Browse Hierarchy BUS328: Managing Public Services

This module aims to provide students with a rich understanding of key aspects of management in the public sector and management of public services, whether those services are delivered directly by public bodies or by private companies or non-profit organisations working under contract to public authorities. Political, financial, local, national and international contexts for public management are examined. Students will develop an understanding of some key choices, challenges, dilemmas and trade-offs faced by public managers in making policy, steering and regulating and commissioning public services. Students will learn about some of the most important practices and relationships in the field, including debates for reform to address twenty first century challenges. It will as valuable to students who will work in the very many private firms which take government contracts as it will be to students who will work in the public sector, and it will also be very useful for students who make spend some of their career working in regulatory bodies.