Public Management and Governance

This course empowers students to explore questions and issues arising in Aotearoa New Zealand and further afield as managers and governors of public service organisations go about their business in the dynamic and fast-paced contemporary environment. The course examines how public services are governed and managed locally, nationally and internationally, bringing in such challenges as achieving consensus among publics with differing politics and competing interests, making the most of scarce resources, fulfilling social, cultural, economic, environmental and political responsibilities and persuading people to fund services through higher taxation.