New management philosophy is being tested in the publicly owned organisations. The unifying and strict performance culture needs more individual models of the personnel's development. In Vaasa University the Administrative Sciences study the change of the administration in the public sector from the perspective of comparative social sciences, and the internationality-oriented program trains the students into academic professionals for whom the managerial skills are important. The information attained through comparisons and international examples are the key to the critical evaluation, development and reformation of the Finnish public sector. Management can be described at least by some features that are included both in the public and the private sector.
Management means the creation of common goal and value basis for the organisation.
Managers supervise the realisation of organisation's interests. Managers decide which are the right activity strategies and try to get the personnel committed to them. The duty of the managers is both to co-ordinate and control the organisation and to motivate the personnel. It is justified to ask whether there are fundamental, more or less principle differences in the public and private management. Naturally there are no simple answers.