Public Management Challenges in a Local Government Unit in the Philippines: Implications to the Educational Sector

Florigold V. Saldaen¹, Jonah C. Celestino¹, Emma D. Aspiras¹, Cherry P. Collado¹ and Romiro G. Bautista^2,

¹Graduate School, Quirino State University, Philippines

²Office of the University Director for Instruction, Quirino State University, Philippines

Cite this paper:
Florigold V. Saldaen, Jonah C. Celestino, Emma D. Aspiras, Cherry P. Collado and Romiro G. Bautista. Public Management Challenges in a Local Government Unit in the Philippines: Implications to the Educational Sector. American Journal of Educational Research. 2021; 9(4):218-221. doi: 10.12691/education-9-4-10

Abstract

Public management challenges encompass all the pressing needs and demands of the citizens to be met for a better governance. This study is geared towards the determinants of the challenges of a Local Government Unit (LGU) along public management and the perceived solutions to the perceived challenges. Employing a total of 118 respondents under Descriptive Research design, the following are known: challenges along public management are addressed by a LGU in the Philippines much better than expected by the respondents and the solutions addressing the challenges in public management are exuded in a great extent. Owing to the foregoing findings, it is concluded that the LGU in the current study is exuding efforts to address the challenges along public management. It is further implied that educational institutions as prime entity in changing the landscape of public management are impinged to restructure the content of the curriculum in public management, reinvent and revitalize the teaching approaches, and forge collaboration with the industry and practitioners towards academe-industry complementation.

Keywords:
public management Local Government Units educational sectors

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