DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in Public Administration Sciences
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year

SCIENZA DELL'AMMINISTRAZIONE

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• administrative structures
  
  First of all, Science administration is an advanced course in the knowledge base, presumably learned by the students during three year degree course in "Science and Administration organization "(L/16), on the public administrative organization seen in systemic perspective. In this view, the first module of course - Administrative Structures – is geared to learning of factors/variables infra-systemic (organizational models, procedures and models of simplification of work processes, culture and organizational climate), as well as those of inter-systemic, related to the environment (given and activated), in which the activity takes place by public authorities (networks).
• ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES
  
  The second module "Administrative processes" assumes that the student has acquired the basic knowledge concerning the evolution of the administrative phenomenon until its current "plural" configuration. Powers and responsibilities are analyzed in the process of multi-level governance and multi-actor. In particular, the module provides the tools to understand the process knowledge at the base of public administration (decision-making, implementation, evaluation, communication) focalizing on the the evolution of the different types of administration in the policy making system.

Detailed Course Content

• administrative structures
  

  The module is based on the study of "morphological dimension" that characterizes the phenomena of the public administration. Thus, it focalizes on the variables / strategic forces that contribute to determining the performance: organizational structures (models), procedures (analysis tools and streamlined) , the human factor (the management of human resources), the administrative organizational culture and climate (models and methods of change). The module also provides an analysis of intergovernmental relations and networks in the new perspective of the state of the network and network governance and multi-level governance.

• ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES
  

  The program is the study of "physiological dimension" that characterizes the phenomena of the public administration, with particular reference to the main and separate processes that help to determine the nature and role in the perspective of "institutional sustainability": the communication process; decision making; the implementation process; the assessment process. It also detailed some new types of activities that redefine the role of public institutions as a strategic development processes: social marketing and local marketing. Finally, it addresses the issue of the reform of public administration and administrative change.

Textbook Information

• administrative structures
  

  R. D’Amico, a cura di, L’analisi della pubblica amministrazione. Teorie, concetti e metodi, Vol. III, La pubblica amministrazione come sistema aperto: la morfologia, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2007.

• ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES
  

  R. D’Amico, a cura di, L’analisi della pubblica amministrazione. Teorie, concetti e metodi, Vol. IV, La pubblica amministrazione come sistema aperto: i processi, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2008.

• LA GESTIONE DELLE RISORSE UMANE
  

  Argentero P. G., Cortese C., Piccardo C. (a cura di), Psicologia delle Risorse Umane, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Ed., 2010

  (chapters 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14)