Organization and Public Management

Basic knowledge in management

Expository method, using theoretical presentations of the syllabus.
The previous method is complemented with the use of the Inquiry-based learning or research-based learning method, as students are guided to the elaboration of research work and analysis of scientific articles.

This course has the following specific objectives:

• Identify: the foundations for public intervention; the evolution of conceptions about the role of the State in the economy; the typology of intervention modalities; the essential elements of administrative activity.
• Distinguish and characterize the different models of public management.
• Recognize the distinctive nature of public organizations and public management;
• Characterize the essential elements of the basic management functions applied to the public sector environment and the specificities of the Portuguese regulatory framework.
• Describe the governance models in Portuguese public administration, in the domains of administrative reform.

In short, given the above objectives, the skills to be acquired by students are:

• ability to recognize the singularities of the public organization and public management, in general and for the Portuguese case in particular;
• ability to investigate a particular topic in the concrete context of Portuguese public management.

Theme 1 | Status: role and functions

1.1 | State functions and intervention modalities;

1.2 | Public administrative activity.

Theme 2 | The Distinctive Nature of Public Organizations and Public Management

2.1 | Unique characteristics of public entities and their management;

2.2 | The challenges facing public organizations;

2.3 | The role of public officials.

Theme 3 | Public Management

3.1 | Concept, characteristics and restrictions;

3.2 | The different public management models:

           A. Classic Paradigm of Public Administration;

           B. New Public Management;

           C. Governance.

3.3 | Administrative Reform in Portugal and Public Management models.

Theme 4 | Planning and Evaluation in a Public Context

4.1 | The essential elements of basic management functions;

4.2 | Planning: the importance of strategy in decision making and public policies;

4.3 | Performance evaluation and management indicators in the public sector.

Theme 5 | Research methodology

5.1 | Basic foundations of scientific methodology: the deductive method and the inductive method, depending on the nature of the investigation.

5.2 | Types of scientific research work

5.3 | Stages of the research process in academic and scientific works

5.4 | Structure of a research work

5.5. | Data collection instruments

5.6. | Data analysis techniques

5.7 | Data interpretation

5.8 | Rules/standards for bibliographic references and citations in APA

5.9 | The Mendeley as a referencing tool

NAO

Fundamental Bibliography

Azevedo, A. (2008). Administração Pública Modernização Administrativa – Gestão e Melhoria dos Processos Administrativos CAF e SIADAP. Porto: Vida Económica.

Bilhim, J. (2000). Gerir a Administração Pública Como Uma Empresa. In Reforma do Estado e Administração Pública Gestionária (pp. 75–84). Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.

Bilhim, J. 2017. Nova governança pública. Sociologia, problemas e práticas, n.º 84, pp. 9-25.

Bilhim, J. (2021) As Reformas da Admnistração Pública em Portugal. Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania, pp 1-20.  v. 26. N. 84.

Carvalho, T. (2009). Nova Gestão Pública e Reformas da Saúde – O Profissionalismo numa Encruzilhada. Edições Sílabo.

Crantschaninov, T. (2019). Introdução à gestão pública. São Paulo: Senac.

Dias, R. (2017). Gestão pública: Aspectos atuais e perspectivas para atualização. São Paulo, Atlas.

Fonseca, F., & Carapeto, C. (2009). Governação, inovação e tecnologias: O estado rede e a administração pública do futuro. Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.

Fonseca, M., & Carapeto, C. (2014). Administração pública: modernização, qualidade e inovação, 3ª Edição. Lisboa: Editora Sílabo.

Marconi, M., & Lakatos, E. (2003). Fundamentos de Metodologia Científica. Editora Atlas S.A.

Marques, M. (2007). Aplicação dos Princípios da Governança Corporativa ao Setor Público. Revista Auditoria e Contabilidade, 1–12.

Rocha, J. (2007). Gestão Pública e Modernização Administrativa. Instituto Nacional de Administração.

Rodrigues, C. (2011). Governação de Organizações: a Emergência de Modelos Diferenciados. Edições Pedago Lda.

Rodrigues, M., & Adão e Silva, P. (2012). Políticas Públicas em Portugal. INCM.

Santos, C. (2017). Introdução à Gestão Pública, 2ª Edição. São Paulo: Editora Saraiva.

Silvestre, H. C. (2010). Gestão pública: modelos de prestação no serviço público. Lisboa: Escolar Editora.

Weber, M. (1971). Os Fundamentos da Organização Burocrática: Uma Construção do Tipo Ideal. In Edmundo Campos (Ed.), Sociologia da Burocracia (pp. 15–28). ZAHAR Editores.

Complementary Bibliography

Corte-Real, I. (2008). Public management reform in Portugal: successes and failures. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 21(2), 205.

Denhardt, J., & Denhardt, R. (2007). The new public service: Serving, not steering. ME Sharpe.

Hood, C. (1991). A Public Management for all Seasons ? Public Administration, 69(1), 3–19.

Hood, C. (1995). The “New Public Management” In the 1980s: Variations on a Theme. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 20(2–3), 93–109.

Madureira, C., & Ferraz, D. (2014). The need of a XXI century governance paradigm for public administration: the specific case of Portugal. Public Policy and Administration, 31, p. 35-48.

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Rhodes, R. (1996). The New Governance: Governing without Government. Political Studies, 44(4), 652–667.

Rhodes, R. (1997). Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity and Accountability. Open University Press.

Rhodes, R. (2007). Understanding Governance: Ten Years On. Organization Studies, 28(8), 1243–1264.