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PAD 500 Week 1 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 1 DQ 1
"The Centralia Disaster." Please respond to the following:
· Propose who you believe was responsible for the violent deaths of 111 miners in Centralia, Illinois, justify your choice, and suggest ways by which the disaster could have been prevented.
· Analyze what the case says about the definition, role, and function of public administration in modern society.
Week 1 DQ 2
"Why Public Administration?" Please respond to the following:
· Describe what Wilson saw as the central problem in creating “ good” public administration.
· According to Wilson, why should a study of public administration be developed in America? Explain the sources and purposes of its development.
· Speculate about why a business administrator needs to know how government, especially public administration, works.
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Week 1 DQ 1
"The Centralia Disaster." Please respond to the following:
· Propose who you believe was responsible for the violent deaths of 111 miners in Centralia, Illinois, justify your choice, and suggest ways by which the disaster could have been prevented.
· Analyze what the case says about the definition, role, and function of public administration in modern society.
Week 1 DQ 2
"Why Public Administration?" Please respond to the following:
· Describe what Wilson saw as the central problem in creating “ good” public administration.
· According to Wilson, why should a study of public administration be developed in America? Explain the sources and purposes of its development.
· Speculate about why a business administrator needs to know how government, especially public administration, works.
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PAD 500 Week 9 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 9 DQ 1
"Reform." Please respond to the following:
· Describe four incentive programs that can lead to an improvement or a decline in the productivity of a public agency. Justify your choices.
· Explain e-governance and assess its relationship to public administration.
Week 9 DQ 2
"Philadelphia’s Municipal Wireless Network." Please respond to the following:
· Describe and analyze four strategies the city of Philadelphia has used to balance and manage the interests of its various stakeholders when planning for and implementing its Municipal Wireless Network.
· Speculate: In what ways does technology shape organizational structure? Include specific, concrete examples as part of your response.
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PAD 500 Week 8 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 8 DQ 1
"Leadership Skills." Please respond to the following:
· At times, public administrators of all kinds have to make unpopular decisions. Using the articles you read in the e-Activities, evaluate at least two leadership skills that are required for making difficult decisions, and propose what actions are necessary to implement an unpopular policy or decision.
· Identify and explain two practical examples of the advantages and disadvantages of group decision making in the context of deciding on how to spend revenue obtained from a new sales tax.
Week 8 DQ 2
"Public Service Operating Conditions." Please respond to the following:
· Describe and analyze Lois Wise’s notion of the “operating conditions of public service.”
· Suggest what the case study and the readings in the e-Activities indicate about the modern complexities of professional personnel in the public setting.
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PAD 500 Week 7 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 7 DQ 1
"Performance Legislation." Please respond to the following:
· Explain in detail how the National Performance Review contributed to civil service reinvention since 2000, and identify and explain four elements that demonstrate the contribution.
· Describe and evaluate three central features of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
Week 7 DQ 2
"Public Recruitment." Please respond to the following:
· Analyze and explain the last five years of employment data available in the Executive and Legislative and Judicial Branch categories. Predict and justify your position by stating what the available data may indicate in the next five years.
· Evaluate the concept of “comparable worth,” summarizing the arguments pro and con. What position do you take? Pay special attention to the equity issues involved.
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Week 7 DQ 1
"Performance Legislation." Please respond to the following:
· Explain in detail how the National Performance Review contributed to civil service reinvention since 2000, and identify and explain four elements that demonstrate the contribution.
· Describe and evaluate three central features of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
Week 7 DQ 2
"Public Recruitment." Please respond to the following:
· Analyze and explain the last five years of employment data available in the Executive and Legislative and Judicial Branch categories. Predict and justify your position by stating what the available data may indicate in the next five years.
· Evaluate the concept of “comparable worth,” summarizing the arguments pro and con. What position do you take? Pay special attention to the equity issues involved.
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PAD 500 Week 6 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 6 DQ 1
"Government Revenue." Please respond to the following:
· Identify and explain at least three property tax revenues that have suffered in the current environment.
· Based on the e-Activities, elaborate on at least three indications the U.S. Federal Deficit Chart and the 2012 U.S. Budget provide for predicting revenue levels.
Week 6 DQ 2
"Budgets as Political Agendas." Please respond to the following:
· Identify and describe two reasons why Irene Rubin (Stillman, Chapter 12) believes that budgets are political.
· Explain and take a position on at least two indications from the U.S. Federal Deficit Chart and the 2012 U.S. Budget used for determining the political nature of budgets.
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PAD 500 Week 5 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 5 DQ 1
"Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)." Please respond to the following:
· Select the PERT technique you consider MOST valuable when altering or enhancing steps associated with reengineering. Explain your choice.
· Select the PERT technique you consider LEAST valuable when altering or enhancing steps associated with reengineering. Explain your choice.
· Describe and analyze how the two techniques you chose influence the Critical Path Method.
Week 5 DQ 2
"Strategic Plans." Please respond to the following:
· Identify and describe what it is about strategic plans that make them difficult to implement. Support your argument with an example.
· As the author notes, the effective communication of a policy analysis to policymakers is frequently difficult. Explain the sources of this difficulty, and describe at least three ways you might attempt to overcome it.
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Week 5 DQ 1
"Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)." Please respond to the following:
· Select the PERT technique you consider MOST valuable when altering or enhancing steps associated with reengineering. Explain your choice.
