688 Public Sector Management
Content
- Introduction to public management
- Management techniques and functions
- Decision-making process
- Public, private and non-profit organizations and specifics of public sector management and organization
- NPM ideology
- Measuring efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector, performance management
- Quality assurance and management in public organizations
- Analysis of the environment of public organizations, institutional isomorphism and hybrid organizations
- Politics and management of public organizations
- Strategies and changes in public organizations
- Management in non-profit (third sector) organizations
- Marketing in public and non-profit organizations.
Objectives and competences
Student
- uses basic concepts of management for decision-making process in the public sector,
- applies fundamental managerial concepts for the efficient and effective process of management,
- uses decision-making methods for problem solving,
- relates managerial problems in private and public organisations,
- demonstrates the significance of management development in public organisations.
Competences
- To understand differences in public, private and non-profit management,
- To understand the effect of macro and micro elements affecting the operation and management in public sector,
- To deal with information in order to make decisions and implement changes in organisations,
- To undestand the concepts of efficiency, effectiveness and quality in public sector organisations.
- To marry theory and practice of management and change management implementation in public sector.