B2017 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

This course introduces students to public management, i.e., the decisions and actions of public officials in managerial roles. At the end of the course, students understand how a public manager achieves in an effective way, at all levels of government, the goals of public policies.

Contenuti

• Introduction to management
• Private versus public management
• Performance Management in the Public Sector
• The New Public Management and the Public Governance
• Citizen engagement
• The Creation and co-creation of Public Value
• Collaborative Governance in times of uncertainty
  
• Strategic Planning in the Public Sector: processes and tools
• The Strategic Thinking: meaning and underlying variables
• How to create an effective Strategic Plan
• A comparative study on International Strategic Plans

Testi/Bibliografia

Van Dooren, W., Bouckaert, G., & Halligan, J. (2015). Performance management in the public sector. Routledge. [chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9]

Bryson, J. M. (2018). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement. John Wiley & Sons. [chapters 1-7]

Metodi didattici

Lectures, case studies and workshops

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

For attendant students the assessment is based on a written exam (marks 50%) and a group project (presented at the end of the entire course).

The group project relies on discussion questions (marks 20%) and case study analysis (marks 30%).

For non-attendant students the assessment is based on a full written exam organized at the end of the entire course.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

The teaching tools are slides, exercises, projector and blackboard

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Luca Mazzara