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European Foundation for Management Development
16th Annual Public Sector Conference
MANAGING FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Bocconi University School of Management (Milano, Italy)
September 20-22, 2001
The public sector is changing, under the pressures to deliver more,
better and cheaper services. Citizens have become more critical, and
demand more efficiency and greater effectiveness. Hierarchies,
rules and other traditional means of ensuring public service
provision are losing their impact, while in many countries
market-like arrangements are being introduced, across and inside
public sector bodies.
These trends are shifting increased responsibilities on a new breed
of managers, who are advocating additional degrees of freedom to be
able to deliver vis-à-vis citizens' expectations. The discretion
entrusted to managers must face not only a growing demand for
services, but also an emerging willingness of citizens to have a say
in decisions about priority setting and service provision. Exercises
in leadership can give rise to concerns about "democracy gaps",
unless they are tempered by effective accountability mechanisms.
The more service delivery is contracted out, the more "public
management" comes to identify the capacity by governments to steer
the evolution of societies via mechanisms different from traditional
"command and control". At all levels of government, therefore, the
need is felt to reframe the relationship among citizens, politicians
and managers, i.e. the patterns of public governance.
The Conference organized by the European Foundation of Management
Development, in joint venture with the Public Management Department
of Bocconi University School of Management, on "Managing for Good
Governance" provides a unique forum to discuss how these changes are
redefining the responsibilities of today's public sector managers.
For the full Conference Programme and any further details please
visit the efmd web page at
http://www.efmd.be/conference/public_sector2001
or e-mail Luca Brusati ([log in to unmask]) or Harald
Plamper ([log in to unmask]).
Luca G. Brusati, Ph.D.
Director for International Relations
Public Management Department
Bocconi University School of Management
Via Bocconi 8
20136 Milano, Italy
phone (+3902) 5836-6221
fax (+3902) 5836-6832
e-mail [log in to unmask]
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