journal of Public Administration, Special Number on Administrative Accountability, Vol. XXIX, No. 3

·       Khan, Aman and Hildreth, W Bartley (2003) Case Studies in Public Budgeting and Financial  Management, Revised and Expanded (2nd Edition). Routledge: New York

·       Lall, G S (1979) Public Finance and Financial Administration in India. HPJ Kapoor: New Delhi

·       Mahajan, Sanjeev Kumar and Mahajan, Anupama Puri (2014) Financial Administration in India. PHI Learning : New Delhi

·       Rabin, Jack and Stevens, Glenn L (2001) Handbook of Fiscal Policy (1st Edition). Routledge: London

·       Sury, M M (1990) Government Budgeting in India. Commonwealth Publishers: New Delhi

·       Thavaraj, M J K (2001) Financial Administration in India (6th Edition). Sultan Chand: Delhi

·       Thompson, Fred and Green, Mark T (Eds.) (1998) Handbook of Public Finance (1st Edition). Marcel Dekker: New York

·       Sahib Singh and Swinder Singh, (2002). Public Personnel and Financial Administration, New Academic Publishing Co.

 

Suggested Readings:

Frank, Howard A (2006) Public Financial

References: 
  • Frank, Howard A (2023) Public Financial Management (1st Edition). CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group: New York .
  • Flippo, Edwin B (2024) Principles of Personnel Management (4th Edition). McGraw Hill: Kogakusha
  • Rabin, Jack; Vocino, Thomas; Hildreth, W Bartley; and Miller, J Gerald (2021) Handbook of Public Personnel Administration. Taylor & Francis: United Kingdom
  • Pigors, Paul and Myers, Charles A (1969) Personnel Administration: A Point of View and a Method ( 6th Edition). McGraw Hill: New York
  • Sarkaria Commission (1988) Report of the Commission on Centre-State Relations. Government of India: New Delhi. Available on: interstatecouncil.nic.in/report-of-the- sarkaria-commission/ sarkaria commission report .
  • Koontz, H and O’Donnell, Cyril (2008) Principles of Management (5th Edition). McGraw Hill: Saxena, A P (2010) Training and Development in Government. Indian Institute of Public Administration: New Delhi
  • Banerjee Chandrashekharan, (2004). Renewing Governance : Issues and Options, Tata McGraw Hill.
  • Alka Dhameja, (2003). Cotemporary Debates in Public Administration, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
Academic Session: 
2025-26
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