Professional Public Decision Making/ Komplexes Entscheiden – (M.A.)

In public sector institutions, decision behaviour can be contradictory to the model of decision assertion. Political opportunism, administrative postulates, economic efficiency and legal framing conditions can collide. This leads to a system paralysis in several areas. Thus, functions in governance and organization of institutions are only working limited and decision makers are losing legitimation. As a consequence, there is a lack of numerous resources for governmental and social tasks. Decisions, which are resignation solutions made of improper compromise thinking or situational compulsion, are often contra functional and lead to unsolved problems in modern society or institutions. Therefore, society is in need of professional decision makers who have an eye on the diverging requirements and are aware of the consequences of their actions. Students of this master degree will be able to create own standards of evaluation, learn to generate new alternative solutions and learn to make decisions situational-, problem- as well as stakeholder equitable.

Based on interdisciplinary expert knowledge, the master programme “Professional Public Decision Making” aims at conveying comprehensive competence for young executives in public institutions. The programme includes not only analytical skills and normative authority, but also communicative competences. Because of the diversity of contents and methods which are part of decision making in public sector institutions, all of the following aspects will be discussed: Philosophical, economical, political, cultural as well as jurisprudential problem analysis, solution concepts and implementation approaches. It is important to mention that the focus is not only on theoretical knowledge, but in particular on practical appliance in tutorials.
All courses of this study programme will be taught in German. So, applicants from abroad should pass the "TestDaF" exam (German as a foreign language).