Learning Outcomes
In Walden’s M.P.A. program, you will
- Explain the evaluation of the major theories, ideas, and concepts associated with the development of American public administration including those of scholars and practitioners who have contributed to the field’s development.
- Analyze how organizations work by explaining the concepts, theories, and methods of organizational theory and behavior.
- Demonstrate the application of terminology, structures, cultures, values history, and relationships among the three socio/economic sectors.
- Apply a variety of data analysis methodologies and research methodologies to scholarly work.
- Describe and assess the applicability of technology to the cultures, management styles, and legal climates of governmental and nonprofit organizations.
- Articulate the principle theories concerning financing government and nonprofit activities.
- Be conversant in the assumptions, philosophies, and methods of human resource management.
- Understand and apply moral development theory at the individual and organizational level of analysis.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how policies are developed, approved, implemented, and evaluated.
- Integrate the concepts of public policy development and analysis with implementation practices of public administration and nonprofit management fields.
