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Instructors: Dr. Fabian Hattke; Janne Kalucza
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Public Management
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 50
Comments/contents:
This course covers selected topics of public management on a basic and advanced level. It is dominated by, but not restricted to, a behavioral approach to public administration. This requires from all participants, including the lecturer, openness to adjunct disciplines such as psychology, sociology, political science and economics. The list of topics below is non-exhaustive.Strategic management and performance management in the public sector.
- Public leadership within and between politics and administration.
- Legitimacy and accountability of public organizations.
- Bureaucratic rules, red tape, and administrative burden.
- Public service motivation and human resource management.
- Network governance and cross-sector partnerships.
Learning objectives:
Students …
- can delineate the academic field of public management and have in-depth knowledge on the state-of-the-art of research and practice;
- know how to detect, tailor and frame academic and practical problems of public management and can solve them by appropriate means in terms of theories, concepts and methods;
- improve their proficiency in academic English (spoken and written).
Didactic concept:
This is a digital course with asynchronous lectures. Each session provides research paper, which sheds light on a more specific aspect or problem of the topic. This is a required reading for the course. The course starts and ends with a synchronous online meeting on zoom.
Literature:
The introductory slides contain references to recent literature in public management. This literature is not mandatory but can help students in enhancing their background knowledge. The research papers for each week will be announced in the course syllabus at the beginning of the semester.
Additional examination information:
As proof of course participation, students must receive a passing grade on a a paper, which discusses one of the course's topic.
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