This course provides students with contemporary analytical frameworks and techniques useful for implementing public policy and managing organizational performance to achieve policy objectives. It examines how public organizations realize their distinctive competencies within an evolving context in which the role of government is being redefined, and how these competencies are enhanced through appropriate management of people, capabilities, networks and resources. The course may include comparative analysis of public organizations in different jurisdictions and contexts, and with different mandates. Required of all first year MPP students.