2012/2013  BA-HA_HU8P  Understanding New Public Management (intensive)

English Title

Understanding New Public Management (intensive)

Course information
Language	English
Exam ECTS	7.5 ECTS
Type	Elective
Level	Bachelor
Duration	Summer
Course period	Intensive course:3 weeks of classes, 3 weeks of exam. NOTE: Course schedule at the moment ONLY available on www.cbs.dk/summer
Time Table	Please see course schedule at e-Campus
Study board	Study Board for BSc in Economics and Business Administration
Course coordinator
Faculty - Linne Marie Lauesen, CBS Patricia Plackett - Department of Operations Management
Main Category of the Course
Political leadership, public management and international politics
Last updated on 23-04-2012

Learning objectives

In order to acquire the mark 12 within the course New Public Management the student must demonstrate: Knowledge about and understanding of relevant terms, concepts, processes and perspectives and models within the field of New Public Management. An ability to identify and solve New Public Management problems by applying relevant terms, concepts, models, processes and perspectives from the discipline of New Public Management. An ability to discuss and evaluate the strength and weakness of the applied terms, concepts, models, processes and perspectives of New Public Management.

Examination

Understanding New Public Management

Project/Home Assignment, 10 A4 pages: Type of test Home Assignment Marking scale 7-step scale Second examiner No second examiner Exam period Summer Term Aids Please, see the detailed regulations below Duration Please, see the detailed regulations below Examination based on evaluation of a written project of 10 A4 pages (written individually).

Course content

Purpose The course introduces the student to a basic understanding and tools used within the ideas of New Public Management in the public sector from a policy-making perspective.    Content How modern policy-making created New Public Management: What happened and why? Evidence-based policy-making and the entrance of research in politics. The knowledgeable consumer and elector. Knowledge-producers and educators. Community dissonance and change.   Understanding New Public Management: How to use Public Sector Performance Information. Change and Continuity in the 20th Century Performance. Interactive-Dialogue Approach to Performance Information Use. Performance Information and Performance Steering. Performance Measurement beyond Instrumental Use. Comparing Performance across Public Sectors. Performance Management Systems. Performance Information Utilization in Political Decision Making and Policy Making. Rational, Political and Cultural Uses of Performance Monitors. Reporting Public Performance Information. Publishing Performance Information.       The course’s development of personal competences: Personal competences developed in this course is an understanding of public performance  management as a driver in New Public Management by performance information, monitoring in management systems, decision- and policy-making as well as reporting and publishing of the performance information.

Teaching methods

Presentations from educators and active discussions, involvement of teachers' research, student presentations and case studies from public institutions and businesses. Comparison and contrast between theory and empirical studies from home and abroad, and student presentations. The lectures will introduce the student to both the theoretical perspective and empirical case studies with papers and together with the students discuss and reflect on ethical, social and political dilemmas and opportunities within the New Public Management, partly on the theory's own terms and partly in relation to its practical application in the empirical cases. Student Presentation of theory or empirical cases compared with theory. Training and preparation of a synopsis for oral exams.

Expected literature

Wouter Van Dooren and Steven Van de Walle “Performance Information in the Public Sector. How it is Used.” Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 256 pages (reading all). Karen Bogenschneider and Thomas J. Corbett “Evidence-based Policymaking. Insights from Policy-Minded Researchers and Research-Minded Policymakers”. Routledge, 2010, 368 pages (reading 1-128, 149-174, 193-309 = 269 pages)