Research and Theory in Public and Nonprofit Management

Catalog description

This course provides a broad exploration of public and nonprofit management issues to improve students' abilities to analyze the given institutional matrix of modern public management. The informed and skillful practices of public and nonprofit management will improve public values and service delivery in effective and efficient ways. This course is designed to understand the theories, perspectives, and functions of management in the public managersand nonprofit sectors; and to assess management practices, possibilities, and challenges encountered with emerging issues. The topics include traditional approaches of management, new public management, history of management, general management theory, structural issues, institutionalized values of management, managerial functions, strategic management, performance management, accountability and leadership, organizational design and institutional governance, global perspectives of management, challenges for public governance, and frontier of management Students will gain better perspectives of managing the public and nonprofit sectors and build skills to analyze and evaluate management issues and practices.