Master's courses (outline)

Foundations of Public Management (engl.)

The ability to lead an organization, make things happen, and achieve change are among the fundamental skills to contribute to the development of an organization. This course addresses a number of concepts that are used to lead organizations and shape change. The objective of this course is to provide you with an understanding of core issues and problems in the field of public administration management. You should be able to understand and integrate the special framework and characteristics of public administration for management and recognize basic concepts and models for analyzing the respective management issues. In the progress of the course, students should be familiar with, be able to classify, and be able to carry out practice-oriented problem formulations and analyses and scientific questions and analyses related to the subject area.

Ressourcenmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung (deutsch)

The efficient and effective use of limited economic, political, and legal resources in public organizations is a classic core topic of public management. This topic is not only relevant for understanding public management, but it also represents a central subject of complex change processes. This course will examine key topics in resource management. In particular, it will focus on selected areas of reform approaches in financial and human resources management. The course will discuss options for overcoming the associated challenges. These considerations will be framed by the question of how public organizations can manage their resources in an integrated manner.

In the colloquium, students whose theses are or will be supervised at the chair are given the opportunity to present their projects. The aim is to discuss the topic, question, methodology and, if applicable, results of the respective project through feedback from fellow students and supervisors, to clarify open questions and thus to accompany the writing of the thesis or the corresponding research process. In addition, the knowledge of the students on topics of scientific work, such as citation and plagiarism, and on methodology, such as formulation of a research question, conception of a research design, or various survey methods will be refreshed.

Seminare im Sommersemester 2025

• Organizational Change in the Public Sector
• Strategic Management in the public sector
• New Work: Neues Arbeiten und Führen in digitalisierten Arbeitsstrukturen

Seminare im Wintersemester 24/25

• Foundations of Public Management
• Ressourcenmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung
• Projektkurs Public Management: Grundlagen und Methoden des Prozessmanagements im öffentlichen Sektor 

Seminare im Sommersemester 2024

• Modernisierung im öffentlichen Sektor - Organisationstheorien
• Modernization in the public sector - Strategic Management
• New Work: Neues Arbeiten und Führen in digitalisierten Arbeitsstrukturen

Seminare im Wintersemester 23/24

• Foundations of Public Management
• Projektkurs Public Management mit der Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg
• New Work: Neues Arbeiten und Führen in digitalisierten Arbeitsstrukturen
• Research Project Public Management: Digital transformation in local government
• Ressourcenmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung

Seminare im Sommersemester 2023

• Experiments in Public Administration and Management
• Modernisierung im öffentlichen Sektor - Organisationstheorien
• New Work: Neues Arbeiten und Führen in digitalisierten Arbeitsstrukturen
• Projektkurs Public Management mit der Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg

Seminare im Wintersemester 22/23

• Foundations of Public Management
• Ressourcenmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung
• New Work: Neues Arbeiten und Führen
• Projekt Public Management: Zukunftsszenarien der digitalen Verwaltungseinheit
• Public Management Research Project: Looking Behind the Curtain of Big Data Buzzwording

Seminare im Sommersemester 2022

• Modernisierung im öffentlichen Sektor - Organisationstheorien
• Modernization in the public sector - Strategic Management
• Projektkurs Public Management: Prozessmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung
• Public Management Project: Positive Management Challenges
• Public Management Research Project: Beyond the usual suspects

Seminare im Wintersemester 21/22

• Foundations of Public Management
• Ressourcenmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung
• Verwaltungsportale
• Projektkurs Public Management: Positive Management
• Lehrforschungsprojekt Public Management: Datenerhebung

Seminare im Sommersemester 2021

• Modernization in the public sector - Strategic Management
• Projektkurs Public Management

Seminare im Wintersemester 20/21

• Foundations of Public Management
• Ressourcenmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung
• Projektkurs Public Management
• Lehrforschungsprojekt Public Management

Seminare im Sommersemester 2020

• Modernisierung im öffentlichen Sektor - Organisationstheorien
• Modernization in the public sector - Strategic Management
• Projektkurs Public Management

Seminare im Wintersemester 19/20

• Foundations of Public Management
• Ressourcenmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung
• Projektkurs Public Management: Wissensmanagement
• Lehrforschungsprojekt Public Management: Public Encounter

Seminare im Sommersemester 2019

• Modernisierung im öffentlichen Sektor - Management der digitalen Transformation
• Modernization in the public sector - Strategic Management
• Projektkurs Public Management
• Lehrforschungsprojekt Public Management: Innovations in Public Services Design and Delivery