Public management – attempt of concepts systematization

The present article is an attempt at systematizing the most important management conceptions concerning public management. The starting point for this was the determination of the significance of the “public management” term and pointing at its multidimensional character. Further on the author makes a review of the opinions regarding the genesis of the public management, and then he goes on to present briefly the development of this discipline from the historical perspective. The last part of the article contains the foundations of two contemporary streams of public management, i.e. new public management and public governance