Mag. Dr. Alfred Hödl
Head of Master's Degree Program Public Management; Head of Research Center Administrative Sciences
+43 1 606 68 77-3831
alfred.hoedl@hcw.ac.at
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Please note that only federal employees are eligible to apply.
Public Management builds on the bachelor's degree of the same name and supports the changes in the public sector: administration reforms and restructuring affects federal, provincial and municipal structures and also quasi-public companies. The degree program imparts know-how on operational and strategic public management, preparing you for active participation in modernization processes. Your challenge will be to introduce management systems and methods into the public sector and to deploy targeted design and control functions.
Master of Arts in Business (MA)
Tuition fee per semester
€ 363,361
+ ÖH contribution + costs for optional additional services, if applicable2
Application Winter semester 2027/28
01. December 2026 - 11. April 2027
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1 Tuition fees for students from third countries € 727 per semester. Details on tuition fees can be found in the general fee regulations.
2 The costs depend on the additional services selected from the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna, such as work clothing, licenses, tutorials, or excursions.
The application is only possible for federal employees.
You are keen to advance your professional career and you recognize the potential of public governance. You have many ideas in the fields of restructuring of public institutions and companies which you are keen to contribute. This also involves critically scrutiny of budgeting processes and controlling structures. You have an interest in the adaptation of management systems to suit the peculiarities and the special mandate of the public sector. You like working with people and are interested in managerial functions.
You will build a sustainable network from day one of your studies.
We invite you to join us in linking topics and thinking in a completely new way.
Decision-makers and experts in their field will teach you at Hochschule Campus Wien.
The relevant admission requirement is
A total of 180 ECTS credits for example from the subject areas
You need a minimum number of ECTS credits in the following core subjects:
If you are unable to provide proof of the required ECTS credits in the respective core subjects, or can only provide partial proof, you must take an additional examination, the scope and content of which correspond to the above list.
The required language level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is at least
Please note that only federal employees are eligible to apply.
Applicants may require legalization of documents from countries other than Austria in order for them to have the evidential value of domestic public documents. Information on the required legalizations can be found here in PDF format.
For documents that are neither in German nor English, a translation by a sworn and court-certified interpreter is required. Your original documents should have all the necessary legalization stamps before translation so that the stamps are also translated. The translation must be firmly attached to the original document or a legalized copy.
As part of your online application, upload scans of your original documents including all required legalization stamps. For documents not issued in German or English, scans of the corresponding translations must also be uploaded. The head of the study program decides on the equivalence of international (higher) education qualifications. Therefore, your documents can only be checked as part of the ongoing application process.
Your path to studying at Hochschule Campus Wien begins with your registration on our application platform. In your online account, you can start your application directly or activate a reminder if the application phase has not yet started.
Proof of identity
Change of name - proof
Proof of fulfillment of the relevant admission requirement
If you have not yet completed your studies, please upload proof of all courses completed to date as part of the relevant degree program, including ECTS credits.
Proof of language skills German B2
For admission, German language skills of at least level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) must be provided.
The following applies as proof:
Proof of a higher language level is also valid.
Your application is valid once you have completely uploaded the required documents. If you do not have all the documents at the time of your online application, please submit them immediately upon receipt by email to the administration of your study program (see section “Contact”).
After completing your online application, you will receive an email confirmation with information on the next steps.
The admission procedure includes a written test and an interview with the admissions committee.
The written admission procedures will take place online on
It is not possible to select a specific date.
Dates for the admission interviews will be announced in good time. Following the written admission procedure, you will receive a written invitation by email with your personal appointment date.
The Public Management program was developed together with the Federal Chancellery and is an academic program tailored to suit the public sector; it is practice-oriented and comparable in terms of the Bologna process to other studies and internationally. Practical relevance is also guaranteed through our Campus Lecture evenings, with lectures presented by prominent experts. Numerous Federal Government experts and many others from divested companies lecture in the degree programs and we have strong ties not only nationally, but Europe-wide.
The master degree program builds on the bachelor degree program in Public Management and is a further step towards the consistent implementation of a fully-fledged and globally comparable degree program tailored for the public sector. As opposed to university studies such as law or economics, the part-time master degree program and also the bachelor degree program are interdisciplinary, tailored degree programs which may be completed in the minimum period. It is the most effective tool for public sector (change) management.
Strategic and operational Public Management offers you the special mix of subjects you need for the development and control of complex change processes at local authorities or quasi-public companies and interest groups. Especially control often proved to be a weak point in the past, due to the lack of know-how in this field. You will enhance your visionary faculties as you deal with current trends and research issues in international Public Management.
The master's degree centers on strategic and operational Public Management and Leadership.
Graduates analyze negotiations and interpret decision-making processes qualitatively.
Graduates manage negotiations as executives and conclude them successfully.
Graduates involve their employees in the development and ongoing evaluation of the goals, tasks and success criteria of the organization/organizational unit, and promote the potential, development, further training and employability of the employees.
Graduates evaluate work performance and motivation of themselves and their employees, conceive possibilities to increase it, and develop it in a targeted way and develop attractive and motivating work goals.
Graduates conduct a dialog on values with their employees in order to make possible areas of tension visible and to bring about a resolution, based on their knowledge of values and the change in values as well as their orientation towards public service ethos and the common good.
Graduates implement agility in a way that is adapted to the scope of design and the specifics of the organizational unit, within their area of responsibility.
Graduates reflect their actions and their inner attitude towards leadership issues through methods of self-knowledge, develop themselves further independently, and thus lead in a more credible and authentic way.
Graduates differentiate work functions and work preferences according to the concept of the Team Management System of Margerison/McCann for group and team work.
Graduates independently examine their self-management, self-efficacy and authentic leadership on the basis of fields of reflection and systems thinking, and develop ways to strengthen these.
Graduates develop attractive and motivating work goals with their knowledge of sociogenic motives (according to Roth) and motivators.
Graduates evaluate their own work performance and motivation and design ways to increase it and develop it further.
Graduates apply decision-making methods that promote employee involvement and agility, based on their knowledge of group decision-making.
By controlling the group dynamics, graduates develop specific impulses for Work 4.0, virtual, cross-generational, self-controlling teams and liveliness in their organizational units in accordance with their specificity.
Graduates recognize the four stages of devaluation and develop suggestions for resolving them in concrete situations.
Graduates deepen their ability to perceive others in order to recognise errors of judgement and to confront these with new constructivist perspectives.
Graduates recognize potential in themselves and their employees and develop concepts for their further development.
Theory inputs, individual and group work, dialogue and discussion in plenary or via moodle (question-answer forum), structured exercises with feedback, case work, distance learning tasks (partly online elements), preparation of presentations), written seminar paper
Prerequisites
Contents from Bachelor's level degree: Basics of group dynamics (group, team, team phases, team roles (Belbin), power positions, basic orientation according to Riemann-Thomann), new team forms (multinational, agile, self-controlling, virtual, cross-generational), Johari window, rules for feedback, basics of transaction analysis, basics about burn-out and increasing resilience
Final exam: Immanent examination character: Readiness for self-reflection, cooperation during the attendance time, working out the distance learning according to the information, written seminar work for the integration and consolidation of the teaching contents, presentations, distance learning exercises are included in the assessment.
Deutsch
Behavioral Theory
Conduct of negotiations
Decision-making processes
Context of behaviour-motive decision
Graduates are able to name the basics of behavior theory and motivation research.
Graduates are able to recognize the purpose of the phases in the integrative phase model of successful negotiation.
Graduates are able to connect psychosocial/psychodynamic patterns with underlying motives.
Graduates are able to analyze body language and spoken words with regard to motivation.
Graduates are able to know the basics of decision making and combine them with motivation theory.
Graduates interpret decision-making processes in negotiations qualitatively.
Impulse lectures, group discussions, case study work, practical exercises, role play.
Final exam: Immanent performance assessment, short reflections, group work, distance learning exercises
Short reflections, presentations; processing of case studies
Deutsch-Englisch
Graduates apply the basic elements of controlling organizations and human behavior within the framework of their decision-making and action options.
Graduates apply principles and selected instruments of systemic strategy development.
Graduates organize themselves a support system with which they develop strategies.
Graduates know selected methods of strategic management and can apply them in practice.
Graduates make contributions to the medium-term (strategic) orientation of their organization (unit): alignment of the range of services and service provision, core competencies, make-or-buy decisions, and controlling by means of systemic holistic thinking.
Graduates take different diversity aspects into account in strategic decisions.
Graduates derive links between the individual incentive and motivation level and the systemic workings of public organizational structures.
Graduates understand the embedding of resource and performance management in the context of strategic public management and specifically in the control system of impact-oriented administrative management.
Graduates master the allocation of specific instruments of strategic controlling (strategic performance management, strategic resource and performance management) in the management cycle.
Graduates decode administrative backgrounds in the sense of a business and economic logic and, in connection therewith, appreciate the need for leadership competence for results-oriented network management.
Graduates recognize the forces of the omnipresent digital transformation as challenges and, in the context of different, interlinked megatrends,and develop their system potential.
Graduates have useful background to understand and influence organizational phenomena.
Graduates apply the basic principles of managing organizations and human behavior within the framework of their decision-making and action options.
Graduates grasp the identity of social systems and provide impulses for their further development.
Graduates identify patterns of emerging strategy development.
Graduates apply the principles and selected instruments of systemic strategy development.
Graduates organize themselves a support system with which they develop strategies.
Lectures, discussion, group work, reflection on your own professional practice, practical exercises
Final exam: Immanent performance assessment (completion of written tasks, reflection reports, presentations)
Deutsch
Graduates understand concepts of public welfare, practical examples from services of general interest and the functioning of the Austrian welfare state and establish cross-connections that have direct and indirect effects on other fields of public management.
