Subject(s): organization theory -- Nature and scope of field- Meaning of public administration, integral and managerial views, private administration, modern public administration -- Public administration - evolution of discipline : Egyptian, Greek, Roman , Chines, Indian, German & Austrian cameralist period , new public administration -- Approaches to study of public administration : Legal/ historical approach, institutional and structural approach, scientific management approach, human relations approach, psychological approach, behavioral approach, decision making approach, public policy making approach, comparative administrative system approach, ecological approach, contingency approach -- Public administration- concerns : law, psychology, sociology, philosophy, environmental dimensions, moral dimensions, sociobiology, bio-politics and public administration, science and technology and public administration -- Public administration- contexts : Comparative public administration, power, development and modernization, public administration in developing countries, international administration, expanded world community -- Evolving conceptions in public administration : Modern construction in public administration, Weberian model of bureaucracy, Riggsian model, Prismatic Sala model, Canteen model, General system model, democratic administration, new public administration -- Administration- control and accountability : Political accountability, legislative accountability, judicial accountability, judicial aontrol of remedies, informal accountability, normative accountability, representative bureaucracy, public participation -- Organization theory-organization behavior and organization development -- Nature of organization : Weber's model, Tom Burns model, Gouldner's model, Etzioni' s model, formal and informal organization, line organization, staff organization, functional organization, matric form of organization -- Organization Theory : Machine model, Henry Fayol's operational management model, Mooney and Reiley's model, classical administrative theory, Gulick and urwick's model, Mary Parkers Follet's model, Weber's bureaucratic model, new classical organization theory, behavioral theory, decision making theory of organisation, modern theory of organization, system approach to organization, contingency theory -- Principles of organization : Mooney, Reileigh and Willoughby's contribution, Fayol's principles of organization, Gulick and Urwick's contribution, centralization v/s decentralization, staff principles -- Structure of organization- chief executive : Public corporation and independent regulatory commission, kinds of staff agencies, technical staff and auxiliary staff, line-staff conflicts, improving staff line relationships -- Structure of organisation- departments, public undertakings, boards and commissions, field agencies -- Organization behavior , Organization development - Maslow's views, Charles Argyris view, McGregor's views, Herzberg's views, Likert's view, organizational development and groups, T-group, tavistock study group