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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMMES
Degrees of higher education conferred in Lithuanian higher schools in the area of Public Administration as well as entry requirements, and minimum number of years required to obtain this degree are presented in Table 2.
Table 2
LITHUANIAN ACADEMIC DEGREES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (PA)
Institution of higher education
Name of the programme
Name of academic degree in Lithuanian
(in English)
Entry requirements
Minimal number of years
KTU LTA
PA Bachelor's
Viesojo administravimo (VA) bakalauras (Bachelor in PA)
Certificate of Secondary Education; Selection process
4
VDU PA Bachelor's VA bakalauras (Bachelor in PA) Certificate of Secondary Education; Selection process
4
KTU VU
LTA
PA Master's
VA magistras (Master in PA) Bachelor's degree or Diploma of higher education; Selection process
2
KTU Doctoral studies in management and administration Socialiniu mokslu daktaras (Doctor of social sciences) Master's degree; Selection process
4
Note: All the courses taught in the PA programs and discussed above are presented in the Annex 2.
Main topics analysed in the courses directly related to the theory and practice of public administration are presented below.
Kaunas University of Technology
PA Bachelor's programme
Introduction to Government
State development theories and their conceptions. States' typology and forms. Political regimes, legal systems, constitutionalism. Types and systems of elections. Institutions and functions of the state and legal authorities, political parties and international relations. The structure and functions of the political and legal institutions of the Republic of Lithuania.
Introduction to Public Administration
The purpose of this course is to provide students the knowledge of the field of public administration. It provides the student with the basic concepts of PA, also the components of the field such as government structure, relationships among the levels of government, administrative and political processes, political-administrative dichotomy, management skills and ethics in public service.
Management
Methods of management. Elements of management cycle: planning, organisation, stimulation, control, regulation. Decision-making process. Strategic and operative management.
Introduction to Public Policy and Analysis
Strategy and policy of public institutions. Premises and hierarchy of the formation of policy of public institutions. Policy management. Administrating of public institutions: functions, structures, management organisation, interrelationships with other institutions and society.
Introduction to Public Organisation Theories
The course presents the basic of macro and micro organisational analysis. It covers the basic of organisation theory. Also covers concepts of structure and design, power and conflict, motivation, leadership, group behaviour, organisational effectiveness and development.
Ethics and Responsibility
Conception of professional ethics. Changing concepts of professional ethics. Justice and theories of equality. Models of ethical decision making. Ethical problems and aspects of the life of Lithuanian society. Ethical codes of professional activity: ethical norms and obligations for state officers, businessman, social workers, and teachers.
Fundamentals of Constitutional Law
Origin of state and law. Philosophy of law concepts, such as the law norms, legal relations, legal responsibility and the Constitution as basic form of expression of law. Features of 1992 Lithuanian constitution. Constitutional supervision. Constitutional rights of an individual and citizenship.
Administrative Law
Definition, principles, and sources of administrative law. The structure of governmental administrative and legal institutions. Violation and amenability of administration law. Sanctions. Liability law. Institutions of property law. Copyright and the law of inheritance. Registration of enterprise. Conditions of insurance and responsibility.
Labour Law
Introduction to labour law. Labour and collective contracts. Work time and rest time. The conceptions of giving a job, citizen's employment and unemployment. Social guarantees. Labour security. Labour and collective conflicts. Labour discipline. State social insurance. Child's right protection, labour and security guarantees. Institutions of labour law enforcement.
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Social Research
Science, society and social research. The process and problems of social research: survey of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Sampling and survey methods. Questionnaire development. Comparison of data collection methods and data analysis. Reporting research results.
Systems of State Governance and Administration
Study of the organisation, functions, and powers of state, county and municipal government. Analysis of the administrative and judicial reform in the context to the Lithuanian's integration of the European Union.
Principles and Administration of Local Government
The course examines the laws establishing the Lithuanian local government structure and regulating their functions. It also examines the European Union mandates applying to local governments and local government functions in other western democracies. It also looks at the financial, personnel and service provision from a local government perspective.
Introduction to Finance
The finance role and functions. Evaluating and forecasting of organisation financial performance, risk. The time value of money. Securities and their valuation. Short and long term asset financial management. Cost of capital improvement. Evaluation of investment projects.
Administration of Public Budget and Finance
Review of public finance and budget. Lithuania's budget system. State and municipality budgets. Tools and techniques of budget formulation and implementation. Finance policy and systems of finance management.
