Strategies and Performance Management in Public Administrations

The course aims to provide, from an economic-business perspective, elements for the formulation of corporate policies and strategies, also in relation to their implementation and resource allocation. The course focuses on the main methods and tools for examining evaluation and control systems in public administrations. In particular, some of the main types of control and evaluation in the Italian public administrations will be examined. Furthermore, the organizational and managerial implications related to the functioning of evaluation and control systems in public companies will be analyzed.

At the end of the course, students will be able to: i) know the elements of strategic planning and the strategy formulation process; ii) identify and interpret the evaluation systems currently in use in the Italian public administrations, their evolution and the reasons for their failure; iii) distinguish and analyse, from a systemic perspective, the load-bearing dimensions of a planning, evaluation and control system; iv) examine, from an economic-business perspective, the functioning of an evaluation and control system in the public sphere; v) analyse the main determinants of the implementation gap (with reference to strategic planning) and improper phenomena/distorting factors of control and evaluation systems.