公共管理专业的学生将学习开发和管理负责任和有效的公共政策实施系统所需的领导和决策技巧。这些是具有挑战性的目标。要负责任，管理人员必须了解其权限范围，承担职责职责，并了解如何以公开透明的方式衡量和报告其工作成果。为了提高效率，管理者必须知道如何将政策目标转化为组织和管理实践的战略重点，以衡量其努力是否产生了预期的政策成果。<br> <br>在当前时代，大多数公共政策是通过以下方式实施的：复杂的公共计划网络，需要公共，私人和非营利组织的才能和资源。这些网络通过合同，资金机制，监管和报告关系绑定在一起。在现代，
Students in the public management concentration learn the leadership and decision-making skills needed in developing and managing systems for implementing public policy that are accountable and effective. These are challenging goals. To be accountable, managers must understand the scope of their authority, accept responsibility for their duties, and understand how to measure and report the fruits of their efforts in an open and transparent way. To be effective, managers must know how to translate policy goals into strategic priorities for their organization and management practices that measure whether their efforts are yielding the desired policy outcomes.<br><br>In the current era, most public policies are implemented through complex networks of public programs that call upon the talents and resources of public, private, and not-for-profit organizations. These networks are bound together through contracts, funding mechanisms, regulatory and reporting relationships. An accountable and effective manager in the modern era must have a detailed understanding of how different types of organizations and policy tools interact with one another. The public management concentration is designed to provide students the perspective to be effective managers whether working for a public, private, or not-for-profit organization.