The Telfer School of Management’s MBA program is pleased to announce a new and distinct area of focus on Public Management. This comes in response to recent trends in the makeup of our student body, where approximately 35% of the graduates from our 12-month intensive program find work in public management, while close to 40% of our cohort in the 24-month professional program already hold jobs in the public sector. Therefore, the intent of this new area of focus is to provide students with contextual knowledge of public management to augment their understanding of the fundamentals of management practices.
Addressing the Public Sector’s Accelerating Orientation Toward Results
This new MBA area of focus is especially important given the acceleration of results-oriented practices noted in most public-sector organizations. We believe, therefore, that the blend of fundamental management skills applicable to all organizations, coupled with contextual knowledge of public management, will provide our graduates with a sound foundation for enabling success in this sector.
According to MBA Director, Greg Richards, “I’ve worked in both the public and private sectors. I’ve faced similar problems in both sectors; but certainly, public management can be more complex given the public policy implications of the work and the constant scrutiny that comes along with using taxpayer dollars to deliver value to Canadians. Our objective with this new area of focus is to help our students understand the importance and the challenge inherent to public management so that they may step into public sector organizations with confidence that they can deliver expected results”.
Featuring These Public Management Courses
All public management courses are taught by experienced public servants and/or professors with deep experience and knowledge of the public management. Current elective courses comprise:
- Business Government Relations (1.5 units)
- HR Management in the Public Sector (1.5 units)
- Today’s Global Business Environment and Strategic Markets (1.5units)
- Crisis Management, Organizational Continuity and Resilience (1.5 units, on-line)
- Managing Financial Resources in Public Sector Organizations (1.5 units)
- Human Resources in Public Sector Organizations (1.5 units)
These courses augment the standard MBA courses such as Strategy, Accounting, Statistics, Marketing, Managing Organizational Performance, Analytics, Managing Change, and Management Skills.
All but one of these courses are in-class courses, each 6 weeks in length, requiring 2 hours and 15 minutes of in-class time per week. The exception is “Crisis Management, Organizational Continuity and Resilience”, a fully on-line asynchronous course that can be completed on a personally tailored schedule to meet a specified deadline.
All courses are open to Special Students (students not currently enrolled in the MBA program). For those who might want to continue in the MBA program, a maximum of 6 units can be transferred.
Application Deadline and Key links
- The application deadline for the MBA’s Fall 2018 enrollment is May 15.
- See applications details here.
- To download a brochure, click here.
- Call us at 613-562-5884 or email us at graduate@telfer.uottawa.ca.
About the Telfer School of Management
The Telfer School of Management, which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019, offers a comprehensive portfolio of management degrees, diplomas and certificates. It is one of only 2 universities in Canada, and among only 2% of all management schools worldwide, to hold the “triple crown” of global accreditations from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. Furthermore, Telfer’s Executive MBA program has just been named by CEO Magazine as the world’s #1 Global Executive Program worldwide for the second year in a row. These recognitions are a strong testament to the quality of Telfer’s programs, faculty and student body.
