Public Sector Leadership: International Challenges and Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848440898 ISBN 13: 9781848440890

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848440898
• ISBN 13: 9781848440890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Raffel Jeffrey A., Leisink Peter, Middlebrooks Anthony E.