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Theory and methodology of public service

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Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

1 Semester

3

Learning outcomes: to know theoretical and methodological bases, classical and modern theories and models and historical milestones of public service formation; to be able to analyse the particularities of public service in foreign countries, define the social target, tasks and functions of public service; to develop the skills of working through the legal acts of the civil service, the ability to debate, to justify their own opinions regarding the models of public service, to verify and elaborate information regarding the civil service, to improve and develop professional, intellectual and cultural levels, to present the results of analytical research on the professional competence requirements of civil servants with regard to the functions of the posts; to substantiate the needs for improvement of the civil service system in Ukraine and the application of foreign experience; to explore the practical aspects of ensuring the professional competence of civil servants

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to know: basic principles of public administration/civil administration, fundamentals of legislative support for the activities of public authorities. to be able to use analytical and statistical methods of information processing, work with national and international databases, scientific and other sources of information. to be capable of analyzing, synthesizing, processing and visualizing statistical, sociological and other data, working with legal and regulatory frameworks, designing and presenting data using Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, Power Point etc.)

Topic 1. Introduction to the academic discipline “Theory and methodology of public service”. Topic 2. Social conditionality of the emergence of civil service. Topic 3. Classical and modern theories and models of public/civil service. Topic 4. Foreign experience of public/civil service. Topic 5. Social goal, tasks and functions of the public/civil service of Ukraine Topic 6. Positions in public authorities. Positions of public and civil service. Topic 7. Legal status of civil servants in Ukraine. Topic 8. Civil service in Ukraine

Recommended and necessary literature 1. Derzhavna sluzhba. Pidruchnyk u 2 t. Nats. akad. derzh. upr. pry Prezydentovi Ukrainy. Kyiv, Odesa : NADU, 2012. T. 1. 372 s. 2. Derzhavna sluzhba. Pidruchnyk u 2 t. Nats. akad. derzh. upr. pry Prezydentovi Ukrainy. Kyiv, Odesa : NADU, 2013. T. 2. 348 s. 3. Publichna sluzhba. Navch. posib. / S. M. Serohin, N. A. Lypovska, S. I. Borodin ta in. Dnipro : HRANI, 2018. 384 s. 4. Publichna sluzhba: systemna paradyhma : kol. monohr. / K. O. Vashchenko, S. M. Serohin, Ye. I. Borodin, N. A. Lypovska, N. H. Sorokina [ta in.]; za zah. red. S. M. Serohina. Dnipro : DRIDU NADU, 2017. 320 s. 5. Problemy reformuvannia derzhavnoi sluzhby ta sluzhby v orhanakh mistsevoho samovriaduvannia v Ukraini. Monohrafiia / avh. kol. : T. E. Vasylevska, I. H. Surai, O. I. Vasylieva ta in. Kyiv : NADU, 2018. 256 s.

Semester evaluation of such types of work as: discussions, questioning, problem solving, testing, control works are carried out in the classes, which take place according to the timetable. Independent work of students consists of systematic study of normative and legislative acts and scientific sources on public service. The learnt material is checked during each practical lesson in the form of an oral examination. In addition, the results of independent processing of the material are checked in the form of short written papers, each of which is graded a maximum of 5 points. The work is completed by the student completing additional computational assignments in the discipline.

Knowledge control is based on the ECTS system, which provides for a two-level evaluation of the learnt material, the theoretical training evaluation is 25% of the total semester grade; the practical training evaluation is 75% of the total semester grade. Semester evaluation (MAX - 80 points / MIN - 48 points): 1. Practical (seminar) sessions - max. 70 points/min. 42 points. 2. Independent work - max. 10 points/min. 6 points. Retaking the semester control in order to improve a positive grade is not allowed. Final evaluation: The final control is carried out in the form of a presentation of an individual task, with a maximum of 20 points, carried out at the last practical session. The final evaluation is based on the results of the semester as the sum of the points received during the semester, including the points received for the independent work and the individual work.

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