What Is Network Management?

Many organizations (both public and private) have increasingly become a series of inter-organized networks across the world. Today, a competitive public manager must be able to manage people within the home organization and people outside the organization. Given that many relationships between organizations are majorly contractual and partnerships developing an unrivaled capacity to maintain both relationships is a crucial element for any contemporary public manager. This paper will focus on providing oversight of the market environment of contract design and explore the concepts of entrepreneurship and general management. According to Cohen (59), formal partnerships between public and private entities are no longer restricted to individual contracts of informal interaction between the private sector and the government. Rater, what emanates constitutes a set of episodic relationships that involves the arrays of both non-profit organizations, private and public, and each plays a role in interlocking and implementing various public policy segments. Stephen Cohen defines public entrepreneurship as a process of inducting and implementing new innovative ideas in public organizations. Given that his ideologies of a responsible contract manager cut across public and private sectors, public entrepreneurs can also be referred to as policy entrepreneurs because they gather ideas from outside the government and exercise them in public enterprise. A public entrepreneur needs to display immense decision-making skills as they are crucial in ensuring successful contract management. The authors continue to explore the wasteful contract in Iraq, which resulted from unstable decision-making. As they are concerned with ensuring that private sector contractors engage in activities that serve the larger public's interest, contract managers need to delve into definitive measures that will enable the private contractors to conform with public sectors while preserving their personal attributes. In the book, the authors explore and suggest similar practical methods to enforce accountability in contract management in many cases by, for example, providing transparency and baseline information of an ethical contract manager. 

Conclusion 

For all contemporary managers, imminent possession of contract management skills is crucial for both the private and public sectors. As many government duties are increasingly contracted out to private contractors, managers need to display immense co-coordinative skills in evaluating the potential of private contractors to perfectly serve the public's interests. Cohen insists that a responsible manager should bear the burden of developing proactive measures that assure accountability and transparency in the public sector. 

Reference 

Cohen, S. (2008). The responsible contract manager: Protecting the public interest in an outsourced world. Georgetown University Press.