Public Personnel Administration
The essence of human resource management. Planning and evaluation of personnel. Recruitment, selection and training of personnel. The concepts of career development. Job evaluation and salary. Rights of the employees of public administration institutions.
Leadership in Public Institutions
The classical management and leadership ideas connected with public organisation management will be addressed, as well as Mintzberg's theory on the roles of the executives. Requirements for leaders of public institutions are analysed as well as issues of work planning, authority development, work style and ethics.
Introduction to Urban Planning and Development
Planning in its historical context, zoning, regional, and national planning. The main principals of the urban planning. Legal and administrative management issues. Overview of the main legal instruments in the city development. Overview of Lithuanian urban legislation. Economic and environmental principles in urban planing. Urban planning and social policy . Sustainability as a new challenge and principle of the planing in the 21st century.
Strategic Planning in Public Administration
The notion and essence of strategic planning and its relations with other fields of management. Process of strategic management. Vision, mission, philosophy, tasks as objectives of organisations. Development and execution of strategic programs. Management of the change.
Environment, Society and Technology
Interdisciplinary approach to the advancement of science and technology and its implications for the emergence of ecological problems and their solution. Environmental policy and management in Lithuania and foreign countries. Public participation in environmental, science and technology policy.
Introduction to European Integration
The origin of the European Union (EU): the first European projects, their essence, the main ideologists. Conception and principles of federalism. Legal background of the Union: ECSC, Rome Agreement, Single European Act. Maastricht resolutions, intergovernmental conference of 1996 – 1997. Amsterdam agreement. Common market and conception of Monetary Union. Competition policy. EU institutions and the problem of member-states sovereignty.
PA Master's programme
The Principles of Public Administration and Comparative Analysis
This is an introductory course into Public Administration for Master's students, where public administration processes and practices are presented by using political, legal, managerial, and occupational approaches. Government structures, relationships among the levels of government, administrative and political processes in different countries are analysed by comparative method
Public Policy and Analysis
The subject of public policy and its analysis points out the behaviour of public institutions regarding the political and economic problems of society. Subject consists of policy formulation, decision making, structuring of problems, policy monitoring, and of methodology evaluating political phenomena and processes.
Public Organisation Theories
Varieties of organisation theory. The controversy around four perspectives: law and legal authority, efficiency and rationality, psychology and social relations, politics and power. Organisation structure and design. Organisational decision making. Formal and informal communication networks. Motivation and bureau setting. Organisation change and development.
Ethics in Public Administration
Analysis of public management principles and functions in the context of ethics and accountability, including bureaucratic discretion, constitutional values, and professionalism.
Intergovernmental Relations
In-depth analysis of intergovernmental relations, including problems of interaction between central and local government, governing and administrative systems. Case studies on the problems on state-local interactions.
Computer-based Project Management in Public Administration
Organisational structures of public administration and their impact on projects. Defining project mission and goals. Project scope, performance, duration and cost. Feasibility study. Detailed planning. Activity definition. Scheduling and resource allocation. Budgeting and cost estimation. Project risk evaluation. Leading, monitoring, control and finishing a project.
Country Development Strategy
Strategic development of country has been analysed from the perspective of emerging information based systems. Two main methodologies competitiveness of nations and intelligence society, are used as a basic for problem analysis. Comparative analysis of international experience is a basic tool.
Urban Planning and Development
Zoning, regional, national planning. Overview of the main legal instruments. Physical planning and approval process, the co-ordinating institutions. Economical aspects of city development. Legal principles involved in protecting the environment, including air, water, waste, noise pollution and landscape. Social Policy. Urban transportation policy analysis. Sustainability concept. The main trends of urban planning in Lithuania.
Administration of Public Finance and Budget
Basics of public finance policy. Instruments of fiscal policy and instruments of implementation. Principles of budgeting and financial management. Budgeting policies for various levels of public management. Tax classification. National economy and public affairs. Import/export taxes, corporate taxes. Crediting. Public economy development. Financial reports. Systems of accounting and financial management.
Management of Finance Institutions
Comparative analysis of finance institutions, structures of management, external regulation, institutions of control. Management of banks, financial companies, credit union, insurance and pension funds. Management of securities exchange.
Human Resource Management in Public Administration
Human resource management conceptions. Human resources as main asset of society. Planning, developing and administrating of human resources at public institutions. Specific features of personnel, its administration. Job relations and its regulation.
