"This course focuses on strategic management and leadership in the public sectors of democratic societies. It critically examines and applies the assumptions, concepts and tools of the new approaches to public management that are being applied around the world. It presents a broad analytic approach to the problems that managers face and aims at the development of integrated strategies for improving performance in solving serious problems in the public sphere. It should complement specialized courses that focus in more detail on the particular tools that managers use, and should help students integrate the knowledge they have gained from their experience and from previous course work. Important strategic aspects that will be examined in the course include: the importance of strategy in the public sector, an overview of strategies concepts and issues, the strategic management process, useful support technique and strategy in practices with case study and innovation in public sector."