Description

M.A. in Complex Administrations and Organizations Science – Curriculum Public Management

The Master in “Public Management” adopts an interdisciplinary approach that allows students to learn how Dynamic Performance Management can support collaborative governance, to manage ‘wicked’ social issues, so to pursue community resilience and sustainable outcomes.

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Duration

2 years

Starting Date

September

Tuition Fee

€ 156-2,400

Location

Palermo, Italy

Overview

“Wicked” social problems cannot be clustered within the boundaries of a single organization, or referred to specific administrative levels or ministerial areas. They are characterized by dynamic complexity, involving multi-level, multi-actor and multi-sectorial challenges. Such policy areas underlie a multitude of dynamic complex problems that today’s societies are expected to deal with, to pursue resilience and to improve quality of life. Failing to consider the dynamic complexity of such problems, involving (public, non-profit and private) policymakers increases the risk of policy resistance and of counterintuitive, unpredictable the behavior of the systems that a public agency may try to affect through its own individual actions. Such problems are usually ingrained in major social issues of modern life, and their interpretation is not univocal because it depends on the adopted value perspectives.

Consequently, simply gathering more information can be insufficient to understand and resolve them. Designing public policies to deal with ‘wicked’ issues usually implies that there is not a true or false solution to them. Both the different interests and mindsets of policymakers, service users, and people belonging to a local community require that policies to deal with such problems should be designed and implemented based on a strategic learning process focused on conflict resolution as well as dialogue among involved stakeholders. To deal with these issues and to have an impact on community outcomes in a sustainable way, governmental reforms should make consistent three main sub-systems with each other, i.e., 1) institutional/legislative systems and administrative rules, 2) organization structures/management systems at the agency level, and 3) cultural systems so that they may sustain the desired governance mode.