Course plan
Credits: 3 hec
Grade: Fail/Pass
English name: Management in the Water Sector
Swedish name: Management i vattensektorn
Intended learning outcomes
After taking this course, participants will be able to:
- understand and analyze the differences, benefits and limitations of public water service providers with different organizational structures in different countries.
- understand and scrutinize different forms of performance measurements, among them benchmark systems for the water sector.
- describe market mechanisms, funding and auditing of public water service providers
- describe how a water utility is organized and developed.
Teaching activities
The course includes five days of scheduled lectures and seminars. The participants will choose a relevant management topic and individually or in pair disseminate it and write a short report on how the topic should be understood and applied in a given situation.
Examination
The examination will be an oral presentation of the chosen management theme during the study week and a short project report to be handed in not later than 5 weeks after the end of the course week.
Prerequisites
This course is open for PhD students and for participants from the water sector.
Examiner
Kenneth M. Persson, Kenneth_M.Persson@tvrl.lth.se
Literature
Provided during the course