Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Public Sector Management (17.IM1421)

Native organizations units: Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Chair of Production Systems, Organization and Management

Type of studies	Title

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Proizvodni i uslužni sistemi, organizacija i menadžment
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	4

Educational goal:

Introducing students with the institutions of the public sector that companies face in their business and the acquisition of knowledge in the area of companies' obligations towards the public sector and the benefits of the public sector. The main objective of this course is to complement and integrate knowledge about the public sector management that is needed for engineering managers who occupy positions in different functions in companies and public sector institutions, through active participation in the teaching and interaction for all students.

Educational outcome:

Students who take the course and pass the exam are qualified to review the role and importance of public sector for enterprises and industrial systems business functioning, understand the methods of analysis and decision-making in the public sector and public sector regulation forms and participate in defining the relationship of the companies to the public sector with from the position of engineering managers who are located at different positions in companies.

Course content:

The role and importance of the public sector. Models of public sector organization. Development trends in public sector. The nature of public sector management. Revenues and expenditures of the public sector. Analysis of decision making in the public sector. Relationships between different levels of the public sector. Restructuring models of public sector. Similarities and differences between the company's management and the management of the public sector. Relationships between companies and the public sector.

Teaching methods:

Classes include lectures on the subject with examples of domestic and international practice of public sector organization. In the exercises students are encouraged to work in groups through a formal debate on topics in the field covered by the course curriculum, with the arguments preparation by using the computer (online research).

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Rosen, S.H., Gayer, T.	Public Finance	2007	McGraw-Hill /Irwin, New York	English
Mladen Radišić	Menadžment javnog sektora - elektronska skripta	2018	Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu	Serbian language
Hughes, O. E.	Public management and administration: An introduction	2003	Palgrave, New York	English