F ACULTY OF A RTS AND S CIENCES
O RGANIZATION G OVERNANCE AND M ANAGEMENT
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Governance, Policy, and
Organization (‘GPO’)
774845
Core
BA1
(in the future)
7.5
2014-2015
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helmut.vink@ua.aw
luciano.milliard@ua.aw
1 Description
The module is both an introduction into the core object of the study Organization, Governance, and Management
(‘OGM’), namely governance, management, and organization, and an introduction into its core focus, the disciplines
public administration and organizational sciences. The module aims at the ‘how’ question of governance in the
public sector and the non-profit sector: can we understand how governance works; how policy is made, and how
stakeholders and administration interact?
2 Prior knowledge and link to other modules
There are no entry requirements to attend this module. By introducing several key terms and concepts of the study
OGM (such as governance, management, policy, politics, power, state, public versus private domain, culture and
organization), the module GPO prepares the student for participation in various modules. In particular, the module
GPO connects to the modules Perspectives on Organizations; Disciplinary approaches to Organizations; The Classics;
Community Project; Policy, Rationality, and Power; Constitutional and Administrative Law; Public Management;
Strategic Management, and Between Plan and Practice.
3 Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, the student will be able to:
Knowledge (remember previously learned information)
1. Outline the object of study, theoretical orientation, task perception, and ambitions of the discipline of public
administration;
2. Define the object of study of organizational sciences, and state the differences with the disciplines of
business administration and public administration;
3. List the various meanings and forms of governance, management, and organization by indicating the specific
features and differences;
4. Define the various phases in the process of policy making describing the distinctive activities that take place
in each phase;
5. Identify six contexts and five actors that interact with the public administration in the area of policymaking;
Comprehension (demonstrate an understanding of the facts)
6. Recognize and describe the organizational theoretical concepts of organizing, culture, power, conflict,
control, environment and strategy, including different perspectives;
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7. Distinguish between the analytical and political perspectives on policymaking, evidenced by explanation of
their particular features and differences in each phase of the policy making process;
8. Recognize and describe the interactions and tensions between electors, parliament, administrators with
political responsibility, and the civil service;
9. Explain the characteristics, social significance, and managing of nonprofit organizations;
Application (apply knowledge to actual situations)
10. Explain the multiform, ambivalent, and dynamic manifestations of public administration as practice in clear
terms and give illustrative examples;
11. Name five generally accepted reasons for governmental steering (public governance), and the associated
problems of the related government interventions, and give illustrative examples;
12. Explain how the different parts of public administration are interrelated to the social midfield
(‘maatschappelijk middenveld’) and the business community (‘bedrijfsleven’), by making references to the
local context;
13. Explain the concept of civic engagement, referring to concrete local examples;
Analysis (break down objects for ideas into simpler parts and find evidence to support generalizations)
14. Demonstrate the basics for writing a policy advice;
15. Demonstrate the basics for making a presentation;
Evaluation (make and defend judgments based on internal evidence or external criteria)
16. Propose policy solutions to a social problem, assuming a problem definition, an analysis of causes, an
identification of relevant stakeholders, a selection of possible solutions, and supporting research.
4 Assessment
Learning
Assessment (paper / research /
outcome
written exam/ presentation / debate
/ other)
1-16.
Active participation & responsibility
3, 15.
Presentation
4-8, 14, 16.
Policy proposal
2-7, 9-13.
Reading questions
Percentage
Must
pass
Date
Resit Date
10%
20%
45%
25%
Y
Y
Y
Y
Each session.
22/09/2014
08/12/2014
To be
submitted
before next
session.
n.a.
n.a.
18/12/2014
n.a
To pass this module the student should score a minimum grade of 5.5 for every evaluation element (the evaluation is
subject to the lecturer’s appraisal only).
5 Work forms
Work forms
Interactive lectures
Tutoring
Work groups
Presentations
Used
Y
Y
Y
Y
2
6 Literature
Author
Title
Bovens,
Openbaar bestuur. Beleid,
M.A.P.,
organisatie en politiek.
a.o. (ed.)
Jans, R.
Het schrijven van
beleidsadviezen.
Anheier,
Nonprofit organizations.
H.K.
Theory, management, policy.
Bevir, M.
Governance. A very short
introduction.
Minogue,
Politics. A very short
K.
introduction.
All other information that was
provided for educational
purposes during the sessions of
the Units 1-24. E.g.: reader and
power point presentations.
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8
Unit
ISBN-13
978-90-13-10013-6
Mandatory
Y
978-90-244-1468-0
Y
978-0-415-55047-5
Y
978-0-19-960641-2
Y
978-0-19-285388-2
Y
Participation
 Active class participation & responsibility: The student’s responsibilities to this class include an attendance of
at least 19 of the 24 scheduled sessions, and an active role during the interactive lectures, class discussion,
work group sessions, answering on reading questions, and the preparation and presentation of assignments.
Students give feedback to and are open to receive feedback from peers on presentations. Finally, with
respect to assignments the student is expected to comply with due dates. In case of an insufficient grade for
‘active class participation & responsibility’, the student will not pass the course.
