India, 2008 - Executive Program in Public Management

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Conference Dates: February 11-15, 2008
Location: Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad

This Executive Programme in Public Management will enable senior public officials to benchmark Innovations and Good Practices in New Public Management. The programme is targeted at Permanent Secretaries and members of the senior management category within the national civil service. Emphasis will be placed on professionals with demonstrated executive capabilities and the capacity to become change agents in their respective organisations. Participants will learn through interaction with their peers from across the Commonwealth.

This is an interactive programme, which will provide participants with opportunities to freely exchange ideas, knowledge and experience with each other and the resource persons concerned.

The programme will help participants to:

• Spearhead changes at senior levels within their agencies/organisations
• Implement good practice in public management policies and programmes
• Develop the required professional management perspectives for operating in an environment of leading public sector and economic reform
• Acquire benchmark for best practices in the design, development, implementation and delivery of government programmes and policies
• Draw out the learning lessons in terms of ‘innovations and good practices’ in public management
• Establish Programme Alumni as CAPAM members which will help to facilitate the creation of a self-sustaining network to aid a learning organisation

The Programme will have five key components, focusing on the following core areas:

• Leading organisational transformation
• Financial and Project Management
• Knowledge management and governance
• Management of Change
• Decentralisation of Government and Service Delivery

There will also be a practicum, which is an exercise in ‘action learning’ where participants will be asked to develop action plans addressing specific issues currently faced by their organisations. Participants will have the opportunity to undertake the assignment related to their own organisation or career planning.

The practicum will be identified prior to the commencement of the programme.

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