Title:
Lessons in leadership : meeting the challenges of public services management
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Publication Information:
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2005
ISBN:
9780415319058
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Summary
Summary
Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector. The book covers:
the tensions that can arise between administrative/bureaucratic traditions and the leadership styles required today the relationship between political leadership and organizational leadership different approaches that have been adopted by public service leaders in organizations around the globe and their level of success the extent to which existing theories of leadership are appropriate for a new management context.A welcome addition to the current literature, this book will be invaluable reading for students of public administration as well as practitioners and policy makers in the public services.
Author Notes
Paul Joyce is Head of the Department of Strategic Management and Marketing in the Nottingham Business School, The Nottingham Trent University.
Excerpts
Excerpts
"The authors of Lessons in Leadership argue that leadership is not mystical and mysterious. They look at how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discuss their applicability to the public sector. Case study material from around the world is used to illustrate some of the issues around leadership and the role of politics. This book also provides a detailed analysis of an organisation that seemed beyond help. The authors offer an assessment of its characteristics as a learning organisation, its journey to developing leadership capacity and ambition." "Lessons in Leadership will be invaluable reading for students of public administration, particularly those on MBA and DMS courses, as well as practitioners and policy makers in the public services."--BOOK JACKET.Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vi |
| 1 Leadership and reform of the public services | p. 1 |
| 2 What can we learn from academic research? | p. 17 |
| 3 In search of leadership | p. 41 |
| 4 The leadership trajectory | p. 59 |
| 5 Defining public services leadership | p. 71 |
| 6 Cases in successful leadership | p. 95 |
| 7 Leading organisational change and renewal? Liverpool City Council | p. 131 |
| 8 Lessons in leadership | p. 151 |
| Bibliography | p. 169 |
| Index | p. 175 |
