Lessons in leadership : meeting the challenges of public services management / Eileen Milner and Paul Joyce.

By:

Milner, Eileen M, 1963-

Contributor(s):

Joyce, Paul, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 181 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0203617797
9780203617793
0203344901
9780203344903
9786610174928
661017492X
9781134365302
1134365306
9781134365258
113436525X
9781134365296
1134365292

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lessons in leadership.DDC classification:

352.3/9 22

LOC classification:

JF1525.L4 M55 2005eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

1. Leadership and reform of the public services -- 2. What can we learn from academic research? -- 3. In search of leadership -- 4. The leadership trajectory -- 5. Defining public services leadership -- 6. Cases in successful leadership -- 7. Leading organisational change and renewal? Liverpool City Council -- 8. Lessons in leadership.

Summary: Annotation 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 todaythe relationship between political leadership and organizational leadershipdifferent approaches that have been adopted by public service leaders in organizations around the globe and their level of successthe 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Annotation 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 todaythe relationship between political leadership and organizational leadershipdifferent approaches that have been adopted by public service leaders in organizations around the globe and their level of successthe 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.

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