Leadership
Nature of leadership. Essence of manager's work and management. Perspectives of effective leadership. Contingency theories. Leadership “by participation” and delegation of functions. Sources of power and influence. Processes of influence and effectiveness of management. Early concepts of charismatic leadership. Transformative and cultural leadership.
European Integration Process
Constitutional background of EU. EU law. EU institutions. Common market and creation of European Monetary Union. Peculiarities of economical and political integration in Central and Eastern Europe. Conditions of the membership in EU and possible issues of negotiations between Lithuania and EU. The comparative value of positive and negative consequences of integration.
Vilnius University
PA Master's Programme
Theories of Public Administration Models of bureaucracy. Modern public management. Structure and organisation of public administration. Recruiting of officials. Organisation of the political executive and co-ordination of its activities. Control and responsibility of officials. Public administration and interest groups. Public administration in the European Union.
Public Policy and Public Choice
Public choice theory as a model of public policy analysis. Budget maximisation and office formation. Interest groups and collective actions. Control of officials.
Public Economy and Finance
Finance system and its structure. State budget of social insurance fund. Concept of tax and principles of taxation. Classification of taxes. Direct and indirect taxes. Tax administration in the Republic of Lithuania. Financial control.
Interest Groups and Governmental Policy
Relations of interest groups with institutional structures (political parties, bureaucracy) and their place and role in political process. Analysis of activities of interest groups acting in concrete political systems and their environment. Problems of interest groups activities in Lithuania.
Human Resources
Context of human resource management. Human resources in organisation. Development of human resources. Labour relations. Comparative human resource management.
Labour Law
Concept and sources of labour law. Legal organisation of employment. Labour contracts: concept, form, changes, end of contract. Concept of working time. Salary. Guarantees and compensation in labour law. Legal institution of responsibility. Labour discipline, security and conflicts.
Industrial Policy
Theory and methodology of political economy. Political economy of integration. Political economy of commercial agreements. Political economy of monetary policy. Industrial politics and regulation of economical activity. Integration in Europe.
Law Academy of Lithuania
PA Bachelor's programme
Introduction to Studies
Essence of the speciality of public administration, functions of state officials, methods of their work and areas of activity in the context of problems related to eurointegration.
Management
Understanding of organisations and characteristics of their activities. Methods of management. Elements of management cycle: planning, organisation, stimulation, control, regulation. Decision-making process. Strategic and operative management.
Personnel Management
Personnel management as a specific area of management. Its essence, content and forms. Characteristics of personnel management in the system of state management and public administration - essence and methods of managers work, content and style of management characteristics of decision making in management. Conflicts as phenomenon of organisation's activity, strategy and tactics of their resolution.
Quantitative Methods in Management
Application of qualitative methods in solving management problems. Criteria of decision-making. The main methods of operation research and their application in planning, organising, motivating and controlling management process.
System of Public Administration
Structure of the public administration system, its structure, main parts and institutions. Legal, economical, social, psychological, informational, technological aspects of institutions of public administration. Content, forms and methods of activities in legal, state management and local government as well as public institutions.
Office Administration
Concept of office administration. Structure of an office, systems of its management and information. Organisation of personnel work. Legal, economical and other aspects of office administration. Strategy of an office.
Management Information Systems
Functions, structure and elements of information systems. Treatment of information and presentation of information. Management information systems and their life cycles. Data basis.
Demography
Sources of demography and methods of demographical research. Economic and business demography. Demography of offence. Methods of preparation of social and economic programs.
European Integration Processes
EU and structure of its management. Characteristics of implementation of unified market, security and foreign policy. Technology of decision-making. Budget of the EU, economic and currency unions. Foreign trade and regional policy. Lithuania's steps towards integration to the economical and political structures of the EU.
Theory of Law
Concepts and methods of law theory. Legal system, its structure and functions. Norm of law, its structure and varieties, legal acts. Interaction of law and morality. Law-creation. Implementation of law, mechanisms of legal regulation, effectiveness of legitimacy and law.
Constitutional Law of Lithuania
Sources of constitutional law. Development of Lithuanian constitutional law. Understanding of state and principles of its functioning. Types of state power. Legislative process. Constitutional control, legal constitutional status of an individual, problems of citizenship, election law.
Civil Law
Understanding of civil law and its problems. Problems of transactions and responsibility. Legal regulation of property, right to other people's things. The right of inheritance. Liability law. Copyright law. Family law.