Graduates think in a networked and larger context, and distinguish between different management styles.
Graduates use international models of good governance as a steering instrument in the public sector.
Graduates formulate visions of the future for the administration in accordance with the requirements of good governance, and develop management strategies for their implementation.
Graduates classify, analyze and evaluate the effects, role, significance and distributional impacts of the public sector.
Graduates evaluate financial policy instruments against the background of current economic policy challenges such as decentralization, digitization and decarbonization (sustainability and digitization), and apply them in specific cases.
Graduates analyze and evaluate the roles of the public sector as a fiscal policy actor with its objectives (allocation, distribution and stabilization) in the macroeconomic context.
Graduates distinguish between different concepts of public welfare and can evaluate and classify them.
Graduates apply the public value approach to the completion of tasks.
Graduates implement the concept of services of general interest.
Graduates develop common-interest oriented solutions to facts and problems.
Graduates describe different management styles and apply them in the context of public management tasks, think in a networked way and argue their points of view.
Lecture with discussion and feedback as well as group work with problems from practice and questions for the development of possible solutions; also via EduCast; interactive process, active cooperation and creative thinking and working
Final exam: The assessment of performance is carried out through the development and subsequent presentation of self-chosen problems from the public welfare sector and a final examination in the form of a written paper.
Deutsch
In-depth examination of the concept of "public governance" on the basis of selected specialist literature, including English language literature. [Internationalisation]
Development of the core elements of public governance.
Comparison of the models of public management and governance
Case studies of the application of governance criteria to analyze policies and public administrations
Use of public governance as a strategic decision-making concept
EU and OECD governance models. [Internationalisation]
Establishing a link to Sustainable Development Goal 16 (strong institutions)
Graduates apply the criteria of public governance to analyse policies and public administrations.
Graduates assess the status quo and the reform requirements of organisational units of public administration.
Graduates use the international models of good governance as a steering instrument in the public sector.
Graduates formulate visions of the future for the administration in accordance with the requirements of good governance and develop management strategies for their implementation.
Examination of technical literature, teaching discussion, processing or evaluation of case studies (group work), presentations with feedback and discussion. Use of distance learning with interactive elements.
Final exam: Cooperation, distance learning exercises, written work
Deutsch
Graduates are able to classify the role and significance of public budgets for overall economic development and to analyze and evaluate them.
Graduates recognize and evaluate the distributional effects of financial instruments independently.
Graduates design and evaluate taxes and transfers in the case of forms of market failure (public goods, external effects, imperfect markets).
Graduates describe and evaluate the interaction of financial policy makers with the goods and labour markets and are able to evaluate it.
Interactive and discursive lecture, group work, discussion, work assignments with feedback, group exercises, case studies, reading tasks
Final exam: Quiz on the teaching content of the units in each unit, discussion and participation, writing a short analysis of specific public expenditure areas and writing a short discussion paper in groups.
Deutsch
Based on the acquisition of knowledge about typologies, graduates recognize the legal bases and special issues of spin-offs. They recognize the importance of applying a sustainable, holistic, multidimensional modern organizational management, and implement it in a goal-oriented manner.
Graduates know the meaning, effect and characteristics of corporate culture on organizations and project these onto their parent organization. They analyze, reflect and understand the interaction of corporate culture, leadership culture and error culture.
Graduates correctly assess the importance of public relations in the external image of organizations, use their most important tools accordingly, and learn to formulate core messages in such a way that they achieve the desired effects internally and externally on the basis of a resource-oriented communication plan.
Graduates know the basics and the most important elements, instruments and systems of quality management in public administration in general, and by using the CAF - Common Assessment Framework as a European quality management system for public administration in particular.
Graduates know the instruments necessary for the management and control of outsourced public institutions, are able to handle them, and recognize the weaknesses and strengths of such institutions. Furthermore, they can provide a basis for decisions on whether and how a spin-off should take place.
Graduates correctly assess the importance of public relations work for organizations, use their most important tools accordingly, and can formulate key messages in such a way that they achieve the desired effects internally and externally.
Graduates draw up a basic communication plan and analyze the differences in the media and communication landscape. Taking into account the available resources, they establish the context to their own organization accordingly.
Graduates outline stakeholder relations, create concepts for integration into the communication structure of the organization, and assess tools of crisis communication in a structured and competent manner in crisis situations.
Graduates know the instruments necessary for the management and control of outsourced public institutions and apply them.
Graduates recognize the weaknesses and strengths of public institutions and provide a basis for decisions on whether and how a spin-off should take place, taking into account problems relevant to practice.
Lecture/presentation with activating methods, group work, discussion, work assignments with feedback, group exercises
Final exam: Final examination in writing and immanent performance assessment during the attendance units
Deutsch
Characteristics of corporate culture
Layering model / iceberg model
Error culture: characteristics, handling, effects
Connection between corporate culture - error culture - management culture
Practical examples
Graduates recognize the various dimensions and manifestations of corporate culture and break them down into their own operational organization.
Graduates critically examine their own corporate culture and examine its effects on their own and organizational activities.
Graduates critically and reflectively promote and analyze their company's error culture in order to derive potential for improvement.
Graduates know the connection between corporate culture, error culture and leadership behavior and recognize the effects of corporate culture and error culture on leadership behavior.
Graduates have an understanding of the necessity and possible approaches for organizational change processes.
Theory input, group work, individual work
Final exam: Written individual reflection
Continuous group work
MCT (varying)
Deutsch
Graduates understand international and national rules and mechanisms of action in depth and implement them.
Graduates analyze how the general Sustainability Goals of the United Nations (SDGs) and the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights can be derived and applied to various concrete areas of public administration. They recognize the importance of ethical thinking and social competence for strategic and operational action.
Graduates evaluate and assess the connections between society and state, between legislation and administration in democracy and the resulting conclusions for everyday administrative activities based on theory.
Graduates know about the importance of civil society and participation and its European aspects, and can orientate their administrative actions accordingly.
Graduates understand the legal foundations, structures and history of social partnership in Austria and the EU.
Graduates understand organizational development and administrative reform in cooperation with social partnership as the basis for the further development of the public sector.
Graduates make decisions (in management functions) within the framework of service and staff representation law, and recognize the framework of service and staff representation law.
Graduates are familiar with social conditions and the use of the terms "civil society" and "civil dialog" and can explain them.
Graduates evaluate and assess fundamental connections between society and state on the basis of theory and relate them to public management.
Graduates understand the democratic-theoretical involvement of citizens and their organizations in administrative actions, and can explain this.
Graduates recognize the tension between individual interests and social problems and are able to interact professionally in this field.
(Online) lecture and (e-)discussions; individual and group work, reflection
Continuous assessment: Immanent performance review, reflection and written examination
Deutsch-Englisch
Graduates analyze and understand complex problems in dealing with risks at individual, organizational and governmental levels.
Graduates are able to select, propose and apply suitable concepts, models and measures for dealing with risks at individual, organizational and state levels in an advisory or active capacity.
Graduates apply the core elements of organizational management and their interrelationships - especially with quality and change management.
Graduates recognize the essential contribution quality management makes to sustainable, holistic, multidimensional and modern organizational management and development.
Graduates know the basics and the essential elements, instruments and systems of quality management in public administration.
Graduates master the basic principles of the CAF - Common Assessment Framework as a European quality management system for public administration.
Graduates competently take on the role of project principals from a management perspective.
Graduates operationalize and implement business and functional strategies in portfolios of measures and establish governance structures for projects, programs and portfolios in the public sector.
The "risk society" - dealing with risks in a historical, social and governmental context
Basics of risk management in organization, society and state - Overview of terms, definitions, standards, regulations, laws
Principles of risk management - 4-phase model (identification, assessment, control, monitoring)
Risk management methods - qualitative and quantitative methods for identifying and assessing risks
Implementation of a risk management system in theory and practice - drivers and barriers at individual and organizational level
Risk management between individual decision and social participation - possibilities and problems in decision and participation processes
Risk communication - questions of risk perception and communication
Risk ethics - risk and safety as an ethical and moral problem
Graduates understand the basics of risk management in organizations.
Graduates analyze theory and practice of risk management in organizations.
Graduates are familiar with the regulations, models, standards and laws that are essential for managing risks in organizations.
Graduates recognize and name problems and possibilities in dealing with risks at individual, organizational and state level.
Graduates select various procedures for decision-making and participation of affected persons in connection with risks according to suitability.
Graduates discuss ethical questions in connection with the transfer of risks.
Lectures, discussion, group tasks, self-study (e.g. reading, research)
Final exam: Written examination
Deutsch
Graduates conduct research in scientific digital databases and apply methods of qualitative and quantitative social research in their own research.
Graduates formulate research-relevant questions from the profession-specific area.
Graduates create empirical research designs, collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data and critically question them.
Graduates interpret, assess and evaluate the results of research and evaluation studies and apply the analytical methods appropriate for fact-based decision-making.
Graduates apply scientific and analytical skills for the accompanying reflection of professional practice.
Graduates explain differences between everyday knowledge and scientific knowledge as well as the basics of the qualitative and quantitative research paradigm and apply it to practical examples.
Graduates know the interrelationships between theoretical perspective, problem definition, research question, methods and data and apply this knowledge in their own research process.
Graduates research scientific publications in digital databases on a specific topic and prepare a written report on it.
Graduates apply methods of quantitative social science by creating evaluation-oriented questionnaires including a statistical evaluation concept.
