Konrad Raczkowski

Public Management

Theory and Practice

4^1 Springer O.ST f" 'S

1 State as a Special Organisation of Society 1 1.1 Notion and Origins of the State 1 1.2 State According to Social Teachings of the Church 4 1.3 Tasks for State as the System of Institutions 6 1.4 Governance Versus Public Management 9 References 16 2 Flanning and Decision Making in Public Management 21 2.1 The Essence of Flanning 21 2.2 Decisions and Their Classification 27 2.3 Decision Making in Conditions of Certainty, Risk and Uncertainty 33 2.4 Heterogeneous Knowledge in Strategie Flanning and Decision Making 36 2.5 Flanning and Decision Making in Political Transformation 38 2.6 Institutional Development Flanning on Local Government Level (IDF Method) 45 References 49 3 State Organisation for Institutional and Systemic Perspective 55 3.1 Dynamic Equilibrium of Organised Things 55 3.2 New Institutional Economy and State Organisation 58 3.3 Virtual Social Structure in Actual State Organisation 62 3.4 Organisational Social System of the State 64 3.5 Role of Non-governmental Organisations in the State 68 3.6 Main Models of State Organisation 73 3.7 Models of Organisation of Unitary States 80 3.8 Organisation of Multilevel Management in European Union 87 References 93 4 Managing and Leading in Public Organisations 99 4.1 Managing the Intellectual Capital in Public Organisation 99 4.2 Leadership in Network-Dominated Public Sphere 104

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4.3 Global Crisis of Public Leadership 111 4.4 Information and Disinformation: Key Tools of State Management 117 References 122 5 Control and Its Regulative Function in Public Management 127 5.1 Efficiency and Effectiveness in Control Process 127 5.2 Control as Management Function 130 5.3 Main Indexes of Global Control of Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Development 135 5.4 Diagnosing Efficiency of State as Organisation 139 5.5 Management Capability Index 147 References 150 6 Governance and Public Management Practice in Poland 153 6.1 Synthetic Characteristic of Empirical Research 153 6.2 Prime Ministers About Managing the State 165 6.2.1 Tadeusz Mazowiecki 165 6.2.2 Jan Krzysztof Bielecki 168 6.2.3 Jan Olszewski 172 6.2.4 Waldemar Pawlak 178 6.2.5 Hanna Suchocka 182 6.2.6 Jözef Oleksy 187 6.2.7 Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz 190 6.2.8 Jerzy Buzek 205 6.2.9 Leszek Miller 211 6.2.10 Marek Belka 215 6.2.11 Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz 219 6.2.12 Jaroslaw Kaczynski 223 Summary 233