Adrian Ritz, Prof. Dr., is a business administration scholar specialized in administrative studies and theory, public management, public sector reforms, human resources management and organization studies. As assis-tant professor of public administration and a member of the executive board of the interdisciplinary centre of competence for public management at the University of Bern in Switzerland he teaches at the faculty for social sciences and at the faculty of law at the University of Bern. He is the managing director of the Executive Master of Public Administration (MPA) and the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Public Management and Policy (CeMap) at the University of Bern. Ritz is a member of the Swiss Public Administration Network (SPAN).
His main research and publication areas are in the field of public management, leadership, motivation and human resources management, administrative reforms, evaluation and performance management. His doctoral thesis about „Evaluation of New Public Management Reforms“ received the award for the best doctoral thesis in 2004 of the Swiss Association for Organization and Management. Ritz has articles published in the following journals: Public Administration, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Public Money & Management, Review of Public Personnel Administration, International Public Management Journal, and International Journal of Public Administration. His book “Public Management” (in German), co-authored with Norbert Thom, is published in its 4th edition.
Adrian Ritz worked as research scholar at the University of Georgia, School of Public and International Affairs, Department of Public Administration and Policy, in Athens GA USA, and at Indiana University, School for Public and Environmental Affairs, in Bloomington IN USA. He worked as lecturer for the Universities of Bern, Lausanne, St. Gall, Munich/Germany and Krems/Austria. His activities in consulting and applied research for public institutions take place at all federal levels of Switzerland.
His main research and publication areas are in the field of public management, leadership, motivation and human resources management, administrative reforms, evaluation and performance management. His doctoral thesis about „Evaluation of New Public Management Reforms“ received the award for the best doctoral thesis in 2004 of the Swiss Association for Organization and Management. Ritz has articles published in the following journals: Public Administration, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Public Money & Management, Review of Public Personnel Administration, International Public Management Journal, and International Journal of Public Administration. His book “Public Management” (in German), co-authored with Norbert Thom, is published in its 4th edition.
Adrian Ritz worked as research scholar at the University of Georgia, School of Public and International Affairs, Department of Public Administration and Policy, in Athens GA USA, and at Indiana University, School for Public and Environmental Affairs, in Bloomington IN USA. He worked as lecturer for the Universities of Bern, Lausanne, St. Gall, Munich/Germany and Krems/Austria. His activities in consulting and applied research for public institutions take place at all federal levels of Switzerland.
