Resumen

GUERRERO, Omar. Public Management in Post-Industrial Society. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2005, vol.10, n.31, pp.463-477. ISSN 1315-9984.

Post-industrial society manifests itself in five dimensions: an economic sector; an occupational distribution; centralism of theoretical knowledge; a futuristic orientation based on technological control and decision making oriented towards new intellectual technology. This motivates us to analyze public management in the post-industrial society through documentary analysis. According to present conditions, this society gives rise to a public administration that consolidates relations of dominion, that is the government of men together with a management that assumes control of material things. Presently, public administration maintains its basic characteristics, without at the same time taking into account the stage in which changes produced by post-industrialization impel the advent of the modality of management of services

Palabras clave : Public management; post-industrial; society; human government; management of materials.