The combination of different teaching methods - lecture and distance learning, self-study, multiple-choice test, practical exercises based on individual and group work, discussion and feedback from peers and teachers - allows for a diverse transfer of knowledge and skills on the one hand and takes into account different learning types among students on the other. By means of practical applications, students are challenged in this exercise to acquire new competences and to reflect on them in connection with the contents of other courses. The selected working materials and research examples provide a reference to the central topics of the course as well as current focal points such as SDGs and digitisation.
Continuous assessment: The acquisition of the above-mentioned competences is checked within the framework of the immanent performance assessment on the basis of the following partial performances:
(1) Written reading assignments
(2) Multiple choice tests on the topics of literature research and citation guidelines
(3) Creation of a short quantitative questionnaire with an evaluation concept
Deutsch-Englisch
Graduates have profound theoretical knowledge of the specific realities in the policy fields of education, science and culture as well as an overview of the actors and the legal foundations of the policy fields.
Graduates describe and evaluate the various governance and organizational challenges that apply to these policy areas.
Graduates recognize public management as a cross-cutting task in various departments/policy fields and understand the cross-cutting demands of the individual policy fields (horizontal policy integration).
Graduates analyze structures of public administration and structural changes in administrative action.
Graduates introduce innovative approaches to administrative action and support such approaches.
Actors in the field of education, science and cultural policy
Issue-specific norms and institutional regimes, especially with regard to areas of tension in governance, including between:
Performance orientation, inclusion claims and social justice
Individualization and standardisation of educational processes and outcomes
Federal, national, European and global structures
Historical developments and current trends with special consideration of internationalisation tendencies and the increasing diversification of the Austrian society
Financial issues
Thematic theoretical approaches in relation to basic concepts such as culturalisation, knowledge, education and science research
Thematic field-related specifics of innovation processes, especially with regard to internationalisation and transnational knowledge transfer
Policy area analyses
Methodological issues in the social sciences
The importance of comparing and the historical development of social institutions and processes
On the social functions of education, science and culture
Policy field SCHOOL [The example of the Federal Ministry of Education since 1945]
Review: The Glöckel reforms at the beginning of the First Republic
School policy from 1945 until the school laws of 1962
School policy in the 1970s
School policy in the 21st century
Policy area ADULT EDUCATION
Policy field SCIENCE [Using the example of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research]
The creation of the new ministry and the new science and research policy in the 1970s
The UOG 1975 and the structures of the new democratic codetermination at Austrian universities
The UG 2002 and the consequences
The assignments of the science and research sector to the various ministries
Policy field CULTURE and Austrian specificities in this field
Graduates describe and evaluate the importance of policy field analyses and the conditions under which this administrative science research field was created.
Graduates describe and evaluate the social functions of the institutions of education and science as well as the various cultural institutions.
Graduates describe and evaluate the necessity and methods of historical comparison in the study of structural change in institutions of education, science and culture, and are able to assess structures and structural change in ministries.
Graduates analyze the steering and political shaping of education, science and culture using selected examples.
Graduates assess the interests of those involved in the institutions of education, science and culture.
Graduates reflect on the conscious and planned political shaping of the fields of education, science and culture.
Lecture, discussion, reading of selected texts and additional research, work in small groups
Continuous assessment: Project-oriented work in small groups for the comparative analysis of selected processes in the policy fields of education, science and culture
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Graduates have a profound theoretical knowledge of the specific realities and an overview of the actors and legal bases in the policy fields of health and social affairs, and are familiar with their various governance and organizational challenges.
Graduates recognize public management as a cross-cutting task in various fields/policy areas, and have an overview of social and health care systems compared across Europe.
Graduates understand the cross-sectional demands of the individual policy fields (horizontal policy integration).
Graduates apply the sustainability goals 2030 in the context of the policy fields and in their working environment, and evaluate and accompany current developments of digitization in the policy fields.
Graduates will be able to find all the actors of the Federal Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection, the interest groups of the social partnership, the health and care facilities in their organizational charts and use them for various issues in their own field of work.
Graduates analyse an overview of topic-specific norms and institutional regimes, such as labor law, social security law, social partnership and civil society, and apply them in their working environment where appropriate.
Graduates analyze all types of atypical forms of employment and evaluate future challenges in the care sector in terms of organization, personnel, demographics and economics.
Graduates analyze historical developments and current trends such as the impact of digitization on forms of work and labour law - keyword "Work 4.0", development of the health care system between public care and private service provision, with regard to new forms of organization (e.g. primary care units), financing and strategic handling of social diversity (LGBTIQ).
Graduates analyze and evaluate theoretical approaches related to policy and topics - labour market theories, pension and health models, social security models, demography, and migration research.
Lecture, group work, discussion, feedback, lecture with activating methods, work assignments with feedback, group exercises, peer feedback, case solutions, practical exercises, problem-based learning, online courses, excursion, circular questioning.
Continuous assessment: Immanent performance assessment (presentation, written work, case work, oral examination, reflection report, group work, cooperation, project work.
Deutsch
Graduates have a profound theoretical knowledge of the specific realities of security and justice policy, and have an overview of the actors and legal foundations in these policy areas.
Graduates compare innovation concepts in the policy fields of security and justice in terms of opportunity and risk, assess problems and approaches to solutions, and develop their own proposals for solving current or fictitious problems, either individually or in a team.
Graduates know the various governance and organizational challenges that apply to these policy areas.
Graduates recognize public management as a cross-cutting task in various departments/policy fields and understand the cross-cutting demands of the individual policy fields (horizontal policy integration).
Graduates recognize and explain interdisciplinary aspects and principles of systems, understand complex interrelationships, assess skills and factors of resilience, and apply the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development in the context of the policy fields of security and justice.
Graduates describe and evaluate relevant actors in the security and justice sector and the responsible federal ministries as well as in the police, public prosecutors' offices and courts and discrete actors such as intelligence services or media representatives according to presence and influence.
Graduates have an overview of the actors and the legal basis of the policy fields.
Graduates describe and evaluate the various governance and organisational challenges that apply in these policy areas and have an overview of the topic-specific norms.
Graduates explain historical developments and current trends in the context of the EU and evaluate hard and soft criteria of security.
Graduates describe and evaluate the cross-cutting demands of the individual policy fields (horizontal policy integration) and are able to apply thematic approaches from justice theories, security research and criminal sociology in a contextual way and to evaluate and help shape current innovation processes in the field of security and justice.
Lecture, group work, discussion, work assignments with feedback, case solutions, practical exercises
Continuous assessment: Immanent performance assessment (presentation, written work, case work)
Deutsch
Graduates have a profound theoretical knowledge of the specific realities of the policy fields of transport, energy and environment, as well as an overview of the actors and the legal basis of the policy fields.
Graduates know the various governance and organizational challenges that apply to these policy areas.
Graduates recognize public management as a cross-cutting task in various departments/policy fields and understand the cross-sectional demands of the individual policy fields (horizontal policy integration).
Graduates develop innovative and solution-oriented concepts for the implementation and management of the respective policy field-specific instruments in the strategic area.
Graduates also include the European and international level in their considerations and decisions and identify potential solutions.
Graduates describe the development of policy fields, focal points and legal foundations and present them in a meaningful way.
Graduates name the actors in the various policy fields (transport, energy, environment) and assign them to the appropriate policy areas.
Graduates describe the roles and responsibilities of the actors in the policy fields of transport, energy and environment by means of practical examples from the administration of one or more policy fields.
Graduates clearly classify the national, European and international dimensions of all policy fields.
Graduates explain the interdependencies between the policy fields in group discussions and feedback.
Graduates prepare and assess the challenges of the respective policy fields, their global interconnectedness and possible decision-making in these policy areas in a structured way.
Graduates describe and evaluate public management as a cross-sectional task and innovation as a driver in all policy fields.
Lecture, group work with discussion, work assignments with feedback
Continuous assessment: Immanent performance assessment (collaboration, quiz, homework)
Deutsch
Graduates apply the basic elements of controlling organizations and human behavior within the framework of their decision-making and action options.
Graduates apply principles and selected instruments of systemic strategy development.
Graduates organize themselves a support system with which they develop strategies.
Graduates know selected methods of strategic management and can apply them in practice.
Graduates make contributions to the medium-term (strategic) orientation of their organization (unit): alignment of the range of services and service provision, core competencies, make-or-buy decisions, and controlling by means of systemic holistic thinking.
Graduates take different diversity aspects into account in strategic decisions.
Graduates derive links between the individual incentive and motivation level and the systemic workings of public organizational structures.
Graduates understand the embedding of resource and performance management in the context of strategic public management and specifically in the control system of impact-oriented administrative management.
Graduates master the allocation of specific instruments of strategic controlling (strategic performance management, strategic resource and performance management) in the management cycle.
Graduates decode administrative backgrounds in the sense of a business and economic logic and, in connection therewith, appreciate the need for leadership competence for results-oriented network management.
Graduates recognize the forces of the omnipresent digital transformation as challenges and, in the context of different, interlinked megatrends,and develop their system potential.
Graduates know selected methods of strategic management and can apply them in practice.
Graduates contribute to the medium-term (strategic) orientation of their organization (unit), such as alignment of the range of services and service provision, core competencies, make-or-buy decisions, controlling by means of systemic holistic thinking.
In the context of their area of responsibility, graduates represent the interests and positions of strategic management in coordination with operational management tasks in the relevant management committees.
Graduates consider different diversity aspects in strategic decisions.
Graduates analyze organizational cultures and contribute to their development or change.
Graduates know the importance of the possibilities of digitization as a source of ideas.
Graduates are familiar with the various reforms and change approaches in the public sector and contribute to their implementation, such as innovation management and design.
