In this assignment, the public administrator expands on the selected issue challenges by assessing its impact within and outside of an agency.
Using the issue you selected from Assignment 1, write a three to four page paper in which you respond to the following questions:
1. Evaluate an agency the issue impacts and assess the level of interdependence between planning, human resource management, and budgeting. Create a scenario in which you explain the overall manner in which these functions interact. Justify your response with examples. Note: Take the selected issue from Assignment #1 and discuss how each of these areas overall influence the good and bad in your issue within the agency.
2. Based on your response to Question #1 regarding human resource management, construct two (2) competencies that public personnel managers need to possess in order to minimize the impact of the policy issue. Justify your response. Note: In this question, the student focuses directly on what competencies a personnel manager may need in order to address the policy issue.
3. Based on your response to Question #1 regarding budgeting, take a position on whether the politics of budgeting will negatively or positively impacted outcomes on budget policy and formation overall. Provide a rationale for your response. Note: In this question, the student focuses on how and in what matter the agencies budget may influence the policy issue.
4. Based on your response to Question #1 regarding planning, analyze the impact of political responsivenessand propose two (2) challenges that political responsiveness may present for management. Note: In this question, the student discuss how public administrators may respond to the issue and what challenges the issue presents to management.
5. Include at least four peer-reviewed references (no more than five years old) from material outside the textbook. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental WebsitesWikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites ending in anything other than ".gov" do not qualify as academic resources.