The Challenge Of Effective Public

Organization And Management

Organization & Management)
COVID19 PANDEMIC
GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSES

Government Officials Administrators

Citizens Institutes of Health

Businesses closed & Activities halted = Economic dislocation

NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS’
RESPONSES
Manufacturing firms – production of medical supplies
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS’
RESPONSES
  Pharmaceutical and Medical Companies – development
of vaccines tests and defenses
CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ECONOMY

 Government entities

 Non-profit entities

 Private business entities

THE WEB OF POLITICS
ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND
ORGANIZATIONS
 Performance of public organizations

 Governmental context

 Combination of managerial skill with effective

knowledge of the public sector context
GENERAL AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

 Literature and research on public organizations

 Scholars developed knowledge in the fields of

organizational behavior – industrial and social
psychology
organization theory – individual and group
behaviors
GENERIC TRADITION

Government

Non-profit similar challenges

& patterns
Private
ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

  Economists – theories of public bureaucracy and

absence of economic markets

  Political scientists – political role of public organizations

and relationships

Both paid little attention to internal management.

ISSUES IN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

 Master of Public Administration (MPA)

vs
Master of Business Administration (MBA)

 Public management research

INEFFECTIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT?

Balance of effective operation and democratic control

Disincentives and Constraints

EFFECTIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

Government sectors
vs
Private sectors

  Generic management procedures

  External political pressures
  Administrative constraints
ORGANIZATIONS: A DEFINITION AND A
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
SUMMARY

  Government organizations perform crucial functions.

  Learning and applying the literature on organization theory,

behavior and general management improve public
management and performance.

  The organizational framework presented the most

important aspects of an organization and how to improve it.
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