Insegnamento a.a. 2024-2025

This is a 6-credit hours course which will be completed in about 12 weeks. Students are expected to work about 9 hours per week including weekly lectures (3 hours), readings, assignments, and other on-line activities instructors will propose. The course is divided in  two parts:

Part 1: Public policy and public management 

• Why do governemnts exist and why  study them?
• How government typical structure looks like  
• The role of bureaucracies
• Types of bureaucrats and ways to motivate them
• Decision making and perfomance evaluation in public agencies

Part 2: Nonprofit management 

• The role of the third sector in the economy
• Types of nonprofit organizations: an overview
• Governance and management of nonprofit organizations
• How to secure contributed income: key successful factors in fundraising

• Recognize the distinctive features and roles of governemnts and nonprofit organizations
• Identify the main challenges that public and nonprofit managers have to face in their work
• Describe  how nonpro!t can secure contributed income

• Analyze a policy issue
• Propose solutions to a policy issue
• Perform basic managerial tasks coherent to the daily work of a public/nonprofit executive

• Lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
• Individual works / Assignments
• Collaborative Works / Assignments

Beside class meetings or online lectures this course include other activities:

• Guest speakers’ talks complement acquired knowledge with practical experiences
• Case studies and incidents will be proposed to reflect on complex policy issues and to find appropriate paths of solution
• Individual assignments will be in the form of short reflection papers on class and reading material
• Group assignments will be in the form of practical problem solving exercise

Individual learning journal  (50%): to be delivered before the end of the course.

Group project report (50%)

to be delivered before the end of the course. You will present a pitch/teaser of the project on the first exam session after the end of the course.

Final written exam on two books for non attending students (100%)

Reading list accessible to attending students

• De Vries M.S. (2016) Understanding Public Administration, London: Bloomsbury  https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/understanding-public-administration-9781137575463/ (ALL)

• Anheier, H.K. (2014). Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management, Policy (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315851044 (ALL)

This is a 6-credit hours course which will be completed in about 12 weeks. Students are expected to work about 9 hours per week including weekly lectures (3 hours), readings, assignments, and other on-line activities instructors will propose. The course is divided in  two parts:

Part 1: Public policy and public management 

• Why do governemnts exist and why  study them?
• How government typical structure looks like  
• The role of bureaucracies
• Types of bureaucrats and ways to motivate them
• Decision making and perfomance evaluation in public agencies

Part 2: Nonprofit management 

• The role of the third sector in the economy
• Types of nonprofit organizations: an overview
• Governance and management of nonprofit organizations
• How to secure contributed income: key successful factors in fundraising

• Recognize the distinctive features and roles of governemnts and nonprofit organizations
• Identify the main challenges that public and nonprofit managers have to face in their work
• Describe  how nonpro!t can secure contributed income

• Analyze a policy issue
• Propose solutions to a policy issue
• Perform basic managerial tasks coherent to the daily work of a public/nonprofit executive

• Lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
• Individual works / Assignments
• Collaborative Works / Assignments

Beside class meetings or online lectures this course include other activities:

• Guest speakers’ talks complement acquired knowledge with practical experiences
• Case studies and incidents will be proposed to reflect on complex policy issues and to find appropriate paths of solution
• Individual assignments will be in the form of short reflection papers on class and reading material
• Group assignments will be in the form of practical problem solving exercise

Individual learning journal  (50%): to be delivered before the end of the course.

Group project report (50%): to be delivered before the end of the course. You will present a pitch/teaser of the project on the first exam session after the end of the course.

Final written exam on two books for non attending students (100%)

Reading list accessible to attending students

• De Vries M.S. (2016) Understanding Public Administration, London: Bloomsbury  https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/understanding-public-administration-9781137575463/ (ALL)

• Anheier, H.K. (2014). Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management, Policy (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315851044 (ALL)

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