· Select the PERT technique you consider LEAST valuable when altering or enhancing steps associated with reengineering. Explain your choice.
· Describe and analyze how the two techniques you chose influence the Critical Path Method.
Week 5 DQ 2
"Strategic Plans." Please respond to the following:
· Identify and describe what it is about strategic plans that make them difficult to implement. Support your argument with an example.
· As the author notes, the effective communication of a policy analysis to policymakers is frequently difficult. Explain the sources of this difficulty, and describe at least three ways you might attempt to overcome it.
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PAD 500 Week 4 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 4 DQ 1
"Systems Theory and Collaboration." Please respond to the following:
· Explain at least two ways in which systems theory may be used in the Social Security Administration. You may want to refer back to Week 1 e-Activity of Franklin Roosevelt’s speech on Social Security as a historical reference.
· Based on the Stillman reading, analyze how the authors demonstrate a deeper application of systems theory than what is presented in Denhardt, Chapter 5.
Week 4 DQ 2
"Managing Organizations." Please respond to the following:
· Compare and contrast three separate approaches to the managerial task: organizational culture, organization development, and Total Quality Management. Explain which appears to be the most effective means for coming to an understanding of managing the public organization.
· Debate: In this "age of reinvention and managerialist government," we still need to be concerned about the “ethic of citizenship.” Take a position on whether you agree or disagree, present it, and support it with specific examples.
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PAD 500 Week 3 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 3 DQ 1
"Understanding Federalism. Based on the section, “ Picket-Fence Federalism,” in Denhardt, Chapter 3" Please respond to the following:
· Give your own interpretation of picket-fence federalism.
· List and explain at least three strategies states used to respond to welfare reform following the implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. Relate your answer specifically to state discretionary rule-making and changes in the categorization of case studies.
Week 3 DQ 2
"Intervention." Please respond to the following:
· Using all three e-Activities and with reference to Intervention Techniques For Integrating Ethics Into Agency Operations in Denhardt, Chapter 4, select the two most effective of the 13 Intervention Techniques for Integrating Ethics into Agency Operations and defend your choices.
· Stillman’s Chapter 16 Case Study describes the ethical tensions that may accompany leadership in the public sector. Analyze the ways in which George Tenet was challenged ethically, and present and assess at least two resolution strategies he used to handle these challenges.
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Week 3 DQ 1
"Understanding Federalism. Based on the section, “ Picket-Fence Federalism,” in Denhardt, Chapter 3" Please respond to the following:
· Give your own interpretation of picket-fence federalism.
· List and explain at least three strategies states used to respond to welfare reform following the implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. Relate your answer specifically to state discretionary rule-making and changes in the categorization of case studies.
Week 3 DQ 2
"Intervention." Please respond to the following:
· Using all three e-Activities and with reference to Intervention Techniques For Integrating Ethics Into Agency Operations in Denhardt, Chapter 4, select the two most effective of the 13 Intervention Techniques for Integrating Ethics into Agency Operations and defend your choices.
· Stillman’s Chapter 16 Case Study describes the ethical tensions that may accompany leadership in the public sector. Analyze the ways in which George Tenet was challenged ethically, and present and assess at least two resolution strategies he used to handle these challenges.
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PAD 500 Week 2 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 2 DQ 1
"Relationships of Leadership." Please respond to the following:
· Construct an analysis of public administration at the present moment as it relates to the duties of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government.
· Evaluate the three basic forms of city government from the point of view of a departmental head.
Week 2 DQ 2
"The Political Context. Based on the reading of Federalist Paper 51" Please respond to the following:
· Describe how the Founders' conception of the Constitution (reflected in Madison's arguments) influenced the evolution of American public administration.
· Explain three reasons why observers see growth in the development of public service
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Week 2 DQ 1
"Relationships of Leadership." Please respond to the following:
· Construct an analysis of public administration at the present moment as it relates to the duties of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government.
· Evaluate the three basic forms of city government from the point of view of a departmental head.
Week 2 DQ 2
"The Political Context. Based on the reading of Federalist Paper 51" Please respond to the following:
· Describe how the Founders' conception of the Constitution (reflected in Madison's arguments) influenced the evolution of American public administration.
· Explain three reasons why observers see growth in the development of public service
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Week 2 DQ 1
"Relationships of Leadership." Please respond to the following:
· Construct an analysis of public administration at the present moment as it relates to the duties of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government.
· Evaluate the three basic forms of city government from the point of view of a departmental head.
Week 2 DQ 2
"The Political Context. Based on the reading of Federalist Paper 51" Please respond to the following:
· Describe how the Founders' conception of the Constitution (reflected in Madison's arguments) influenced the evolution of American public administration.
· Explain three reasons why observers see growth in the development of public service
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PAD 500 Week 11 Discussion Questions – Strayer NEW
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Week 11 DQ 1
"Public Administration, the Citizen, and the Consumer." Please respond to the following:
· Describe how your attitude toward public administration and public administrators has changed. If it has not changed, explain why.
· Speculate on how the course might affect your career or career plans.
· Will the course cause you to change how you interact with public service people as a consumer? As a citizen? Explain.
Week 11 DQ 2
"Public Administration Careers." Please respond to the following:
· Describe the public administration career that would MOST appeal to you.
· Describe the public administration career that would LEAST appeal to you.
· Explain how the course changed your perspective on public administration careers in general.
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