Current Problems in Public Management
40 credit hours
Postgraduate |
Students will learn about:
- Transformations of the state-civil society relationship in the 1990s.
- Relations between politics, administration and management.
- Crisis of the model of
Traditional management and the bureaucratic paradigm.
- Governance and new
Management models.
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Sustainability of processes.
- Articulation between
Public, social and state.
- New scenarios and modalities of
Relationship.
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Representation and social participation.
- Innovation and
Capacities of public organizations. |
Organizations in the Process of Public Policy
40 credit hours
Postgraduate |
- Public policy in the state-society-economy, according to
different conceptions and theoretical approaches.
- The determination of policies
as a theoretical object and the "place" of the organizations in their analysis.
- Public policy and state policy in the current conjuncture.
- The structural
economic, political, legal and cultural framework; restrictions and degrees of freedom to
Public organizations and for the feasibility of policies.
- The
process of public policy: the configuration of the public agenda, the
development, formulation, adoption, implementation, monitoring and
policy evaluation.
- Models for the analysis of institutional actors
In the different analytical phases of the process. |
Analysis of Organizations
40 credit hours
Postgraduate |
- Different theoretical perspectives on organizations and their relationships with
the context.
- Complexity, change and uncertainty.
- Strategies and objectives.
- The
strategic process as a decision-making process.
- The decision-making process in
organizations: power and politics.
- The political theories of the organization:
Multiplicity of perspectives.
- The new institutional economy and the costs of
transaction.
- The social structure of organizations such as differentiation and
integration.
- Design and control of organizational structures.
- The
Physical structure of the organizations: a behavioral and symbolic approach around the formation of identity.
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Bureaucracies.
- Dynamic models.
- Culture
Organization.
- The symbolic-interpretative approach of the organizational culture.
- Cultural fragmentation, stress and collapse of meaning.
- Technology in the
Organizations: definitions and types.
- The social construction of technologies
- The problem of organizational learning. |
Strategic Management of Public Organizations
50 credit hours
Postgraduate |
- Strategic analysis.
- The definition of weaknesses, strengths, threats and
opportunities.
- The formulation of strategies, objectives, goals and activities.
- The operational management of services with a strategic vision:
Demand, flow analysis and capacity design.
- Process management
change.
- Leadership of work teams.
- Negotiation and management. |
Budgeting and Economic-Financial Management of
Organizations
40 credit hours
Postgraduate |
- Common techniques of financial management and analysis of
organizations.
- Management of financial resources.
- Decisions of
Investment and financing strategies.
- Budgetary system.
- Models of
financial planning.
- The budget process and its results.
- Techniques
Of budgeting.
- Budget management and execution.
- Control of expenditure. |
Design and Management Technologies of Public Organizations
50 credit hours
Postgraduate |
- Public organizations, dimensions and context.
- Flexible organizations:
Characteristics and design parameters.
- Technologies of design, improvement
and change: quality systems, process re-engineering, techniques
- Detection of levels of satisfaction of citizens and development of
better practices.
- Management control: definition of standards, construction
of indicators, integral scorecard.
- Challenges from the perspective of organizations.
- New technologies of
information and communication and public management: transformations in
relations with citizens, organizational design,
agents and management styles.
- The management of communications and
information.
- Internal and external communications.
- Technologies of Information for management control, permanent improvement,
decision making, the link with the citizen.
- Thread Tools
Information technology. |
Strategic management of human resources
40 credit hours
Postgraduate |
- Value of human resources in the management of organizations'
Public policies.
- Multiple interests in human resources decisions.
- Estimation of management conditions.
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Establishment of objectives and
strategies.
- Provision of personnel.
- Personal development.
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Compensations and
Benefits.
- Labor relations, relationships with employees and work environment. |
Internship
70 credit hours
Postgraduate |
The internship is an experience of professional practice consisting of the insertion of the student in a public institutional space - state or civil society - for the satisfaction of a specific demand
inexorably linked to one of the objectives of the Master Program. |
Integrative Workshop
30 credit hours
Postgraduate |
This workshop is formed from the experiences of the student in management or in their internship. The skills they obtained are accompanied by theoretical skills taught by a professor. There are different topics for each workshop, according tot he needs of the student/tutor. |
