Programme Info

Public management has become a normative scientific discipline, which more than ever requires the search for dynamic efficiency within creative entrepreneurship of public institutions. This course will help participants to understand issues related to policies, planning, finance, coordination and decision making in public sector management. 

Target Audience

Heads of public sector organizations, managers, public service executives and all those engaged in public sector management. 

Programme

• Planning and decision making in public management
• Politics and the public sector
• Political differences
• The role of the state
• A centralized or decentralized State?
• Politics and management: values
• Public spending
• The macro-economic policy context
• Fiscal policy and the economic cycles
• What is the money spent on?
• Where does the money come from?
• Public spending in the devoted administrations
• Why is the level of public spending important?
• The fiscal crisis of 2008 and its aftermath
• Social policies and management
• Choice of policy instrument
• Trends in policy and management
• Income maintenance
• Community care
• Education
• Criminal justice
• Health policy
• Housing