Strategic Management in Territorial Self-Government Units

Abstract

Public sector management is a complex process, conditioned by many
internal and external factors. The quality of the process has an enormous
impact on the conditions, speed and directions of local and regional
development. The essence of strategic management is to develop local and
regional processes and solve defined problems for the long term (most often
several years) with the use of rules of rational and efficient management
of the possessed resources. The commonly used instruments include the
development strategy, a perennial investment plan and a perennial financial
strategy. Self-government territorial units’ tasks are very seldom one-year
long; their implementation usually requires a few years’ time. Contemporary
strategic management is becoming a necessary requirement for the
improvement of the effectiveness of management and the implementation
of an accelerated variant of local and regional development. Local strategic
management requires self-government’s creativity in the activities focused on
meeting the reported needs. An effective management process leads to the
increase in the efficient use of local resources.