The possibility of professional public management in local governments. Its functionality and legal viability

Abstract

Local public organizations, to undertake the processes of modernization and institutional improvement that allow them to respond to the different challenges that they must face today, need to consolidate a management system aimed at achieving results and providing services. public based on quality, proximity and providing an effective response to citizen demands and needs. Processes that require effective government, leadership, professional direction, initiative and strategic vision, through which a governance model based on collaboration, solidarity and collective involvement can also be consolidated.
Professional public management is conceived as one of the fundamental pieces of the organizational framework for our local entities, inspired by principles (planning, management by objectives, evaluation of the results achieved...) in accordance with the role they must play and from the responsibility for achieving an effective and satisfactory provision of public services.
This article exposes and justifies the importance of professional public management in local organizations, the formal and cultural limitations that exist for its effective insertion, as well as the criteria on which its performance and the exercise of management functions are based.