Graduates formulate strategic principles of personnel management.
(1) Lecture with moderated discussions and practical examples
(2) Group work (practice-oriented case studies, discussions, presentations) in 2 semi-groups
(3) Supervised term papers on practice-oriented issues
(4) Evaluation and feedback on the written and oral cooperation review
Final exam: Immanent performance determination:
(1) Student contributions
(2) Oral participation, group work, case studies, discussions, presentations
(3) Written verification of cooperation
(4) Homework, study of literature
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Following an introduction to the topic, the course is divided into eight chapters and is structured as follows:
Introduction
"Fundamentals of Institutional Theory" (Chapter 1)
"New State Models" (Chapter 2)
"Organizational Change" (Chapter 3)
"Steering Models" (Chapter 4)
"Instruments and Methods" (Chapter 5)
Administrative Reform Kahoot 2020-2021
"Administrative Reform in Austria" (Chapter 6)
Semester Project 2020/2021 "Social Network Analysis" (Chapter 7)
"Guiding Ideas and Design Principles on the Austrian Development Path" (Chapter 8)
Graduates understand the importance of a broadly defined performance and functional field of public management, both in terms of content and methodology, which is dedicated to the general objective of systemic performance improvement of public organizational structures.
Graduates question and locate public organisational patterns, structures and cultures, recognise their systemic as well as individual motivations for control and further develop related mechanisms.
Graduates understand the control of an organizational structure, the binding of human, material and temporal resources, management of different performance levels in the organizational structure, flexibility of structures for new task combinations.
Graduates understand the output of an organisational structure and can apply accompanying monitoring and evaluate the results in the micro- and macro-economic area
Graduates recognize the importance of the main internal and external factors influencing the binding of human, material and time resources, with a special focus on the dynamic potential of digital change and its triggering of enormous change processes in public administration structures. In this context, they develop inputs for the management of different service levels in the organisational structure of public administration structures.
Lecture, individual work, group work, discussion and project presentation; networked thinking, active participation and the possibility of independent research (including new methods)
On the part of the course administration, in addition to classical lectures, discussion rounds are moderated at regular intervals, both in the context of classroom teaching and online. This requires preparatory independent work on topics (in combination with practical problems).
At the beginning of each course, a joint semester project is defined (knowledge bazaar, social network analysis, etc.). In the course of this, the students are trained in networked thinking. The fractional distillation of the contents is essential for understanding the subject matter. For the central topic areas, instead of the well-known "sieves of reduction", specially developed "networks of reduction" (core topic networking, structural knowledge framework) are applied, which determine the amount of content or the filling of information.
Based on a component-oriented design planning, the course follows the didactic logic in two dimensions: First, classical thematic structuring. Second, structured-methodical approach to the acquisition of the teaching material within the framework of a three-way strategy: a) the core topics are presented and enriched with applied examples; b) the students are continuously given tips on which methods can be used to work on topics as well as access to grey literature; c) the students are constantly encouraged to actively participate in class by means of requests to speak or prepared contributions.
In addition, ways are outlined which allow further independent work on the topic.
The course will be digitally enriched with different technical applications (Limesurvey, Kahoot, Mentimeter, Moodle, etc.) depending on the division between classroom and online teaching units. Depending on the current topic, guest speakers will be invited.
Continuous assessment: Written test
Performance in the attendance and preparation phases
Semester project; social network analysis
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Based on the acquisition of knowledge about typologies, graduates recognize the legal bases and special issues of spin-offs. They recognize the importance of applying a sustainable, holistic, multidimensional modern organizational management, and implement it in a goal-oriented manner.
Graduates know the meaning, effect and characteristics of corporate culture on organizations and project these onto their parent organization. They analyze, reflect and understand the interaction of corporate culture, leadership culture and error culture.
Graduates correctly assess the importance of public relations in the external image of organizations, use their most important tools accordingly, and learn to formulate core messages in such a way that they achieve the desired effects internally and externally on the basis of a resource-oriented communication plan.
Graduates know the basics and the most important elements, instruments and systems of quality management in public administration in general, and by using the CAF - Common Assessment Framework as a European quality management system for public administration in particular.
Graduates know the instruments necessary for the management and control of outsourced public institutions, are able to handle them, and recognize the weaknesses and strengths of such institutions. Furthermore, they can provide a basis for decisions on whether and how a spin-off should take place.
Graduates correctly assess the importance of public relations work for organizations, use their most important tools accordingly, and can formulate key messages in such a way that they achieve the desired effects internally and externally.
Graduates draw up a basic communication plan and analyze the differences in the media and communication landscape. Taking into account the available resources, they establish the context to their own organization accordingly.
Graduates outline stakeholder relations, create concepts for integration into the communication structure of the organization, and assess tools of crisis communication in a structured and competent manner in crisis situations.
Graduates understand the basics of public relations work, assess it professionally, correctly assess the various communication landscapes and media situations and position their own content accordingly.
Graduates know the most important legal framework conditions of public relations, design PR within the given possibilities and understand the different forms and possibilities of social media communication and independently write suitable texts for it.
Graduates generate a simple communication planning on their own, understand the different instruments for dealing with internal and external stakeholders and can involve external service providers in communication planning.
Graduates design press and information texts, know the requirements and needs of journalists, act accordingly and are familiar with various tools of crisis communication and communicate in a structured and targeted manner during a crisis.
Graduates know different tools for interview preparation, summarize contents/topics to core messages and reflect these in the interview. They reflect meaningfully on their own role with regard to public relations.
Inputs, individual and group work
Final exam: -Assignment with personal reflection on the course
-Active participation during the attendance blocks
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Graduates understand international and national rules and mechanisms of action in depth and implement them.
Graduates analyze how the general Sustainability Goals of the United Nations (SDGs) and the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights can be derived and applied to various concrete areas of public administration. They recognize the importance of ethical thinking and social competence for strategic and operational action.
Graduates evaluate and assess the connections between society and state, between legislation and administration in democracy and the resulting conclusions for everyday administrative activities based on theory.
Graduates know about the importance of civil society and participation and its European aspects, and can orientate their administrative actions accordingly.
Graduates understand the legal foundations, structures and history of social partnership in Austria and the EU.
Graduates understand organizational development and administrative reform in cooperation with social partnership as the basis for the further development of the public sector.
Graduates make decisions (in management functions) within the framework of service and staff representation law, and recognize the framework of service and staff representation law.
Graduates understand the history of social partnership in Austria and the EU and are able to act within the legal framework of social partnership.
Graduates understand social partnership as a solution model for problems facing society as a whole (sustainable merging of different interests).
Graduates understand the interfaces between politics and the public sector and the interactions between European and Austrian development in the public sector.
Graduates recognize the interaction between administrative reform and social partnership.
Graduates make decisions in management functions within the framework of service and salary law.
Lecture, group work, case handling
Continuous assessment: Immanent performance assessment, case handling, reflection, presentations
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- State and non-state actors in international cooperation
- Central forms of world order
- The importance and role of international organizations
- Influence and control of international policy fields by international NGOs, multinational corporations and interest groups
- Globalisation and Global Governance
- Digitization, new media, social networks in the context of international cooperation
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations
- The European Pillar of Social Rights
The aim is to create an interactive process that enables active participation and creative thinking.
Graduates recognize the importance of state and non-state actors and evaluate them.
Graduates understand the advantages and disadvantages of globalisation and its effects on other fields of public management.
Graduates understand and explain the development of global governance and the impact of digitalisation and new media on global issues and their solutions.
Graduates are familiar with the 17 sustainability goals of the United Nations and the 20 principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights and their application at national, regional and professional level.
Graduates analyze international crises, conflicts and their causes and develop possible solutions and leadership qualities.
Graduates argue and discuss their own opinions on specific international issues.
Graduates work out goals and topics of international development cooperation and derive the importance of ethical and solidarity-based action for concrete areas of life.
Graduates bring international and national developments into contact with other specific areas of public management, link them and think in a networked way.
The didactic concept is divided into lecture with discussion and feedback as well as group work with practical case studies and questions to develop possible solutions.
Furthermore, an interactive process is aimed at, which enables active cooperation and creative thinking to develop possible solutions.
Final exam: The assessment in the International Cooperation module is based on the development and subsequent presentation of case studies and a final exam in the form of a written paper.
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Graduates analyze and understand complex problems in dealing with risks at individual, organizational and governmental levels.
Graduates are able to select, propose and apply suitable concepts, models and measures for dealing with risks at individual, organizational and state levels in an advisory or active capacity.
Graduates apply the core elements of organizational management and their interrelationships - especially with quality and change management.
Graduates recognize the essential contribution quality management makes to sustainable, holistic, multidimensional and modern organizational management and development.
Graduates know the basics and the essential elements, instruments and systems of quality management in public administration.
Graduates master the basic principles of the CAF - Common Assessment Framework as a European quality management system for public administration.
Graduates competently take on the role of project principals from a management perspective.
Graduates operationalize and implement business and functional strategies in portfolios of measures and establish governance structures for projects, programs and portfolios in the public sector.
- Strategy operationalization
- Temporary organizational structures
- Roles and processes in project governance
- National and international regulations on the governance of projects, programmes and portfolios
- Strategic and operational project portfolio management
- Discontinuity Management
- Benefit Management
Graduates initiate projects and steer in the role of client, take them off and, if necessary, lead through crisis situations, manage project portfolios and secure the project benefits for the organization in the long term.
Graduates have basic knowledge of program management, are able to evaluate and prioritize proposed measures according to strategic criteria and to select task-adequate organizational forms.
Graduates align project portfolios with the strategy and coordinate them.
