Dr.

Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Public Administration in Natural Resource Management Section 1: History and Evolution 1. What does Public Administration (PA, hereafter) mean? 2. When did people start practicing PA from? 3. Why PA did received impetus as a learning course? 4. Now can you have some simple definitions of PA? 5. Are administer and serve synonymous? 6. DO you think that PA emerges due to government investment in the states? 7. PA is a government in action with non-political spirit and intent to execute all policies formulated by the political executives honestly and impartially - justify this statement referring the reality in Bangladesh. 8. Justify the need to study PA being the students of Natural Resource Sciences Section 2: Nature of PA 1. What are the schools on the study of PA? 2. What are the relationships between PA and BA? 3. What are the relationships between PA and PrA? 4. What are the relationships between PAs in developing and developed countries? 5. What are the different views of PA? 6. Why do we need to study PA? 7. What is the significance of PA? 8. Is it a basis for a government? 9. PA and NRM? 10. What are administrative laws? Explain how administrative laws have become the basis for PA. 11. Do you support that PA should be based on ones belief and emotion? Think about our country's PA. 12. What is POSCoRB? What happens when a certain step, say organization, is dropped off? 13. What are the three branches of Bangladesh government? Which branch can be singled out as the most important? Please explain your answer. 14. PA and NRM do possess an obvious interface of interaction really? Section 3: Organizations 1. What is an organization? 2. Types of organizations? 3. Theories of organizations- the principles? 4. Theories of organizations- the types? 5. Organization Management theories? 6. What social impulses prompt man to form an org? 7. Which organization between formal and informal do you think is stronger and wider? 8. What happens when an organization is too formal or too informal? 9. What are the theories of organization? Explain classical, neo-classical, modern theories of organization. 10. Which approach between scientific management and neoclassical theories of organization do you support and why? Section 4: Government and Bureaucracy 1. What is bureaucracy? 2. Nature of the state of Bangladesh? 3. Colonial regime? 4. Characteristics of BD PA? 5. Function of BD government? 6. Administrative structure of Bangladesh Government 7. Culture and behavior of bureaucracy 8. Have we inherited colonialism partially or fully from the British Colonial Rule? Section 5: PA and PrA in NRM 1. What are the prime functions of Govt in NRM? 2. What strength does the Govt have? 3. What happens when PA fails to operate in NRM? 4. Why PrA/NGOs are needed? 5. What activities NGOs do demonstrate? 6. Present status of administration in NRM in Bangladesh Section 6: Institutional Settings for NRM 1. Discuss in details the role of government in NRM. 2. Discuss the functions of private organizations in NRM. 3. Write the names of at least ten organizations that have leverages on NRM. Discuss the functions of two from them that you think are most important in NRM. 4. Make a positional statement as to which organizations between government and nongovernment are doing better NRM. Section 7: e-Governance 1. What is e-governance? What are its benefits? The history and present status (problems and prospects) of e-governance in Bangladesh 2. Discuss the functions of e-governance in the following perspectives: a) Dealings between Government and People b) Dealing between Government and Business c) Dealing between Government and Government 3. Discuss how e-governance impacts in : a. Creation and management of NR b. Corruption and efficiency in BFD and DoE