Public Management Models

Basic knowledge in management

Expository method, using theoretical presentations of the syllabus, combined with the application of practical cases prepared in accordance with the objectives of the course.

The main objective of this course is to understand, apprehend and apply, on the part of the student body, the basic concepts of Public Management and its vicissitudes, as opposed to the management of private entities.

In this perspective, this curricular unit has the following specific objectives:

• Provide solid training in public management;

• Identify the different models of public management and their distinctive characteristics;

• Provide students with the capacity for critical appraisal with regard to the issues that exist today about the lines of reform underway in the public sector;

• Understanding the functioning and evolution of public management, particularly in the Portuguese context;

• Understand the specific aspects of public management and its various topics and subtopics;

• Know the dynamics of public organizations and enable students with theoretical and practical skills to analyze, evaluate and understand the current problems facing public management.

In terms of skills and knowledge acquired, at the end of the semester students should be able to:

• Apply practical knowledge about the different models of public management;

• Analyze the bridge between a public sector based on bureaucracy and a new management appropriate to the 21st century that presupposes the adoption of a management posture adapted to the specificity of public services, concerned with an efficient and effective response to the needs of society and public policies;

• Diagnose problems that require the intervention of activities by public organizations, in particular the analysis of public management models that best serve the activity of the public sector.

• Identify the characteristics of the different public management paradigms;

• Framing the main models and trends of Portuguese administrative reform;

• Expose the characteristic aspects of public management;

• Unveil the different specific aspects of public management addressed within the scope of this curricular unit;

• Characterize administrative modernization initiatives carried out in Portugal in recent decades.

I – Public organizations

The unique characteristics of public organizations;

The challenges facing public organizations.

II – Public management and private management

Concept, characteristics and restrictions;

Public management and private management: Similarities and disparities.

III – The different public management models:

Classical Public Administration Paradigm;

New Public Management;

Governance;

Other models.

IV – The administrative and management organization of the Portuguese public sector

The Portuguese public sector: Scope and structure;

Different types of public organizations;

The role of public managers.

V – Administrative Reform in Portugal

Administrative reform processes: concept and scope;

Administrative reform in Portugal:

in the context of the Estado Novo;

in the early years of democratic rule;

in the 80s and 90s;

in the 21st century.

Administrative Reform in Portugal and Public Management models.

VI – Specific Topics in Public Management

Leadership in the public sector context;

Quality management;

Strategy, planning and evaluation in a public context;

Monitoring the implementation and assessing the impact of public programs;

Partnerships and public network management;

Change, innovation and technology management;

Lean Management and continuous improvement;

Knowledge Management in public organizations.

VII – Ethics in public management

Values ​​and ethics;

The instruments of ethics;

Transparency and accountability.

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Fundamental Bibliography

Araújo, J. F. F. E., Silvestre, H. C. (2013). Coletânea em Administração Pública. Lisboa: Escolar Editora.

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

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

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

Dias, Reinaldo (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.

Pollitt, C., Bouckaert, G. (2017). Public management reform: A comparative analysis-into the age of austerity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rocha, J. (2010). Gestão da Qualidade. Aplicação aos Serviços Públicos, 2ª Edição. Lisboa, Escolar Editora.

Santos, Clezio Saldanha dos (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.

Silvério, J., Dias, D, & Cobra, J. (2018). Sistemas de Gestão da Qualidade na Administração Pública. Diário de Bordo. 

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

Evans, J.R. & Lindsay, W.M. (2016). Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence, 10.ª edição. Boston: Cengage Learning.

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.

OECD. Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (2017). Working with Change Systems approaches to public sector challenges. [Paris]: OECD.