Lectures

The course aims to familiarize students with the issues of

- the role of public authority and its mechanisms of action in the modern world

- the interactions between levels of administrative planning and policy making (international, EU, national, regional, regional, local)

- the relationship between the political and technical dimensions in the functioning of the State and local government

- the structure of public services, the functions they perform, the importance of the procedures followed and the effective way in which they are designed

- the ways in which the public administration allocates, manages and controls the use of its resources

- the ways in which the public administration manages and develops its staff

Knowledge: Having successfully completed the course, students will be familiar with the various dimensions of the administrative phenomenon, in particular the bureaucratic paradigm and how it appears in contemporary public action. They will be familiar with the concept of public management, its basic functions and its contemporary characteristics. They will understand public administration as a field of social action and public organizations as productive mechanisms, analyzing their formal and informal dimensions. They will also understand public organization as a communication mechanism and as a mechanism for the production of collective and individual knowledge. They will also be familiar with the institutional constitution of the Greek administration and the institutional framework for the organization of public services.

Skills: Students who successfully complete the course will be able to apply methodologies of organizational design and in particular differentiation of organizational functions, departmentalization, estimation of the number of jobs and scope of supervision. They will be able to carry out the design of administrative procedures, job description and job evaluation and the design of organizational charts.

Competencies: Students will be able to contribute to organizational design and human resource management as well as training and staff development policies in Greek state and local government institutions.

- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies

- Adapting to new situations

- Decision-making

- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

- Exercising critical and self-critical judgement

- Promoting free, creative and deductive thinking

The course is developed in 13 units, in corresponding lectures:

1.Defining the Administrative Phenomenon, The Bureaucratic Paradigm,

2.The Administrative Phenomenon in the New Conditions of Public Action. Public Management, its basic functions and its characteristics in the new conditions of public action.

3.The New Public Management (NPM ) , A New Model: Entrepreneurial Management,

4.Public Administration as a field of social action. The concept and categorization of public goods. E-governance as a new framework for public action.

5.Public organisations. The organisation as a productive mechanism. Formal and informal organisations. Organisation and communication. The management of organisational knowledge.

6.Organizations and their environment. Coordination and organisation.

7.Organizational Design. The differentiation of organizational functions.

8.Segmentation, estimation of the number of jobs and the scope of supervision

9.Description and evaluation of positions. The command module and matrix-type organizations.

10. The Organization of the Greek State, State administration, Local Government, Public Sector, Institutional framework for the organization of Public Services

11.Human Resources Management, Personnel management and development policies, Training in the context of personnel development, The role of personnel management.

12.Teamwork and participative management: the people-centred approach in public organisations.

13.Human Resource Management in the Greek Public Administration.

1.Tsekos Theodoros, 2014, Public Administration: Theory and Practice, University Notes, University of Peloponnese.

2.Dalakou Vasiliki, Sotiropoulos Dimitris , 2021,The modern administrative system in Greece, EAP Publications.

3.Makridimitris Antonis, Pravita Maria-Iliana Public Administration , Public Administration , Edition: 5/2012, Sakkula Publications SA

4.Triandafillopoulou Athanasia, Kostis Yiannis, 2015, The history of governmental and administrative institutions in Greece, Sakkula Publications, 5th Edition, 5th Edition, 5th Edition, Sakkula Publications, 5th Edition, 5th Edition.

5. Rammata Maria, 2011, Contemporary Greek Public Administration, Kritiki Publications

6.Babalioutas Lambros, 2018 & 2019The modern institutional framework of Greek Public Administration, [Regional and Local Government], vol. 1 &2, Sakkula Publications SA

7.Iordanoglou Dimitra, 2008, Human Resources Management in modern organizations. New trends and practices. New trends and trends in HR management, new trends and trends.

8.Papadimitriou Konstantinos, 2019, Organizational Design and Greek Public Administration, Dionikos Publications.

9.Panagiotou Nikolaos , Evangelopoulos Nikolaos , Katimertzoglou Petros, Gagialis Sotirios , 2013, Business Process Management. Organization, reorganization and improvement , Keydarithmos Publications.