Course: Public Systems Management

Course Code: MGT608

(Also offered as a Single Module Certification)

This course examines the evolution and process of public systems management and is concerned with development, evaluation, and implementation in complex public systems.

Public Systems Management is primarily an in-depth analysis of a variety of structures, facts, analytical procedures, and techniques that should be used in public systems management. Students will be led to consider government structures and the different privatisation and deregulation methods used to enhance public systems, the planning tools used in determining government subsidies, taxes, purchases, and the use of a comprehensive regulatory framework to enhance environmental and competitive policies within the local economies.

Students will also discuss various concepts and issues that have informed, and continue to inform, public systems over time. It examines principles that inform the New Public System Management, and the transformation of public administration and management to a market-based, customer-oriented paradigm seeking to determine the role and relevance of government and its ideal size.