Graduates effectively design group processes for portfolio management.
Graduates evaluate the project and program orientation of an organization and develop it further.
Graduates understand project, program and portfolio management as a systematic method for strategy implementation and understand their connection to other management systems.
Graduates establish governance structures for projects, programmes and portfolios.
Flipped classroom, i.e. before each attendance block, independent acquisition of theoretical knowledge by means of literature and/or video sequences with a concluding online quiz; in the attendance blocks, application of the content in case studies, role plays and reflection rounds; between the blocks, transfer into the professional practice of the students and reflection on moodle.
Forum Questions to refresh the previous knowledge and preparatory literature
Online quiz (5 short questions without time limit)
Distance learning exercises
Preparatory reading
Online quizzes for self-checking
Preparation for the simulation game
Documentation and reflection of the simulation game as homework
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of individual project management
Knowledge in strategic management and strategic controlling
Continuous assessment: Online quizzes, case studies, participation in group exercises and discussions (present and on Moodle)
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"Managing the Organization & Managing Change"
- Core elements of organisational control
- Organizations in change - shaping "change" with organizational development and change management
- Successful steering and management of quality in public administration (based on practical examples)
"Managing quality."
- Quality & Quality Management in Public Administration
- Overview of quality management models in public administration (ISO, EFQM, CAF)
- Quality management as an integral part of organizational control (in cooperation with e.g. complaint management, knowledge management, process management, risk management)
"CAF - The Quality Management System for Public Administration":
- Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
Graduates know the core elements of organizational management and their interrelationships, especially with quality and change management, and have a deeper basic understanding of quality and quality management.
Graduates know the most essential elements of quality management in public administration.
Graduates understand the CAF - Common Assessment Framework - as a quality management system for public administration in its basic principles and can also apply it independently.
Graduates recognize and understand quality management as a sustainable, holistic and multidimensional form of organizational development and management.
Graduates support the optimisation efforts in the working environment and help shape them.
Lecture with activating methods, discussion, group work, practical exercises, distance learning forms
Final exam: Immanent assessment of performance: written examination, written paper, presentation
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Graduates conduct research in scientific digital databases and apply methods of qualitative and quantitative social research in their own research.
Graduates formulate research-relevant questions from the profession-specific area.
Graduates create empirical research designs, collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data and critically question them.
Graduates interpret, assess and evaluate the results of research and evaluation studies and apply the analytical methods appropriate for fact-based decision-making.
Graduates apply scientific and analytical skills for the accompanying reflection of professional practice.
- Qualitative data collection, preparation and evaluation: perspective, method overview, theory connection
- Interpretative-constructivist paradigm - specific theoretical approaches in qualitative research
- Focus on expert interviews: Exercise/role play, reflection in plenary
- Deepening the two research strategies (positivism and interpretivism; quantitative and qualitative): differences in epistemology, research planning and process, methods and epistemological goals, quality criteria
- Investigation designs - Assessment of designs
- Development of a research guiding question
- "Fit" of research question, theoretical perspective, research design and methods
- Research Planning and Research Process, Exposé.
Graduates explain different research paradigms and evaluate them critically.
Graduates develop coherent research designs, including research questions and reasoned choices of theories and methods.
Graduates apply their in-depth knowledge of qualitative data collection and evaluation methods to concrete cases.
Graduates can realistically plan their own research project.
Graduates assess research designs on the basis of defined quality criteria as well as the relevance of the scientific knowledge objectives for their own professional practice.
The combination of different teaching methods - lecture and distance learning, self-study, practical exercises based on individual and group work, role-play, discussion, written reflection and feedback from peers and teachers - allows for a diverse transfer of knowledge and skills on the one hand and takes into account different learning types among students on the other. By means of practical applications, students are challenged in this exercise to acquire new competences and to reflect on them in connection with the contents of other courses. The selected working materials and research examples provide a reference to the central topics of the course as well as current focal points such as SDGs and digitization.
Continuous assessment: The acquisition of the above-mentioned competences is checked within the framework of the immanent performance assessment on the basis of the following partial performances:
(1) Group work: qualitative evaluation of interview transcripts
(2) Empirical studies (qualitative and quantitative) will be made available, which will be analysed and compared in several steps
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Graduates apply data governance concepts and determine methods and data sources.
Graduates understand the basics of digital transformation, apply new methods for digital transformation and accompany digital innovations.
Graduates know the essential cornerstones of the Austrian eGovernment strategy and the current or upcoming (mainly legally induced) developments in this area, and have the ability to map eGovernment requirements with administrative practice.
Basis Governance
Fundamentals of Data Governance / Management / Data Curation / Data Litracy
Graduates explain important data governance terms and concepts and apply them.
Graduates know important data sources and formats and apply methods to determine the data sources.
Lecture, exercises
Continuous assessment: Immanent examination character
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Graduates know and understand the basic concepts, actors and legal framework of state crises and disaster management.
Graduates evaluate and assess the role and tasks of the state and the ministries in the event of crises and disasters.
Graduates are familiar with national and international organizations and the possibilities of disaster management.
Graduates understand communication strategies in crisis situations and can explain the mechanisms of international conflict resolution.
Graduates experience and understand state crisis and disaster management and reflect on processes and decisions using examples.
Graduates are familiar with the interdepartmental state crisis and disaster management (SKKM) and its coordination within the SKKM Penta++.
Graduates understand and reflect on the actions of international organizations using the example of the Strategic Plan of OCHA and the Civil Protection Mechanism of the European Union.
Graduates assess facts and situations on the basis of the legal framework in the event of a crisis or disaster and design communication strategies.
Lecture, group work, case handling
Final exam: Final examination, case work, homework, written reflection
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Graduates know the basic principles of management in public enterprises and in the federal administration as well as the necessary instruments.
Graduates further develop the quality of management using these instruments and evaluate them.
Graduates understand the legal basis and the responsibilities within the Confederation (starting with the Federal Constitution up to the current ordinances), and are able to understand the controlling processes using the budget cycle of the public budget.
Graduates apply legal principles, possibilities and differences in the presentation of financial information of the federal, state and local governments and their spin-off units, and understand fundamental questions and challenges of consolidation.
Repetition Basics
Controlling Instruments
Legal basis
Federal controlling - repetition of the budget cycle
Targets & Key Figures
Objectives of impact on the example of the Court of Auditors
Impact orientation
The Impact Assessment tool
Break-Even-Analysis & DB Calculation
Investment calculation (KW method)
Preparation of profit and loss statement, balance sheet and operating figures; cash flow statement/CF statement
Balance sheet analysis, preparation and interpretation of key figures
Graduates know the differences between normative, strategic and operational management, and understand the functions of controlling in the respective areas.
Graduates distinguish the basics and functions of operational controlling from the strategic instruments. They know the essential instruments, starting with cost accounting and ending with the balanced scorecard, and will be able to explain the differentiation from accounting in a comprehensible way.
Graduates apply federal budget controlling, including impact-oriented impact assessment, in their area of public administration and follow up on them.
Graduates know the connections between strategy, goals and controlling and understand the necessity and the possibilities of controlling in their professional environment of public administration.
Graduates know the core processes in controlling and can explain the control cycle of operative controlling; they can explain the central corporate goals (liquidity, success and success potential) and describe the system of integrated budgeting.
Graduates explain the basic structure of the budgeting process and apply essential instruments of revenue and cost planning. They describe the procedures and types in Investment Controlling, and specifically calculate and interpret the net present value method.
Graduates assess the company's performance with the help of key figures, find and evaluate area-specific key figures and prepare a cash flow statement (CF statement).
Lecture/presentation, group work, discussion, feedback
Work assignments with feedback, group exercises, case work and case solutions, practical exercises
Blended learning distance learning and face-to-face teaching
Final exam: Immanent performance assessment through group work, presentations and written work / exercises as well as discussion of the case studies
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Importance of strategic management and innovation management
Tools and methods of strategic controlling
Guarantee state v. performance state
Characteristics of public undertakings
Management in the Federal Administration and management of public enterprises
Public corporate governance
Core elements of impact-oriented management control and linking these to higher-level strategies (e.g. the Sustainable Development Goals)
Graduates describe the procedure in strategic controlling and use selected tools in their own working environment.
Graduates recognize the connection between the strategic and operational levels and can derive operational measures from strategic goals.
Graduates evaluate and develop the quality of impact targets and key figures.
Based on higher-level strategies, graduates have a comprehensive understanding of target cascades and the organization's dependence on them.
Graduates implement core elements of impact orientation in organizations.
Graduates assess the quality of the implementation process of an impact-oriented management model.
Graduates name and apply the contents of the Federal Public Corporate Governance Code.
Graduates delimit the challenges that arise in the management of public enterprises in comparison to the federal administration.
Lecture, discussion, feedback, group work, case solutions, practical exercises, linking theory to students' work experience and knowledge
Final exam: Performance behavior: Observed on the basis of active participation during the lecture units (40%)
Performance result: Judged by the results of the student's own learning transfer (written reflection). Written examination on the contents taught during the last teaching unit (60%)
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Graduates have profound theoretical knowledge of the specific realities in the policy fields of education, science and culture as well as an overview of the actors and the legal foundations of the policy fields.
Graduates describe and evaluate the various governance and organizational challenges that apply to these policy areas.
Graduates recognize public management as a cross-cutting task in various departments/policy fields and understand the cross-cutting demands of the individual policy fields (horizontal policy integration).
Graduates analyze structures of public administration and structural changes in administrative action.
Graduates introduce innovative approaches to administrative action and support such approaches.
Graduates develop innovative models in the fields of education, science and culture.
