Management and Public Administration
Objectives
At the end of this course the student will have acquired knowledge, skills and competences that allow:
- Understanding the operation and interdependence of the various areas of an administration, as well as their current and strategic management decisions in a dynamic perspective stimulated from the interaction with stakeholders;
- Being able to, alone and in a team, collect and identify and analyze benefits and problems in the administration and formulate suggestions for management, using diagrams, accounting instruments, financial calculus and criteria of investment decisions;
- Knowing the fundamentals, key variables influencing the administration, and sources of information, namely those related with human resource management, accounting documents and financial ratios, strategic and operational marketing, financial calculus and evaluation of investment projects.
-Understand how managers create public value by delivering services effectively and efficiently.
General characterization
Code
13104
Credits
3.0
Responsible teacher
Joaquim Amaro Graça Pires Faia e Pina Catalão Lopes
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 42
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
No requisits.
Bibliography
Main
Lisboa, J. et al., 2013, Introdução à Gestão de Organizações, Vida Económica
Robbins,S. e Coulter, M., 2012, Management, Pearson
Freire, A., 1995, Estratégia, Verbo
Lindon, D., Lendrevie, J., Rodrigues, J. e Dionísio, P., 2000, Mercator, D. Quixote
Rainey, Hal G., 2009, Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Carapeto, C. e Fonseca, F, 2006, Administração Pública: Modernização, Qualidade e Inovação, Sílabo
Drury, C., 2015, Management and Cost Accounting, Cengage
Nunes, A., Viana, L. e Rodrigues, L, 2019, O Sistema de Normalização Contabilística - Administrações Públicas: Teoria e Prática, Almedina
Bandy, G., 2017, Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector, Routledge
Moore, M., 1995, Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government, Harvard University Press
“The Accenture Public Sector Value Model”, http://www.issa.int/pdf/cracow04/2Annex-Younger.pdf
Teaching method
Theory-practice classes.
Evaluation method
The assessment is, alternatively:
- Continuous, with practical group work applied to a real case, in the form of report, including the topics of human resources & organization, strategy & marketing and project evaluation. This written report weights 50% of final grade; there will be presentation and discussion of it, which weights 10% of final grade. The report and respective discussion constitute Frequency, with minimum score of 9.5 points (out of 20). There will be two individual short-tests, one on the first three topics of the syllabus and another on the remaining topics, each short-test weighing 20% of final grade, with minimum average grade of 9.5 points. Approval requires a minimum final grade of 9.5 points.
- Final exam without consultation on the whole subject, whose classification weights 40% of final grade (the remainder corresponds to the Frequency grade); the minimum grade for approval is 9.5 points (weighted sum of all elements).
Subject matter
1. Introduction: organizations, public administration and the role of the manager.
2. Leadership & Organization and Human Resource Management and perspectives for Public Administration
3. Strategy & Marketing and the perspective of Public Administration
4. Financial Management & Accounting and Public Administration.
5. Financial calculation & evaluation of projects and possibilities of application in Public Administration.
6. Public and nonprofit service delivery and performance management