Centre for Financial & Management Studies (CeFiMS) - University of London

Postgraduate Diploma in Public Management

Structure and Syllabus

 Postgraduate Diploma in Public Management

Four compulsory courses:

Public policy and management: perspectives and issues [C300]

Human resource management and development [C302]

Management information and information systems [C303]

Managing organisational change [C306]

Detailed Syllabus

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Public policy and management: perspectives and issues [C300]
You will be introduced to the main principles and techniques of public policy and management. The course examines the scope and functions of government in a critical and comparative way, ideal types of management and policy transfer, and introduces policy evaluation.

Unit 1: The State, Public Policy and Management
Unit 2: Understanding the State
Unit 3: Ideal Types
Unit 4: Policy Analysis and Evaluation
Unit 5: Policy and Management Dilemmas I
Unit 6: Policy and Management Dilemmas 2
Unit 7: Policy Transfer
Unit 8: The Future of the State?

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Human resource management and development [C302]
You will study the management of people in public organisations as well as models of human resource management and development. Other topics studies include job analysis, career management, recruitment and selection, performance management and appraisal, training and development and rewards management.

Unit 1: Human Resource Management: Introduction
Unit 2: Resourcing
Unit 3: Performance
Unit: 4 Development
Unit 5: Employee Relations
Unit 6: Pay
Unit 7: Cross-Functional Issues
Unit 8: Human Resource Strategy and Management

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Management information and information systems [C303]
You will explore the potential of information systems in the public sector. This will be undertaken through a critical examination of the role of information in public sector organisations, of different models of information planning and management, and of the appropriateness of different information systems and technologies.

Unit 1: An Introduction to Information Systems in Public Sector Organisations
Unit 2: Information in Organisations
Unit 3: Information and Communication Technologies in the Knowledge Era
Unit 4: People, Management, Organisations, Environments and Information Systems
Unit 5: Types of Information Systems
Unit 6: Managing information systems and data
Unit 7 Information Systems Development
Unit 8: E-government Strategy

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Managing organisational change [C306]
This course investigates the environment of public organisations and relates the management of organisational change to sociological and socio-psychological analysis of organisational behaviour and organisational culture.

Unit 1: Organisations and Environments
Unit 2: Organisational Change
Unit 3: Organisational Structure and Change
Unit 4: Organisational Culture and Change
Unit 5: Power, Politics and Change
Unit 6: Leadership and Organisational Change
Unit 7: Learning and Organisational Change
Unit 8: Strategies for Change

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