Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 15th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview VII. Working Group on Capacity Building of Civil Servants... Author(s) Howard Balanoff Texas State University San Marcos United States Dr. Howard R. Balanoff, Professor & Director William P. Hobby Center for Public Service Texas State University Title Certified public manager programs: a significant companion to academic degree programs for the professional development and education of public sector managers around the world File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract This abstract builds on a paper on the National Certified Public Manager (CPM) Program that I delivered in July 2006 at the IASIA Conference in Warsaw Poland. That paper generated significant interest in how public management certification programs could provide a vehicle for the professional development and education of the public sector workforce around the world. My proposed 2007 paper will examine in detail the concept and the curriculum of the Certified Public Manager Program both in the US and in Texas. It will identify the major organizational components of CPM such as the National Certified Public Manager (CPM) Consortium and the American Academy of Certified Public Managers (AACPM). It will also discuss how the CPM Program, could be an educational model for other countries around the world. As the concept of CPM has grown and developed in the US, it has been exported to other countries such as Lithuania, Latvia, Montenegro and Serbia. In the opinion of the author, CPM has great value and a logical next step is to take the CPM concept to the international level. Hopefully the seeds of CPM that were planted at the 2006 IASIA Conference in Warsaw Poland will continue to grow at the 2007 NISPAcee Conference in Kiev Ukraine. The Texas Certified Public Manager (CPM) Program is one of 28 CPM Programs which fall under the umbrella of the National Certified Public Manager Consortium. The CPM Program has been operating in the US for 25 years. In addition to the 26 State CPM Programs, the US National Government offers a CPM Program for federal employees and the City of Washington DC offers a CPM Program to District of Columbia employees. For additional information about the Certified Public Manager (CPM) Program please go to the following websites. www.txstate.edu/cpm - Texas Certified Public Manager (CPM) Website http://www.cpmconsortium.org/ - National Certified Public Manager (CPM) Website