Planning
Date
2014
Topic
Lecturer/Guest
Integrated with
the module
Aug. 27
1
Work form
Introduction.
Interactive
lecture.
Helmut Vink
Sept. 1
2
Helmut Vink
Sept. 3
3
Helmut Vink
Sept. 3
4
Y
Helmut Vink
Perspectives on
Organizations
- Organization theory.
- Organization.
- Organizational forms.
- Reading questions (2).
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
groups.
- Organizational culture I.
- Integrative case (3).
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
groups.
- Organizational culture II.
- Reading questions (4).
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
Mandatory literature
[Recommended
literature]
Bovens: 18-36,
211-213;
Anheier: 301
(figure 11.7).
Reader, Unit 2;
Bovens: 169-176,
203-211;
Anheier: 272-275;
Bovens: 179-189.
Reader, Unit 3;
Bovens: 176-179.
Reader, Unit 4.
3
groups.
Sept. 8
Charlene Leslie/
Helmut Vink
5
Sept. 10
Helmut Vink/
Charlene Leslie
6
Sept. 15
7
8
9
- Power, conflict and control.
- Integrative case (6).
- Reading questions (6).
Sept. 17
Sept. 24
Sept. 29
Yolanda
Richardson
Helmut Vink
Helmut Vink
Oct. 1
11
Helmut Vink
Oct. 8
12
Oct. 27
Presentation guidelines.
Presentations (9).
- Public administration:
discipline and practice
(public governance).
- Reading questions (10)
- What is public policy?
- Policy: rationality versus
power.
- Introduction policy
assignment.
- Policy assignment (11).
- Policy and environment.
- Policy assignment (12).
- The struggle for policy.
- Policy assignment (13).
Helmut Vink
Oct. 29
14
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
groups.
Work groups.
Helmut Vink
13
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
groups.
Preparation presentations.
None
10
Helmut Vink
Nov. 5
15
Perspectives on
Organizations
- Management, leadership,
decision making.
- Reading questions (5).
Helmut Vink
- Working on policy
assignment.
- Nonprofit organizations:
dimensions and approaches.
- Reading questions (15).
- Working on policy
assignment.
Interactive
lecture.
Presentations
Interactive
lecture.
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
groups.
- Tutoring.
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
groups.
- Tutoring.
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
groups.
- Tutoring.
Reader, Unit 5;
Anheier: 327-328,
336-346;
Bovens: 190-198,
200-201.
Reader, Unit 6;
Reader, Unit 7;
Bovens: 43-47;
Bevir: 37-56; 57-79;
80-100; 101-119.
Reader, Unit 9.
Reader, Unit 10;
Bovens:
365 (schedule 11.1),
370 (figure 11.1),
51-69;
Anheier: 201.
Reader, Unit 11;
Bovens: 69-90;
Jans: 7-24.
Reader, Unit 12;
Bovens: 98 (figure
3.1),
112 (figure 3.2), 214217, 117 (figure 3.3),
126;
Jans: 25-42;
Bovens: 81-83.
Reader, Unit 13;
Bovens: 132-142, 149
(figure 4.1), 153
(figure 4.2), 158-165;
Jans: 57-72
- Work
groups.
- Tutoring.
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
groups.
- Tutoring.
Reader, Unit 15;
Bovens: 23
(schedule); 212
(schedule 6.1);
Anheier: 301
(schedule 11.7).
Anheier: 4-10, 60, 61,
72-87, 119-121, 143,
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Nov. 10
16
Helmut Vink
Nov. 12
Nonprofit sector in Aruba.
P.M:
Guest lecturer
17
18
Nov. 19
P.M.:
Guest lecturer
Nov. 20
19
22
Nov. 26
Dec. 3
Working on policy
assignment.
Helmut Vink
Deadline first version policy
assignment.
Luciano Milliard
Luciano Milliard
Dec. 8
23
Helmut Vink
Dec. 10
24
Total
units
Luciano Milliard
24
Public-private partnerships.
Helmut Vink
Nov. 24
20
21
- Managing nonprofit
organizations.
- Reading questions (16).
- Working on policy
assignment.
The historical roots of politics.
The experience of politics.
Deadline final version policy
assignment.
Working relationships
between politicians and civil
servants.
- Interactive
lecture.
- Work
groups.
- Tutoring.
144, 190, 191.
Reader, Unit 16;
Anheier: 196-202,
250-253, 257, 258,
260, 272, 285-288,
293-301, 318-320,
354, 355, 377-380,
413-416, 420, 421,
458-462.
Interactive
lecture.
Interactive
lecture
- Work
groups.
- Tutoring.
- Work
groups.
- Tutoring.
Interactive
lecture
Interactive
lecture
- Work
groups.
- Tutoring.
Interactive
lecture
Bovens: 217-220;
Anheier: 445-448.
Minoque: 1-33
Minoque: 61-85
Bovens: 329-250
Total pages: P.M.
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