1.Assess the level of interdependence between planning, program evaluation, human resource management, and budgeting. Create a scenario in which you explain the overall manner in which these functions interact.

2.Construct two competencies that public personnel managers need to possess in order to minimize the impact of political preference in program implementation. Justify your response.

3.Take a position on whether the politics of budgeting have negatively or positively impacted outcomes on budget policy and formation overall. Provide a rationale for your response.

4.Analyze the main variables that impact the relationship between political responsiveness and managerial effectiveness. Propose two challenges that political responsiveness may present for management

Note: You will explore your proposed challenges in depth within Assignment.

5.Include at least four academic references from material outside the textbook and no more than one governmental Website.

Note: Appropriate academic resources include academic and governmental Websites, scholarly texts, and peer-reviewed articles. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites ending in anything other than ".gov" do not qualify as academic resources.