UEH EMBA-EMPM

This course provides students an understanding of the context, perspectives, and structure of collaborative governance that can help students to both lead and benefit from collaborating with others on policy issues and projects. Collaborative Governance is a field of practice cutting across a number of professions from public administration, urban planning and social work as well as academic disciplines like psychology, sociology and economics. Care will be given to develop an understanding of Collaborative Governance at several levels of analysis: individual, group, inter­organizational, and at various levels of society. A focus is also on Collaborative Governance Regimes (CGRs) which are different contextual frameworks of Collaborative Governance in practice. The examination of the CGRs will provide students with profound understanding on Collaborative governance in practice and skills in developing CGRs of their own. In brief, this foundation class seeks to build a framework of understanding that will enable students to make their collaborations more successful, and can also serve as a springboard to further learning and skill building for those pursuing the proposed Graduate Certificate in Collaborative Governance.
Collaborative Governance defines a process of solving our most pressing public issues by engaging and sharing decision making responsibility with others affected by the decisions. Today we find ourselves in circumstance requiring such an approach:
- Cooperating with many parties in settings of dispersed authority
- Examining of issues characterized by complexity, uncertainty and interdependence
- Working on issues that require commitment of stakeholders to ensure success
- Working on issues that are common goods or services requiring us to work across public, private and nonprofit sectors of society.
- Working to implement solutions that have long time horizons or that require the concerted efforts of stakeholders over time