Based on the knowledge and skills acquired in the seminar, graduates develop innovative models for schools, adult education, universities, art and culture in an exemplary manner.
Graduates present solutions for the practical application of innovative approaches and/or the introduction/adaptation of participatory decision-making in the administration.
Impulse presentations to introduce the tasks and small group work
Continuous assessment: Project work in small groups; written and verbal presentation of the results in the plenum
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Graduates have a profound theoretical knowledge of the specific realities and an overview of the actors and legal bases in the policy fields of health and social affairs, and are familiar with their various governance and organizational challenges.
Graduates recognize public management as a cross-cutting task in various fields/policy areas, and have an overview of social and health care systems compared across Europe.
Graduates understand the cross-sectional demands of the individual policy fields (horizontal policy integration).
Graduates apply the sustainability goals 2030 in the context of the policy fields and in their working environment, and evaluate and accompany current developments of digitization in the policy fields.
After visiting some social and health facilities, graduates evaluate the applicability to their own field of work.
Graduates evaluate and analyze inclusion and diversity models in a European comparison and for Austria.
Graduates evaluate the sustainability goals 2030 on the basis of practical examples nationally and globally and develop practical examples of social entrepreneurship.
Graduates compare and analyse crisis management and the effects of pandemics.
Group work, discussion, feedback, lecture with activating methods, work assignments with feedback, group exercises, peer feedback, case solutions, practical exercises, problem-based learning, online courses, excursion, circular questioning.
Continuous assessment: Immanent performance assessment (presentation, written work, case work, oral examination, reflection report, group work, cooperation, project work.
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Graduates have a profound theoretical knowledge of the specific realities of security and justice policy, and have an overview of the actors and legal foundations in these policy areas.
Graduates compare innovation concepts in the policy fields of security and justice in terms of opportunity and risk, assess problems and approaches to solutions, and develop their own proposals for solving current or fictitious problems, either individually or in a team.
Graduates know the various governance and organizational challenges that apply to these policy areas.
Graduates recognize public management as a cross-cutting task in various departments/policy fields and understand the cross-cutting demands of the individual policy fields (horizontal policy integration).
Graduates recognize and explain interdisciplinary aspects and principles of systems, understand complex interrelationships, assess skills and factors of resilience, and apply the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development in the context of the policy fields of security and justice.
Graduates apply the basics of systems thinking and resilience.
Graduates distinguish between and apply variants of future design in the nexus of security and justice (foresight, scenario technique, participatory modelling).
Graduates develop integrative and cooperative solutions to concrete problems in the fields of security and justice.
Lecture, group work, discussion, work assignments with feedback, group exercises, case solutions, practical exercises, problem-based learning
Continuous assessment: Immanent leadership review, (presentation, written work, case work, homework, reflection report)
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Graduates have a profound theoretical knowledge of the specific realities of the policy fields of transport, energy and environment, as well as an overview of the actors and the legal basis of the policy fields.
Graduates know the various governance and organizational challenges that apply to these policy areas.
Graduates recognize public management as a cross-cutting task in various departments/policy fields and understand the cross-sectional demands of the individual policy fields (horizontal policy integration).
Graduates develop innovative and solution-oriented concepts for the implementation and management of the respective policy field-specific instruments in the strategic area.
Graduates also include the European and international level in their considerations and decisions and identify potential solutions.
Graduates have a profound knowledge in the fields of transport, energy and environment, spanning all policy fields.
Graduates will apply solutions for the practical application of innovative approaches and/or introduction/adaptation of participatory decision-making in the administration.
Graduates take the European and international context into account when dealing with issues from the policy fields.
Graduates recognize challenges of practice-oriented implementation and decision-making processes and assess them correctly.
Graduates develop solutions that are applied in the public sector.
Lecture with activating methods, work assignments with feedback, group exercises, peer feedback, case solutions
Individual feedback on the homework (deepening the learning outcomes from the first semester
Field trips
Continuous assessment: Immanent benefit assessment (cooperation, case processing and presentation)
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Graduates apply data governance concepts and determine methods and data sources.
Graduates understand the basics of digital transformation, apply new methods for digital transformation and accompany digital innovations.
Graduates know the essential cornerstones of the Austrian eGovernment strategy and the current or upcoming (mainly legally induced) developments in this area, and have the ability to map eGovernment requirements with administrative practice.
Fundamentals of digital transformation
Analogous to digital and the challenges
Selected examples
Driving autonomously
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
Digital ecosystems
Challenges and limitations
Graduates describe the digital transformation, assess it and show its limits.
Graduates apply new methods for digital transformation.
Lecture/presentation, discussion
Continuous assessment: Intrinsic performance measurement
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Graduates describe and evaluate the digital strategy of the European Union.
Graduates describe and evaluate the interrelationships and also the nomenclature of the Austrian e-government architecture and its implementation at federal, provincial and municipal level.
Graduates describe and evaluate the basic procedures for the implementation of electronic procedures in the administration.
Graduates describe and evaluate important sources of regulations and information on e-government.
Lecture, individual work, group work, case work, discussions
Final exam: Presentation, presentation document, written homework, reflection and feedback
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Graduates know and understand the basic concepts, actors and legal framework of state crises and disaster management.
Graduates evaluate and assess the role and tasks of the state and the ministries in the event of crises and disasters.
Graduates are familiar with national and international organizations and the possibilities of disaster management.
Graduates understand communication strategies in crisis situations and can explain the mechanisms of international conflict resolution.
Graduates apply the basics of international governmental crisis and disaster management in practical cases.
Graduates know the actors and the legal basis for interdepartmental cooperation in state crisis and disaster management.
Graduates take on different roles in interdepartmental cooperation.
Lecture, individual work, group work, discussion and case work
Continuous assessment: Immanent performance review, case handling, homework, concept development
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Graduates know the basic principles of management in public enterprises and in the federal administration as well as the necessary instruments.
Graduates further develop the quality of management using these instruments and evaluate them.
Graduates understand the legal basis and the responsibilities within the Confederation (starting with the Federal Constitution up to the current ordinances), and are able to understand the controlling processes using the budget cycle of the public budget.
Graduates apply legal principles, possibilities and differences in the presentation of financial information of the federal, state and local governments and their spin-off units, and understand fundamental questions and challenges of consolidation.
Graduates read and interpret annual financial statements, for example in the context of supervisory board functions in outsourced companies.
Graduates assess issues from a budgetary and financial policy perspective.
Graduates hold management positions in the public sector and have a basic understanding of the system of public budgeting, the importance of financial sustainability and the legitimacy function of public units in dealing with public funds.
Lecture with activating methods, group work during the presence phase, discussion, individual work and group work as homework, feedback
Final exam: Written elaborations, group work during the attendance phase, course-immanent performance determination or consideration of the cooperation
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Graduates understand leadership as a central factor for the management of service delivery in organizations, and can apply this understanding to leadership tasks.
Graduates understand leadership as a balancing act and as dealing with contradictions, and have the knowledge and prerequisites to implement this in a context-related way.
Graduates have the tools to handle leadership as a process between managers and employees.
Graduates name the new challenges for management, reflect on the background to these changes, and approach these developments proactively with suitable tools.
Graduates recognize that the professional profile of managers is changing rapidly and massively, and apply suitable instruments for their own everyday management.
Graduates design sustainable learning and development architectures for individuals and teams, and know the potential and possibilities of digital media to support this task.
Graduates initiate and support organizational development processes by means of personnel development.
Graduates create personnel development concepts for different contextual and organizational requirements.
Graduates develop implementation architectures for personnel development concepts.
Graduates assume the functional radius and responsibilities of a manager.
Graduates develop models that enable individuals, teams and the organization to learn ('development').
Graduates design projects as management charts and defend them.
Lecture, group work, discussion, feedback, problem and solution based learning
Linking theory to the students' work experience and knowledge, further development of competences in the field of concepts and methods of human resources development
Reflection of the learning transfer processes to intensify the results from the course
Continuous assessment: -Performance behavior: In the course, distance learning and written work observed on the responsibility of the individual in terms of taking responsibility for their own learning process and the fulfilment of the requirements. Delivery: Lessons Learned, 3 pages.
-Performance result: Delivery of a management chart on the agreed topic.
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Graduates understand leadership as a central factor for the management of service delivery in organisations and can apply this understanding to leadership work.
Graduates have a basic understanding of psychosocial processes in organizations and their influence and can use this in their leadership behavior.
Graduates understand conflict management as a central management task and are able to perform it effectively.
Graduates understand leadership as a balancing act and as dealing with contradictions and have the prerequisites to implement this in a contextual way.
In their role as employees (intermediate superiors), graduates shape relations with their superiors in a productive manner.
Graduates have the tools to handle leadership as a process between managers and employees.
Graduates have dealt with forms of bad leadership and have the tools to avoid serious mistakes in leadership work.
Lectures, discussion, group work, reflection on your own professional practice, practical exercises
Final exam: Immanent performance assessment (accomplishment of written tasks, reflection reports, presentations)
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Graduates will recognize and understand the developments and challenges VUCA World poses to leadership skills and reflect on the topic of leadership in volatile, complex, contradictory contexts based on systemic thinking.
Graduates know the practice of agile organizations and their principles and framework conditions.
Graduates apply selected tools - such as Design Thinking, Scrum, Kanban, Experiential Learning, Lego® Serious Play®.
Graduates design transformation processes in their own organization for more professionalism and act in complex contexts.
Graduates have an awareness of the advantages and benefits of interdisciplinary work and new work.
Graduates have the ability to use role and perspective changes as a management tool.
Graduates use digital tools for collaboration and creative solution development as a supplement to video conferencing in their own environment. They reflect on the benefits and dynamics of virtual collaboration tools.
