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Course: 2024/2025

Public Management II

(13255)

Dual Bachelor in Law and Political Science (2008 study Plan) (Plan: 175 - Estudio: 232)

Coordinating teacher: VIÑAS CHIAPPINI, VERONICA ESTHER

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Electives

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 6º

Semester: 1º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

Public Management I

Objectives

After taking this course the student will be able: 1. To know strategic public management theory and practice in depth 2. To develop skills to apply strategic instruments to public policies and programs management

Description of contents: programme

1. Strategic public management: principles and essential concepts. Public policies and strategies. Value creation in public organizations. 2. Approaches and schools on strategic public management 3. Design of strategic plans. Prospective analysis and prioritization. Negotiation skills for strategic planning. Defining missions, strategies and objectives in connection to public policy. Strategy maps in public policies and managing programmes. 4. Strategic planning: implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Defining specific objectives, performance measures and tasks. Partnerships and resource. Budget and calendar. Operational plans and projects. Management controls and evaluation systems.

Learning activities and methodology

- Lectures and case studies in class - Simulation excercices on public strategic management (group) - Book review on public strategic management - Presentations, where appropriate, by student teams - Report on case study about public strategic management

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 60
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

- Compulsory final exam: 60%; in which a 40% must be obtained to calculate the weighted average and pass the course.

- Continuous assessment activities: 40%

The exam for the extraordinary assessment will be similar as the exam for the ordinary assessment. In this case, as indicated in the University regulations, the teacher will give the student the highest mark between: (1) weighted average between the exam and the continuous assessment, and (2) 100% of the exam mark.

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

ARELLANO, D.. Gestión estratégica para el sector público. Del pensamiento estratégico al cambio organizacional. México, Fondo de Cultura Económica. 2004
MOORE, M.H.. Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government. Harvard University Press. 1997

Additional Bibliography

BRYSON, J. Strategic Planning for public and non profit organizations. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. 1995
JOYCE, P.. Strategic Management for the public services. Buckingham, Open University Press. 1999

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.