Executive Public Policy Management (PADM90016)

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• acquire an understanding of key financial and legal concepts in public finance;
• understand the complexities of developing and executing budgets, evaluating performance, and decision-making;
• explain the distinguishing characteristics of projects and consequent managerial challenges and ethical considerations;
• develop a formal project plan and explain its purpose, content and readership;
• have a sophisticated appreciation of the factors and processes driving parliamentary revision of the relevant legal frameworks governing labour relations law and the financial appropriations process.
• have an advanced and integrated understanding of the legal principles of Australian employment and labour relations law in a public sector context; and

A student who has successfully completed this subject will:

• be able to demonstrate competence in critical, creative and theoretical thinking through essay writing, seminar discussion and presentations, conceptualising theoretical problems, forming judgments and arguments from conflicting evidence, and by critical analysis.
• be able to demonstrate proficiency in the application of project management theory and best practice to empirical problems.
• have a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of key concepts in public finance.
• have a high-level ability to combine the theory and practice of public finance in a meaningful way in order to address advisory challenges and reflect critically on one's own professional practice.