Admission requirements
Only students from the MPA specialization Public Management can take this course.
Description
Public organizations face increasingly complex challenges that require solutions that cut across professional, organizational and sectoral boundaries. As a strategic response, public organizations collaborate with public, non-profit and private sector organizations as well as with citizens. The main purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theory, concepts, and skills of collaboration and networks in public management. In this course, students will learn the dynamics of external contexts of public organizations and the importance and roles of networks and collaboration in public management. In this course, we will cover various topics pertaining to collaboration in public management, such as:
*The external environments of public organizations and the influence of environmental factors on organizations.
*The opportunities and threats that are inherent to interorganizational collaboration by public organizations.
*When and why public organizations are likely to rely on prospective, collaborative strategies, and in which circumstances this contributes to public performance.
*How collaborative networks can be distinguished from more traditional forms of organization (i.e. markets and hierarchies).
*What management behaviors contribute to the success of these inter-organizational networks.
*How collaboration can give rise to more innovative public organizations, by drawing on perspectives such as open innovation and co-creation.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, students are able to:
*Identify the importance of collaboration and networks in public management;
*Distinguish between different modes of collaboration;
*Provide a critical reflection on the promises and pitfalls of collaboration in the public sector based on research and theory;
*Evaluate in what situations prospective, externally oriented strategies are likely to occur and be effective;
*Analyze how management contributes to the success of inter-organizational networks;
*Provide strategic recommendations for a collaborative governance arrangement in the public sector.
Timetable
On the right side of programme front page of the E-guide you will find links to the website and timetables, uSis and Brightspace.
Mode of Instruction
*Lectures 7x2 hours
*Seminars 7x2 hours
Attendance for the seminars is compulsory.
Assessment method
Individual assignment (50%) and group assignment (50%). Each assignment needs to be completed with a grade of 5.5 or higher to pass the course. The final grade for the course is established by determining the weighted average of the partial grades. Compensation of partial grades with other partial grades is not possible. Students are allowed to re-take failed assignments.
From 2020-2021 onwards, partial grades will not remain valid after the exam and the resit of the course.
Reading list
Articles will be available through the university library. This will be announced in the syllabus.
Registration
Register for every course and workgroup via uSis. Some courses and workgroups have a limited number of participants, so register on time (before the course starts). In uSis you can access your personal schedule and view your results. Registration in uSis is possible from four weeks before the start of the course.
From the academic year 2020-2021 Leiden University uses Brightspace as its online learning management system. After enrollment for the course in uSis you will be automatically enrolled in the Brightspace environment of this course.
Contact
Dr. K. Suzuki - k.suzuki@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. P. van den Bekerom – p.e.a.van.den.bekerom@fgga.leidenuniv.nl