Public Personnel Administration

Paper Code: 
PAD 123
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objective:

  • To study various aspects of Human Resources, its importance, challenges and contemporary issues.
  • It gives an understanding of the system of personnel administration of Government.

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

PAD 123

Public Personnel Administration

CO 11.To comprehend the nature, scope, structure & processes of human resource management

CO 12. Contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of employee recruitment, selection, and retention plans and processes.

CO 13. Conceptual clarity re. Public personnel Administration, its issues, career systems and other terms covering various aspects of personnel administration

CO 14.  Detailed understanding of the Public personnel system of the Indian Republic

CO15. Critical understanding of issues like Employee associations, Adjudication institutions and processes and Civil Service Reforms

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Demonstration, Action Research, Project, Field Trip

 

Learning activities for the students:

Field activities, Simulation, Presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

14.00

Public Personnel Administration - Concept, Nature, Scope and Significance. Bureaucracy: Meaning, Concepts, Types, Recent Trends and its Role in Modern Society, Neutrality, Anonymity; Public Personnel System in India with Reference to Civil Services: Recruitment, Training, Promotion and Salary Administration

12.00

Human Resource Management: Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance, Human Resources Development: Concept and elements, its implication in Government, Manpower Planning and HRD Strategies, Job Analyses and Job Design, Job Classification

 

10.00

Total Quality Management, Employee Capacity Building Strategies, Promotion Methods and Performance Appraisal, Rewards and Incentive Management, Training & Development

 

12.00

Discipline & Grievance Redressal Mechanism, Accountability, Motivation and Morale, Employer – Employee Relationship; Organization Development-  Meaning, Significance and Interventions, Retirement and Benefits.

 

12.00

Assessing HRM effectiveness, HR Audit, Managing Change at Workplace, Diversity Management, Stress Management, Integrity and Ethics in Public Services, Civil Services Reforms in India.

 

Essential Readings: 

Books Recommended:

 

  • David E. Kalinger: Public Personnel Management, IPMA, Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood
  • India: Administrative Reforms Commission, Report on Personnel Administration, 1969.
  • C.M.Jain, Public Personnel Administration, Jaipur, College Book Depot, 2003.
  • V.M.Sinha: Personnel Administration, (English & Hindi) Jaipur, RBSA Swai Man Singh Highway, 1985.
  • P Ghosh.: Personnel Administration, New Delhi, Sudha Publication, 1975.
  • O.Glenn Stanl: Public Personnel Administration, 7th Ed., Oxford IBH Publication Company, New Delhi, 1977.
  • S.L.Goel: Public Personnel Administration, New Delhi, Deep & Deep Publishers, 2004.
  • K.Aswathappa: Human Resource Management. Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2008.
  • V.S.P.Rao, Human Resource Management, Excel Books, New Delhi, 2007.
  • A.K.Singh et. Al: Human Resource Management, Sun India Publications, New Delhi, 2005.
  • C.L.Chaturvedi: Manav Sansadhan Parbandh, Shri Mahavir Book Depot, 2603, Nai Sarak, Delhi.
  • Shahib Singh & Swinder Singh: Public Financial Administration, New academic Publisher Company, Jalandhar, 2007.

 

Academic Session: 
2021-22
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