Public management considers that government and non-profit administration resembles private-sector management in some important ways. As such, there are management tools appropriate in public and in private domains, tools that maximize efficiency and effectiveness. Study and teaching about public management are widely practiced in developed nations. Such credentials as the Master of Public Administration degree offer training decision making relevant to the public good using public infrastructure.

The public manager will often deal with critical infrastructure that affects quality of life.

Trust in public managers, and the large sums spent at their behest, make them subject to many more conflict of interest and ethics guidelines in most nations.

Many entities study public management in particular, in various countries, including:

• In the US, the American Society for Public Administration
• In Canada, the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, the Observatoire de l'Administation publique, and various projects of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Infrastructure Canada
• In the UK, the UK local democracy project and London Health Observatory
• In France, the École nationale d'administration

Public management compares, through government performance auditing, the efficiency and effectiveness of two or more governments.

[edit] See also

• New Public Management
• Public administration

[edit] External links

• National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
• International Public Management Network
• International Public Management Association for Human Resources
• Public Management Review - a journal
• Public Management Institute
• Jarislowsky Chair in Public Sector Management[1]
• ESADE's Institute of Public Management e-bulletinde:Public Management

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