Public Administration

The Modules in Public Administration, offered by Collegium Civitas, aim at teaching 'high potentials' in politics, administration and business. They give their prospective students up-to-date, advanced knowledge for responsible and successful management of organizations, and for considered and innovative policy analysis and development. The modules are taught by an international team of specialists, with professors from Collegium Civitas, the School for Public Administration of Erasmus University in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), and several other universities like George Mason School of Public Policy in Arlington, VA (USA), together with outstanding practitioners from Poland and the European Union at large.
Part of the program consists of in-depth studies of particular administrative organizations, in the form of intensive visits and special trainings.
The program is run in locations where undisturbed teaching and learning can take place, during eight weekends per semester. One of the modules, the research module, is organized in close co-operation with the Public Policy and Administration Research Centre at Collegium Civitas. 
The modules are developed in their own right, and can be taken independent of each other. However, students will be advised to take Module One first. Students who will complete from one to three modules will receive a relevant Postgraduate Diploma.

Target group:
High potentials in a decisive phase of their career in politics, administration or business, who have the ambition and the drive to develop their skills and practical understanding of the management and supervising of organizations in the public or the private-public sectors. Independent minds who want to invest in their future.


MODULES

Outline of Module One:
Modern Public Administration

- Effective management: the logic of modern Public Administration 
  The case-study approach: theory-guided reflections on practices
  Techniques in Public Administration: wys to achieve success
- Getting things done: the logic(s) of organizations and of leaders
- Being effective: how to organize yourself in organizations
- Trends in European public administration
- Challenges that the Polish bureaucracy faces
- Bureaucracy between politics and civil society
- Bureaucracy, law and economics
- Learning organizations, multi-level government and the network society

Outline of Module Two:
Policy and Finance

New Public Management, Quality Control, and Public Innovation in comparative European perspective. Lobbing, Comparative cases will include: Water Management in Europe, Social Security and the Future of the European Union, the Management of Health Care in Europe.

Outline of Module Three:
Human Resource Management

The basic ohilosophy of MPA program is that it is the people in the administration that do the job, and that management is essentially facilitation. This module will present a wide array of comparative case studies (police forces, the HRM of the administrative elite, effective implementation of innovation, the introduction of European regulations) from a great variety of European countries.