FVPAA057 Praxis of Public Administration

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lukáš Vomlela, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Lucie Kamrádová, Ph.D.
Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce main issues of public administration, administrative discipline and politics, familiarization with basic theoretical approaches and concepts as well as main development trends of public administration systems in wider social connection. The emphasis will be put also on institutions in public administration, organizational principles and basic models of public administration on local, regional and state level, the creation of European administrative area and reforms of public administration in last decades. In connection, the processes of decision, evaluation and control in state administration and self- administration will be observed as well as administrative policy, personal and ethical issues in the frame of European Union and other countries (USA, Canada, Australia etc.) The second part of the subject is practical oriented towards public administration in the Czech Republic and it´s functioning in practise. The aim of the second half of the subject is to introduce the main possible working places for students after being graduated. Within the course several meetings with absolvents are held and students the practical aspects of particular institutions of public administration are introduced. The tuition also will stress cross-disciplinary character of the course as well as the need of comparative approach and observation of social, juridical and political connections of public administration incidence. The students are able to orient in current administrative systems, institutions a processes, in principal documents and actions of public administration and self-administration in international merit.
Learning outcomes
Students are able to orient in current administrative systems, institutions a processes, in principal documents and actions of public administration and self-administration in international merit and they are also introduced with the practical aspects of public administration
Syllabus
  • 1. State, public administration and administrative discipline and the changes of administrative discipline
  • 2. Organization of state, government and executive organs of state administration
  • 3. Social aspects of modern public administration
  • 4. Institutions and organizational structures in public administration
  • 5. Territorial organizations of modern state and European administrative area
  • 6. Principles of public administration
  • 7. Local and Regional level of state administration
  • 8. Professional experience from local level of state administration
  • 9. Professional experience from regional level of state administration
  • 10. Profesional experience from central-state level of state administration
  • 11. Profesional experience of NGO´s
  • 12. Summary
Literature
    required literature
  • UGUR, O and DOGAN K. C. (eds): Contemporary Debates on Politics and Public Administration in the Postmodern Era, Berlin 2019.
  • KHAN, H. A. Globalization and the Challenges of Public Administration: Governance, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Ethics, E-Governance and Sustainability in the 21st Century, London 2018.
Assessment methods
Students are requested to make an oral presentation and to submit it´s written form. Beside the regular reading of literature, active participation in discussion is also expected. Exam
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 11př+11cv/sem.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2023, recent)
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