Public administration management

Menedžment v javni upravi

Course credits:

6.00 ECTS / 60 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 30 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

prof. dr. Irena Bačlija Brajnik

Type:

Required

Language:

Slovenian

Semester:

First semester

Study degree

2. level

Course execution:

• Postgraduate Programme of Political Science – Comparative Public Policies and Administration

Prerequisits:

Students are allowed to participate in the course provided that they have completed the enrolment procedure.

Objectives and competences

OBJECTIVES: Main objectives are to give students an understanding of public administration management and its importance for the society; and to train student for optimizing functions of public administration. COMPETENCES: Analyses of public administration functioning, capable of practical optimisation of public administration organisations, skills to develop tolls for measuring effectiveness and efficiency in public sector, critical thinking on public administration aims and functions, advanced research skills for analysing optimal functioning of public administration.

Content (Syllabus outline)

Course content is linked to contemporary functioning (and optimization) of public sector; content includes: public administration, effective and efficient public administration (indicators), institutional optimisation of public administration, introduction to public administration management, overview of management theory development (with emphases on public administration management), contemporary public administration management theories, contemporary methods of public administration optimisation, democratic public administration, differences between public and private sector and differences between public and private sector management.

Intended learning outcomes:

knowledge of public administration management theories comprehension of differences between public and private sector application of existing tools for public administration optimization and tolls for measuring effectiveness and efficiency in public administration Synthesis in form of designing optimisation of organisation functioning (case study), based on theoretical background Evaluation of public administration importance for contemporary society

Learning and teaching methods:

Lectures, seminars, public speaking.

Assessment

60 % project work 40 % oral defence of project work with emphases on synthesising theoretical knowledge

Obligatory literature

Additional literature