Public Governance and Leadership
Public Governance and Leadership

Author: Rainer Koch

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-11-03

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 383509100X

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In this book, internationally renowned scholars and practitioners elaborate on political as well as managerial questions, e.g. how to make overriding Public Governance changes the ’guiding model’ for a now needed stronger strategic approach. More specifically, their focus is on how moves towards a re-positioning as an enabling authority are to be made drivers for adapting management systems across all levels. In accordance with present developments, the authors explain how changes in the overall governance structure have to be used to adapt leadership practices in a more output-oriented or even entrepreneurial fashion. Overall, the underlying idea is to provide some further basics for a public sector type of a design-oriented management science.

Public Sector Leadership for the 21st Century
Public Sector Leadership for the 21st Century

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2001-10-05

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9264195033

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This is the first report to examine key leadership issues across OECD Member countries, including the strategies and practices governments are adopting, and the lessons from country experiences so far.

Public Management and Governance
Public Management and Governance

Author: Tony Bovaird

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06-02

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1134527845

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A comprehensive, in depth and accessible resource for students of public sector management and administration: with an international authorship, this is more comprehensive, cohesive and international than any other textbook in the area.

Strategic Leadership in the Public Sector
Strategic Leadership in the Public Sector

Author: Paul Joyce

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1317337794

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In good times and bad, in the different situations of renewal, crisis, and chronic resource constraints, the strategic leadership of public services is crucial. Good leaders are essential in helping the public sector to adapt and solve ‘wicked’ problems, and they are also integral to the reform and modernization of public governance. This new edition of Strategic Leadership in the Public Sector continues to provide insights into useful approaches and techniques for strategic leaders, looking at: what is expected of leaders competency frameworks leadership theories techniques and processes of strategic leadership leading strategic change the strategic state emerging leadership challenges. Replete with real-world case studies and examples, and including new material from the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe and India, plus an appendix with practical worksheets, the book gives students a truly international outlook on the subject and offers a clear understanding of the significance of leadership, strategic management and public services reform. This textbook represents essential reading for postgraduate students on public management degrees and aspiring or current public managers.

Innovation in the Public Sector
Innovation in the Public Sector

Author: V. Bekkers

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0230307523

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Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?

Value-based Leadership in Public Professions
Value-based Leadership in Public Professions

Author: Tor Busch

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1137331100

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A brand new text that examines the latest thinking in values-based leadership in the public sector. Assuming no prior knowledge, it draws on the experience of the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA to present students with an invaluable account of public sector management and leadership.

Public Governance Paradigms
Public Governance Paradigms

Author: Jacob Torfing

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-04-24

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1788971221

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This enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting governance paradigms that inform public administration reforms. From the rise to supremacy of New Public Management to new the growing preference for alternatives, four world-renowned authors launch a powerful and systematic comparison of the competing and co-existing paradigms, explaining the core features of public bureaucracy and professional rule in the modern day.

Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out
Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out

Author: Robert Gandossy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-11-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0471694258

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At last, there’s a business leadership book that really tackles the tough issues of integrity and governance. Taking a unique approach to leadership, this book gathers the path-breaking perspectives of influential shareholder activists; opinion-leading CEOs of major firms; trailblazing, distinguished academics; and courageous regulators. The all-star roster of contributors from the corporate world and academia includes Vanguard's John Bogle, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, and Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Sherron Watkins, Enron whistleblower and Time Person of the Year, shares an inside look at Enron, and Barbara Ley Toffler, former head of Arthur Andersen's Ethics Practice, paints a picture of Anderson Consulting before their fall.

Governance of Public Sector Organizations
Governance of Public Sector Organizations

Author: P. Lægreid

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-10-27

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0230290604

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Governance of Public Sector Organizations a nalyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate how generations of reform result in increased complexity of government organizations, and explain this layering process with multiple theories.

Tomorrow's Company
Tomorrow's Company

Author: Mark Goyder

Publisher: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780901469243

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