Administrative Law
Concept of administrative law. Norms of administrative law and legal relations, management acts, procedures of law enforcement, its indications.
Civil Process
Subjects of civil process and legal relations. Expenses, penalties, evidence, actions. Stages of the process. Appeal processes, non-action legal procedure, implementation processes.
Fundamentals of Criminal Responsibility
Requirements of criminal law, concept of crime, composition of crime, object and subject of crime, conditions to commit a crime. Complicity and its forms. System of penalties, their types. Imposition of fines, discharge from penalty and /or from criminal responsibility, prescription in application of criminal laws.
Finance and Tax Law
System and sources of finance law. Norms of finance law and financial legal relation. Financial control and their types. The structure of the budget of Lithuanian Republic and legal regulation of state income. Legal conditions of bank credit and money turnover and settlement.
Protection of Human Rights
Concept of human rights. Major international documents on protection of human rights: documents of the United Nations, European Convention on human rights, European social charter. Enforcement of international documents on human rights in Lithuania.
Labour Law
System and principles of labour law. Legal regulation of employment. Collective agreements, labour contracts. Material responsibility of employer and employee. Labour arguments. Enforcement of labour laws.
Institutional Law of the European Union
Legislative procedures and budget formation of the EU. System of the material law. Relations of the European Union and national law. Legal acts of the EU justice court and their role.
PA Master's programme
Theory of Management and Public Administration
Development of the Theory of management and administration under the conditions of European integration and social, economic and technological globalisation. Current issues of management and public administration in Lithuania.
Government Development Strategy
Strategic development of government is analysed from the perspective of emerging Knowledge Society. Two main methodologies, i.e. competitiveness of nations and intelligence society, are used as a basis for problem analysis. Comparative analysis of international experience is a basic tool.
Decision-making Theory
Types of decisions, content of strategic and operational decisions. Qualitative and quantitative decisions. Modelling as the main method of decision substantiation. Optimal and quazi-optimal decisions. Prognoses and operational research methods, peculiarities of their implementation in management process. Application of probability theory and methods of mathematical statistics.
Office Administration
Content of office activities, formation of strategy of their activities and its implementation. Planning, organisation of office work, selection of personnel, account, control. Use of information technologies.
Tax Administration
System of tax law, legal norms. Procedures of tax collection, acts of tax law. Responsibility of subjects.
Information Technologies in Management
Information communication in computer nets and search of this information. Problems of computerisation in management institution and ways of their solution. Information systems in Lithuanian state institutions. Computer nets INTERNET, LITNET, VIKT. Management of data flow. Specialised systems of decision-making and management.
Research Work
Ways of formulation problems in management and public administration. Possibilities of modelling of public administration processes. Ways and forms of conclusion formulation, evaluation and approbation of results. Application of modern technologies in solution of science problems.
Management of European Integration Processes
Essence of European integration processes management. The EU in the structure of international organisations. Problems of interaction between the EU and national governments of its state-members, strategy and tactics of decision-making, political and economical ways of decision-making. Problems of the EU development. Principles and methods of activity of Lithuanian state, local and public institutions in seeking EU membership.
Social Marketing
Social marketing as the chain in the system of formation essential social, political, economic, technological and information development. Methods and functions of social marketing, formation and implementation of strategies. Marketing in the system of public administration. Analytical research in the system of social marketing. Possibilities for the development of social marketing in Lithuania.
Administrative Responsibility
Norms of administrative law. Relations governed by law and means to ensure legitimacy in the system of public administration. Concept of administrative responsibility and features, which delimit it from other types of legal responsibility. Administrative constraint and its types.
Criminology
Basic of criminology. Types of criminality, indicators and characteristic features. Legal socialisation of an individual and mechanisms of individual criminal behaviour. Crime prevention.
Constitutional Status of an Individual
Constitutional legal status of an individual. The main constitutional rights and freedom: right to life, freedom, inviolability of person, information, right to participate in governing one's country. Fundamentals of creation of the rule-of law state in Lithuania.
Legal Aspects of Lithuanian and the European Union Relations
Problems of application of the EU legal acts in Lithuania. Co-ordination of Lithuanian laws with the EU law. Rules and exemptions of free moving of goods, services, labour force and capital between the EU and Lithuania. Ways to implement contract obligations of Lithuania and the EU.
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