Public Sector Leadership

International Challenges and Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

A truly international examination of public sector leadership, this book explores the ways leaders of developed nations are addressing current challenges. The overriding question explored by the authors is how public leadership across the globe addresses new challenges (such as security, financial, demographic), new expectations of leaders, and what public sector leadership means in the new era. The book allows the reader to view a large number of situations across the globe to better understand the relation between context and leadership. It integrates the two fields of leadership and public administration, providing a wide-ranging and complementary empirical context to the topic. Transcending state-centered perspectives, the authors include new developments in governance and public-private sector collaboration while retaining a focus on the public values involved. The chapters address public sector leadership issues in a wide array of nations, integrating international perspectives with a globally diverse authorship. Several chapters address issues of collaboration across sectors, changing roles in the New Public Management paradigm, and corresponding new visions of leadership. Several of the chapters are explicitly comparative, including a study of mental health leadership training topics in eight nations, central banking in Europe, and efficiency studies in Britain, Denmark, and Norway. The chapters can be used as thought-provoking case studies as part of a supplemental text, and are accompanied by substantial bibliographies. Scholars, students, and practitioners in leadership, public policy and administration, and organization studies will find this volume a useful reference.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-05-29
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781848440890

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Edited by Jeffrey A. Raffel, Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration, University of Delaware, US, Peter Leisink, Utrecht University School of Governance, The Netherlands and Anthony E. Middlebrooks, Assistant Professor of Leadership, University of Delaware, US

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:ForewordRobert B. Denhardt1. IntroductionJeffrey A. Raffel, Peter Leisink and Anthony E. MiddlebrooksPART I: NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE2. Government Reform and Public Service Values in Democratic SocietiesFrances Stokes Berry3. Explaining Radical Policy Change Against All Odds: The Role of Leadership, Institutions, Program Design and Policy WindowsHarald Sætren4. Leading Central Banking in EuropeMartin Marcussen5. Dutch Civil Service Leadership: Torn Between Managerial and Policy-Oriented Leadership RolesTrui Steen and Frits M. Van der MeerPART II: FRONTIERS OF POLITICAL-ADMINISTRATIVE RELATIONS6. Are Elected Executives Needed to Achieve Accountability to Citizens? Performance Issues and Form of Government in Large US CitiesJames H. Svara7. Political and Administrative Leadership in a Reinvented European CommissionAnchrit C. Wille8. Russian Bureaucracy as an Alternative Model of LeadershipMarc Holzer and Iryna IlliashPART III: LEADERSHIP PROCESSES IN INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS9. A New Look at Leadership in Collaborative Networks: Process CatalystsMyrna P. Mandell and Robyn Keast10. Executive Involvement and Formal Authority in Government Information-Sharing Networks: The West Nile Virus OutbreakJ. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Theresa A. Pardo and G. Brian Burke11. Business Improvement Districts and the Design of Third-Party Governance: Framing Business Leadership in Urban Subdistrict RegenerationJonathan B. Justice and Chris K. Skelcher12. Leadership in the Unglued OrganizationPatricia Wallace IngrahamPART IV: ETHICS, VALUES AND DIVERSITY13. Beyond Cognition: Affective Leadership and Emotional LaborMeredith A .Newman, Mary E. Guy and Sharon H. Mastracci14. Leadership Diversity in an Ageing WorkforceKathleen Vanmullem and Annie Hondeghem15. Ethical Leadership in Public-Private Partnerships: Learning from an Australian ‘Great Controversy’?Judy Johnston and Siegfried Gudergan16. Leadership, Administrative Evil and the Ethics of Incompetence: The Failed Response to Hurricane KatrinaGuy B. Adams and Danny L. BalfourPART V: LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT17. Is Public Sector Leadership Distinct? A Comparative Analysis of Core Competencies in the Senior Executive ServiceTim A. Mau18. Examination of Mental Health Leadership Competencies Across IIMHL CountriesRichard H. Beinecke and Justin Spencer19. Evaluation of Leadership Development and Training in the British Senior Civil Service: The Search for the Holy Grail?Sylvia Horton10. ConclusionJeffrey A. Raffel, Peter Leisink and Anthony E. MiddlebrooksIndex