INR142: Introduction to Public Administration

This course guide provides you with the necessary information about the contents of the course and the materials you will need to be familiar with for a proper
understanding of the subject matter. It is designed to help you to get the best of the course by enabling you to think productively about the principles underlying the issues you study and the projects you execute in the course of your study and thereafter. It also provides some guidance on the way to approach your tutor-marked assignments (TMA). You will of course receive on-the-spot guidance from your tutorial classes, which you are advised to approach with all seriousness.
Overall, this module will fill an important vacuum in the study of Public Administration, especially as it is interested in knowing how the machinery of administration works, how policies are formulated and implemented and how the bureaucracy works. Students will acquire an understanding of and the skills to overcome the problems of policy implementation and bureaucratic bottlenecks. They will also be able to apply administrative approaches to real world events at all levels of government.