Panel on Management and Leadership in the Public Sector
Date: May 24-26, 2018
Chairs:
Camelia Cojocaru, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Magdalena Iordache-Platis, University of Bucharest, Bucharest , Romania
The Panel on Management and Leadership in the Public Sector included three papers related to different sides of the public sector: from enhancing leadership in the public sector by creating specific academic competences, to creating managerial processes for transferring university research to innovation hubs, and to presenting technologies which increase the efficiency of the public health sector.
The research work presented underlined the multiple challenges that the public sector must face nowadays. The papers were the starting point for discussions between the audience (from academics to practitioners and trainers from different countries). The public showed interest in developing curricular and extracurricular activities for improving the skills of future public servants and also finding ways to attract talents to the public sector. The universities’ role in creating entrepreneurial infrastructures was debated in terms of planning and financing such initiatives.
The panel provided an interesting framework for sharing the outcomes of academic research and practitioners’ expertise.