Lecture, group work, discussions, work assignments in practice (in your own organization) with reflection and feedback, group exercises, presentations.
Final exam: Conducting a "Jam Session" with your own team in your own organization using the tools you have learned This includes asking the right questions, choosing the right tools and presenting the results. The reflection after the "Jam Session" should be a structured report, this includes the process and reflection on the personal experiences with the application of the tools.
Students without leadership responsibility/team additionally create a seminar paper/reflection after literature research and processing of technical literature and present the results in the course.
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Graduates act within the functional radius and with the responsibility of a manager.
Graduates derive characteristics of moral decisions, and apply them in leadership contexts and decision-making.
Graduates know the essential management tasks and have the necessary tools for practical implementation.
Graduates recognize the tension between process control and human leadership, and derive learning fields for the organization and the employees therefrom.
Graduates know the factors for employee satisfaction and are able to positively influence them as managers.
Graduates agree on goals with female employees and conduct effective team and employee discussions.
Graduates analyze complex team and leadership situations according to the interdependence of behavior.
Graduates independently apply methods of teamwork and leadership in their everyday work.
Graduates involve female employees in the development and ongoing maintenance of the goals, tasks and success criteria of the organization (unit), oriented towards sustainability and the common good.
Graduates derive the characteristics of moral decisions and analyze decision-making processes according to their moral implications.
Graduates reflect, recognize the level of their own moral awareness, recognize their own fields of development and can promote moral decision-making processes in others
Graduates apply instruments of corruption prevention and anti-corruption.
Graduates recognize the special importance of ethical behavior for managers and consciously accept their responsibility.
Graduates have analytical competence, can analyze circumstances according to professional and ethical criteria and can make the necessary decisions and actions
Statements and impulse presentations, individual work, group work, discussion and dilemma discussions, work assignments with feedback, group exercises, peer feedback, case work, practical exercises, problem-based dialogical learning processes, role plays with subsequent evaluation and transfer/reflection phase, online course if required
Continuous assessment: Immanent performance assessment: case work
Permanent learning success control through project participation, active collaboration and co-design.
Two written assignments (reflection of own experience; case work); presentation of results in the course
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Graduates recognize group dynamic processes and combine these with change processes.
Graduates analyze the efficiency of their own institution in relation to IT-supported processes.
Graduates understand and analyze organizational processes and change processes, and recognise their effects on the relevant environments.
Graduates test their knowledge of organizational and process analysis, group dynamics and their impact on change processes in real change cases in practice, and apply it.
Graduates analyze transformation processes (especially digital transformation processes) from the perspective of human resources management and drive them forward.
Graduates support change processes through personnel management processes (increasing digital skills).
Graduates shape transformation processes through leadership in the organization from the future onwards, and thus contribute to a social and digital development oriented towards the common good and SDGs.
Depending on the case to be dealt with, students will deal with diverse topics related to organisations in terms of content.
They analyze the effects of changes on several levels of coordination, from different perspectives.
As an interconnected subject, case analysis offers the opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge from other corresponding courses in practical applications.
Graduates deal with organizational change, apply their knowledge in practical case studies and are able to classify and consider organizational and interpersonal insights when implementing change in organizations.
Graduates adopt different perspectives in change processes, recognize and process change processes multidimensionally and understand their modes of action.
Graduates have developed an understanding of organizational structures and processes, understand the interconnections and interrelationships of decisions and their effects on the protagonists, and develop an understanding of the need for action and decisions in complex situations.
Elements of business games
Case work
Plenary discussion
Feedback rounds
Final exam: Joint case solution in the form of a management summary and/or project result.
Individual reflection
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Graduates know theory and practice of human resource management in the public sector, also in comparison to the profit and non-profit sector.
Graduates know the theory and practice of personnel management and work out the requirements profile to be expected for digital administration.
Graduates pilot a digital transformation project and apply their theoretical and conceptual knowledge.
Input, group work, discussion, feedback, group exercises, peer feedback, case solutions, practical exercises, problem and solution based learning
Final exam: Creation of a case study on a selected topic in the area of transformation and human resources
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Graduates explain the importance of fundamental and human rights for public administration.
Graduates apply human rights norms to specific cases in public administration.
Graduates critically discuss the conditions of the implementation of fundamental and human rights.
Graduates compare and analyse the EU decision-making process and inter-institutional practice at EU-level, and the development and implementation of EU-policies on the basis of concrete cases.
Joint fine tuning of the teaching content:
Contents:
Focus:
Practical case studies:
Graduates explain the EU will formation process.
Graduates will distinguish and analyze interinstitutional practice at EU level, including EU agencies.
Graduates compare the development of EU policies (especially those with relevance to fundamental rights) and present their implementation.
Final exam: Oral examination, dates after announcement/agreement
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Graduates explain the significance of fundamental and human rights as objectives and guiding principles for public administration.
Graduates explain the national and international dimensions of human rights standards and distinguish between them.
Graduates solve concrete cases from the public administration by applying human rights norms.
Graduates critically assess the potential and limitations of applying fundamental and human rights to their own practice.
Graduates identify the legal, political, economic, social and organizational challenges in the implementation of fundamental and human rights.
Lecture and discussion, case solutions, practical exercises, group work, problem-based learning
Final exam: Writing a reflection paper at the end of the course
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Graduates consciously apply techniques of researching digital scientific databases as well as scientific writing and argumentation.
Graduates develop research designs and design an independent research process using quantitative and/or qualitative survey and evaluation methods.
Graduates interpret, assess and evaluate the results of research and evaluation studies and apply the analytical methods appropriate for fact-based decision-making.
Graduates interpret their own research results in a reflective manner with a view to the current state of research, and present their findings in text and images in an adequate way for different target groups.
Graduates write a scientific paper that meets the methodological, content and formal standards.
Graduates research scientific literature in order to discuss the state of research for their own empirical investigation in writing.
Graduates develop an independent scientific argumentation.
Graduates distinguish between descriptive and critical as well as analytical writing and are able to apply it in a targeted manner.
Graduates develop their own research design and research plan.
Graduates interpret the results of quantitative and qualitative research and draw conclusions from them.
The combination of different teaching methods - lecture and distance learning, self-study, practical exercises based on individual and group work, discussion and feedback from peers and teachers - enables a diverse transfer of knowledge and skills on the one hand and takes into account different learning types among students on the other. By means of practical applications, students are challenged in this exercise to acquire new competences and to reflect on them in connection with the contents of other courses. The selected working materials and research examples provide a reference to the central topics of the course as well as current focal points such as SDGs and digitization.
Continuous assessment: The acquisition of the above-mentioned competences will be checked in the course of the immanent performance assessment by means of several written submissions in preparation for the master thesis, e.g. exemplary discussion of a scientific argument, chapter "state of research", and proposal.
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Graduates understand leadership as a central factor for the management of service delivery in organizations, and can apply this understanding to leadership tasks.
Graduates understand leadership as a balancing act and as dealing with contradictions, and have the knowledge and prerequisites to implement this in a context-related way.
Graduates have the tools to handle leadership as a process between managers and employees.
Graduates name the new challenges for management, reflect on the background to these changes, and approach these developments proactively with suitable tools.
Graduates recognize that the professional profile of managers is changing rapidly and massively, and apply suitable instruments for their own everyday management.
Graduates design sustainable learning and development architectures for individuals and teams, and know the potential and possibilities of digital media to support this task.
Graduates initiate and support organizational development processes by means of personnel development.
Graduates create personnel development concepts for different contextual and organizational requirements.
Graduates develop implementation architectures for personnel development concepts.
Graduates understand the differences between various personnel management processes and implement personnel management within the framework of traditional development processes at the interface between personnel and organization and personnel management within the framework of organizational change processes (especially processes of digitization).
Graduates know different inventories for strategic planning processes and apply them.
Graduates reflect on their own and also general future-relevant fields of action in organizations.
Final exam: Performance result assessed by the result assurance of the own learning transfer (Instructions for Strategic Change worked out on a workplace-relevant example) by handing in the examination task.
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Graduates act within the functional radius and with the responsibility of a manager.
Graduates derive characteristics of moral decisions, and apply them in leadership contexts and decision-making.
Graduates know the essential management tasks and have the necessary tools for practical implementation.
Graduates recognize the tension between process control and human leadership, and derive learning fields for the organization and the employees therefrom.
Graduates know the factors for employee satisfaction and are able to positively influence them as managers.
Graduates agree on goals with female employees and conduct effective team and employee discussions.
Graduates analyze complex team and leadership situations according to the interdependence of behavior.
Graduates independently apply methods of teamwork and leadership in their everyday work.
Graduates describe and evaluate the essential management tasks and have the necessary tools and methods for practical implementation.
Graduates integrate the polarity of process control and human leadership into their own understanding of leadership and derive individual learning fields from this.
Graduates describe and evaluate the concept "House of Work Ability" and derive competences from it for both managers and employees.
Graduates know about what drives and motivates people.
Graduates do not see performance and employee satisfaction as contradictory, but as mutually dependent factors.
Graduates conduct employee appraisals effectively.
Graduates describe and evaluate the factors for employee satisfaction and are able to positively influence them as managers.
Graduates adapt general theoretical management approaches to the framework conditions of the respective organization.
Lectures, discussion, group work, reflection on your own professional practice, practical exercises
Continuous assessment: Immanent performance assessment (completion of written tasks, reflection reports, presentations)
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Graduates use their powers of observation and reflection in a structured manner in collegial counselling situations.
Graduates take the views of other people (groups), understand them and objectively compare them with their own views.
