Faculty of Economic Sciences

Course: Public management

ECTS:

5

Level:

all

Semester:

summer

Lectures: 15 hours, seminars:15 hours

Lecturer(s): prof. dr hab. Janina Sawicka, Mirosława Braja MSc.

Description:

Public management as a detailed area of scientific research arose in 1980s of 20^th century in USA. It joins management science, economics and also political sciences into one subdiscipline.

There are some different approaches to this quite new area of management science. The term ‘public management’ can be understood as a management in public sector (objective approach), as well as the public affairs’ management (subjective approach).

To accomplish students with this area of management science, the program of lectures will contain following problems:

1. The term ‘organisation’ and different kinds of organisations.
2. The term ‘public management’ – different approaches and the area of research in this subdiscipline
3. Subjects of the public management
4. Surroundings of public organisations
5. Market imperfection and governing insufficiency
6. Public choice and the theory of public choice
7. The idea of New Public Management
8. The EFQM Excellence Model in public sector
9. Common Assessment Framework
10. Public sector in different European countries

Literature:

1.      Loffler E., Bovaird T., Public Management and Governance, Routledge, 2009

2.      Lynn L. E., Public Management As Art, Science, and Profession (Public Administration and Public Policy), Chatham House Publisher, 1996

3.      Public Management: Critical Perspectives (Critical Perspectives on Business & Management), Routledge, 2001

4.      Stiglitz J. E., Economics of the Public Sector, WW Norton & co., 2000