Experience in development and implementation of a professional retraining program for city managers

Abstract

The article presents modern approaches to managing the social and economic development of municipalities. The authors summarize the experience of developing and implementing a program of professional retraining of city managers on the basis of Vologda branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. The modern management paradigm is based on a system approach to the object of management and consideration of all elements of the system in dynamics and interaction between themselves and the external environment. To effectively manage the social and economic development of municipalities, it is necessary to retrain the staff of managers (city-managers) on a regular basis.