Graduates analyze complex team and leadership situations according to the interdependence of behavior.
Graduates are capable of making decisions and acting under conditions of ambiguity and uncertainty.
Graduates independently apply methods of teamwork and leadership in their everyday work.
Graduates are familiar with different methods of group supervision/intervision and arrange for their use when required.
Continuous assessment: Written elaboration of a case from everyday professional life on the basis of a grid of questions provided
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Graduates recognize group dynamic processes and combine these with change processes.
Graduates analyze the efficiency of their own institution in relation to IT-supported processes.
Graduates understand and analyze organizational processes and change processes, and recognise their effects on the relevant environments.
Graduates test their knowledge of organizational and process analysis, group dynamics and their impact on change processes in real change cases in practice, and apply it.
Graduates analyze transformation processes (especially digital transformation processes) from the perspective of human resources management and drive them forward.
Graduates support change processes through personnel management processes (increasing digital skills).
Graduates shape transformation processes through leadership in the organization from the future onwards, and thus contribute to a social and digital development oriented towards the common good and SDGs.
Group dynamics
Organisational development
Digitalisation
Graduates transfer group dynamic processes to change processes.
Graduates represent processes in the workflow, structure them and derive from them points of contact for IT-supported work.
Graduates name the opportunities and limits of digitization.
Graduates replicate an introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Graduates apply the acquired points in their own working environment within the framework of a structural analysis.
Lecture, group work, peer feedback, exercises, problem-based learning
Continuous assessment: Case study of the own institution and its processes.
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Management concept
Leading from the future
Anticipation and transformation
Methods of decision making
Decision-making processes in teams and organizations
Public welfare orientation
Basic and human rights
SDGs
Futures and trends
Creativity, networked and dialogical thinking and learning
Graduates analyze and transfer international best practice examples of future-oriented action and leadership for digitization strategies in the public sector and for their own field of work.
Graduates act on the basis of the legal framework, taking into account overriding basic principles such as human, basic and civil rights, SDGs and orientation towards the common good.
Graduates apply the skills they have acquired so far in networked contexts in case studies and base their decisions on public welfare orientation, SDGs and anticipating the future.
Short lectures, individual work, group work, discussions and dilemma debates, written reflection
Continuous assessment: Case handling, concept development, presentations, homework
Deutsch-Englisch
Graduates consciously apply techniques of researching digital scientific databases as well as scientific writing and argumentation.
Graduates develop research designs and design an independent research process using quantitative and/or qualitative survey and evaluation methods.
Graduates interpret, assess and evaluate the results of research and evaluation studies and apply the analytical methods appropriate for fact-based decision-making.
Graduates interpret their own research results in a reflective manner with a view to the current state of research, and present their findings in text and images in an adequate way for different target groups.
Graduates write a scientific paper that meets the methodological, content and formal standards.
Graduates integrate the research skills acquired in the previous semesters in the process of writing the master thesis.
Graduates carry out independent research using quantitative and/or qualitative methods of collection and evaluation and in doing so observe the scientific quality criteria as well as the requirements of data protection and research ethics.
Graduates design research processes independently and consciously apply techniques of scientific work and scientific quality control (e.g. peer review, feedback, argumentation development, and software).
Graduates interpret their own research results in the context of the current state of scientific discussion in empirical and theoretical terms.
Graduates write and visualize research results, findings and the recommendations for action derived from them in a target group-oriented manner.
Graduates critically reflect on their own results with regard to scientific quality criteria as well as with regard to meaningfulness, range and transferability.
Teacher input; teaching videos; short presentations by students with peer feedback; group work (methods workshop, writing workshop; exercises in text design and visualisation of data); reading; written assignments with feedback
Continuous assessment: Immanent assessment: Submission of a methods paper or the methods chapter of the master thesis (draft), presentation of the current status of the work based on an annotated table of contents and submission of the written documents
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Graduates assess the methodological quality of research in terms of qualitative and quantitative data collection and data evaluation methods and strategies.
Graduates competently apply selected qualitative and quantitative data collection and data evaluation methods.
Graduates maintain high quality in their research work and deal with differences between quality expectations of planned users or target communities.
Graduates understand epistemological, ontological and practical implications of the choice of method for their own research and defend the choice of method.
Graduates assess the consistency of research designs in terms of theoretical, methodological and methodological decisions.
Graduates use methods as an instrument for constructing reality.
Graduates effectively and eqitably involve different stakeholders of the investigated problem in different phases of research and help to design and accompany a "Community of Inquiry".
Graduates resist the pressure of technical rationality.
Graduates institutionalize the principles of science (such as peer review) in their own working contexts and are given spaces for deliberation and reflection.
Graduates use terms correctly and consciously and reflect on the effects of newly introduced terms and categories (typologies, scales, levels, and metaphors).
Graduates interpret, write and visualize the collected data independently and with high quality and reflectiveness.
Graduates present and defend their own research in an appropriate manner, also to non-scientific audiences.
Graduates situate their own scientific results in the diversity of knowledge forms and "accounts" around a problem.
Graduates support the implementation of the recommendations from their own research.
Graduates apply scientific competence for the respective reporting in the organization.
Final exam: Submission of master thesis
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Graduates present and defend their own research results and reflect on the quality of research processes.
Graduates create a scientific poster to present scientific work and research results.
Graduates prepare an executive summary after completing their scientific work.
Graduates interpret, write and visualise the collected data independently and with high quality and reflectiveness.
Graduates present and defend their own research in an appropriate manner, vis-à-vis experts, and in examination situations also vis-à-vis non-scientific audiences.
Graduates answer questions on their own research and related topics as well as on all relevant problems and tasks in the context of public management.
Thesis defense, examination interview
Final exam: Master exam
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Number of teaching weeks
9 per semester
Times
Usually every two weeks, in blocks, Fri. and Sat., 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and once a month on Thursday, 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
As a graduate of this program, a wide range of occupational fields and career opportunities are open to you. Find out here where your path can take you.
The degree program enhances your career opportunities in the public sector and prepares you for future management responsibilities. You will be qualified to manage projects or organizational units, as the senior expert to prepare political decisions or, as a specialist expert, to participate in or manage the structuring and control of complex change processes. You are comfortable with developing new management concepts and methods and to further professionalize performance processes of organizational units by, for instance, specifying activities and optimally assessing an organization's qualitative effectiveness.
The master improves your professional opportunities and prepares you for a career as a specialist or manager in the public sector. In addition to public institutions, this job market with a future includes around 8,000 public companies. As a graduate, you are qualified to lead projects or organizational units, to prepare politically relevant decisions as a senior expert, or to help shape and steer complex change processes as a specialist. You will be able to develop innovative management concepts and methods and to further professionalize performance processes of the organizational unit, for example by determining types of performance and optimally measuring the impact quality of an organization. You will be able to take on responsible challenges in human resources management, finance and budgeting, controlling and quality management.
We work closely with the BMKÖS and the BMI, renowned companies in the public sector, universities, institutions and schools, but also municipalities. These partnerships provide you with opportunities for professional internships, job opportunities or cooperation in research and development activities. You can find some of our cooperations on the Campus Network website. It is always worth taking a look and you might find a new job or an interesting event with one of our cooperation partners.
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Head of Master's Degree Program Public Management; Head of Research Center Administrative Sciences
+43 1 606 68 77-3831
alfred.hoedl@hcw.ac.at
Favoritenstraße 226, A.2.20
1100 Vienna
+43 1 606 68 77-3800
publicmanagement@hcw.ac.at
Office hours during the semester
Tue to Thu, 9.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m.
Fri, 7.30 a.m.-2.00 p.m.
Sat, 7.30 a.m.-1.00 p.m.
Office hours during holidays
Only by appointment.
Senior Lecturer
julia.dahlvik@hcw.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-3817
Senior Lecturer; Works Council
natalia.hartmann@hcw.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-3813
Head of Bachelor's Degree Program Public Management
guenter.horniak@hcw.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-3810
Introduction to the program (mandatory)
Thursday, September 3, 2026
1.00 pm - 2.30 pm
1st course weekend
Thursday, September 3, 2026
4.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Friday, September 4, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, September 5, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 100 pm - 5.15 pm
2nd course weekend
Friday, September 18, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, September 19, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.00 pm - 5.15 pm
3rd course weekend
Thursday, October 1, 2026
4.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Friday, September 2, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, September 3, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.00 pm - 5.15 pm
4th course weekend
Friday, October 16, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, October 17, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.00 pm - 5.15 pm
5th course weekend
Thursday, October 29, 2026
4.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Friday, October 30, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
6th course weekend
Friday, November 13, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, November 14, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.00 pm - 5.15 pm
7th teaching weekend
Friday, November 27, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, November 28, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.00 pm - 5.15 pm
8th teaching weekend
Thursday, December 10, 2026
4.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Friday, December 11, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, December 12, 2026
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.00 pm - 5.15 pm
9th teaching weekend
Friday, January 8, 2027
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, January 9, 2027
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.00 pm - 5.15 pm
10th course weekend
Thursday, January 21, 2027
4.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Friday, January 22, 2027
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, January 23, 2027
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.00 pm - 5.15 pm
11th course weekend
Friday, January 29, 2027
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.15 pm - 5.30 pm
Saturday, January 30, 2027
8.00 am - 12.15 pm & 1.00 pm - 5.15 pm
Second exam dates for lectures:
February 11, 2027 & March 11, 2027
Additional exams:
October 22, 2026
The additional exams are only for students who did NOT complete the bachelor's program in Public Management as a preliminary course of study.
Note:
All specified weekends will be used for scheduling. Once the schedule has been finalized, all free half-days must be kept free as substitutes.