practical exercises on self-management, managing and building relationship with other people, and essentials of managing organizations.
PAD3533 Organization Theory and Design for Public Organizations (3 credits)
Prerequisite: PAD2111 Previously listed as PMG3533
This course is meant for students of public administration. This course focuses on the classical and modern aspects of organizations and the role of managers as leaders and facilitators of change. It aims to provide students with theoretical concepts and knowledge relevant to organizational design and management issues as well as opportunities to apply theories and knowledge to future organizational settings. this course deals with various perspectives on organizations, including a structural frame, human resource frame, political frame and symbolic frame. PAD3536 Organizational Behavior for Public Organizations (3 credits)
Prerequisite: PAD2111 Previously listed as PMG3536
This course is meant for students of public admin- istration. This course will introduce students to the major concepts of organization theory and behavior. the course examines various theories developed in an attempt to explain and predict employee behav- ior in an organizational context. the primary focus of organizational behavior is leadership and decision making skills in an intercultural environment, power, job satisfaction, and motivation. the overall objective of this course is the development of skills and knowl- edge that will allow students to contribute in the man- aging of effective behavior in organizations.
PAD3541 Natural Resource Management (3 Credits)
Prerequisite: PAD2111 Previously listed as NMG3541
this course is intended to provide students with critical frameworks for understanding problems in natural resource decision-making and use. an interdisciplinary approach to managing natural resources will be developed that will allow students to
assess and utilize the types of information, expertise, and value-judgments that need to be considered in reaching a decision. Historical and current examples of resource use will be employed in order to reinforce the learning process. Essay topics of the students’ choice may be Kazakh or international.
PAD3542 Public Policy Analysis (3 Credits)
Prerequisite: PAD2111 Previously listed as PPA3542
this course presents a multi-disciplinary, multi- theoretical approach to understanding public policies in different areas such as health care, education, social welfare, crime, defense, environment, and economic and tax policy. the course will focus on a systematic analysis of public policy alternatives, factors, and processes involved in policy development. It will also examine questions about the content of governmental decisions, the factors that cause different policy- outputs, and the consequences of various governmental decisions.
PAD3543 Urban Development (3 credits)
Prerequisite: PAD2111 Previously listed as PPA3543
this course provides an overview of politics and policy-making for large cities and metropolitan areas. It dwells upon such issues as governmental strategies of reform; land-use planning and regulation; management and social impact of growth; transportation and the environment; citizen participation and development of local democratic institutions.
PAD4441 Oil and Gas Policy (3 Credits)
Prerequisites: PAD2111 Previously listed as NMG4541
The course will examine the role of oil and gas in politics, including the types of regimes in which oil figures prominently, and will examine the ways in which government policies affect economic growth in these industries.
the course will pay special attention to the role of oPEC in world affairs, and to the growing influence of newly emerged oil powers, including the Caspian Sea region and Republic of Kazakhstan.
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PAD4442 Comparative Public Administration (3 credits)
Prerequisite: PAD2111
this course introduces students to the comparative aspects of contemporary public administration systems in a selected set of countries. Examples will be drawn from Continental-European, anglo- Saxon and Asian models of public administration systems. Students will explore how various countries (developed, developing, and transitional) deal with multiple dichotomies in their respective public administrations: theory and practice, efficiency and fairness, secrecy and openness, and the most famous of all, politics and administration. Students will learn about various degrees of impact that politics, economics, culture and environment may have on the functioning of public administration institutions on central and local levels as well as on the relationships between politicians and bureaucrats.
PAD4443 Public Management (3 credits)
Prerequisite: PAD2111
The course aims to expose participants to current trends and developments in public management theory and practice and to teach students about public organizations and the challenges facing contemporary public managers. It explores new approaches and attempts to reform administration and management in government. We will learn about the evolution of the field of public administration, the way that public organizations differ from private organizations, how the “reinventing government” movement has affected public management and spawned counter- movements, and how public managers interact with other actors and institutions in the political process. there will be a specific focus on state and local government in Kazakhstan.
PAD4520 Program Evaluation (3 Credits)
Prerequisite: PAD2111 Previously listed as PMG4520
the course is organized to provide students with an over- view of the tools and techniques used to measure the ac- tivities, characteristics, effectiveness and efficiency of pro- grams targeted towards specific populations. the primary objective of program evaluation is to provide feedback to decision-makers and other stakeholders, in order to de-
termine whether a particular program is achieving desired outcomes at a reasonable cost. Students will be exposed to evaluation strategies and issues related to evaluation design. Students will develop and conduct a professional project evaluation of existing national and international projects in almaty, including initiatives undertaken by different international organizations and local NGOs. Project evaluations will be conducted in groups of 3-4 students. Students will be accompanied and supervised throughout all stages of the evaluation process. No previ- ous experience with evaluation research and empirical or qualitative data analysis is required.
PAD4521 Current Issues in Public Management
Prerequisite: PAD2111 Previously listed as PMG4521
this course discusses government reform and modern- ization efforts across the world. It deals with the most common areas in need of reform and innovation such as civil service, regulation, service delivery, and corrup- tion control. It looks at innovations that involve the use of information technology, performance management, and competition to improve the effectiveness and ef- ficiency of government. Many concepts now in use in public sector management borrowed from the private sector. How they apply and conceptualize in a public sector context is an important part of this course. PAD4534 Public Budgeting (3 credits)
Prerequisite: PAF 3511
This course is concerned with the practice of public agency budgeting in the decision making process and its impact on policy making. It will introduce participants to significant features of government budgeting top- ics, such as the role of budgeting in resource allocation, information and control, and various budget formats. other topics include the budget cycle, the role of bud- geting in enhancing social equity, budget analysis meth- odology, and introduction to theories of budgeting. PAD4535 Public Sector Auditing (3 credits)
Prerequisite: PAF 3511
The course introduces participants to the concepts and practices of performance auditing/assessment. Students will be provided with the knowledge and skills to determine whether a public organization is managing and utilizing its resources efficiently. they