Public Administration Leadership Research Articles

Public Administration Leadership and Public Policies

This is a study of Portuguese central public administration addressing leadership typology, using the Full Range Leadership (FRL) model to better understand the leadership effectiveness process (Bass & Avolio, 1994). The study examines of the impact of training, professional experience, and organizational context on managers performance as well as predominant leadership styles. A total of 422 participants in the Portuguese state central public administration responded to this quantitate research.The results indicate that the perception of leadership style differs significantly between leaders and followers, as does the perception of evaluation. Regarding the organization where they work, significant differences were found in the perception of transformational leadership, contingent rewards, laissez-faire, recruitment, training, and evaluation. The association between leadership style and public policies is significant, and this relationship is moderated by whether the participant holds a managerial position. This study tells us what type of leadership is predominant in public administration and its association withpublic policies.

Leadership in public administration: today's challenges

The participation of the public in the formation and implementation of the state policy of promoting the development of civil society by the executive authorities is ensured. The issue of leadership in public administration is extremely relevant today. Leadership is the object of research by many scientists, three main theoretical approaches to understanding leadership (charismatic action, situational theory, synthetic theory) have been formulated. Leadership is a type of activity that permeates the entire management system. It is impossible to effectively perform the functions of planning, organization, motivation and control if there is no effective management and leaders.
 The manager’s personality is formed gradually. In psychology, various approaches to the development of theoretical models of personality development and the effectiveness of managerial activities of managers have been developed (collective approach, competitive, partial, engineering-psychological approach, reflective value approach, social-psychological, situational-complex approach, factor approach, functional approach, image approach, integrative).
 Seven skills and character traits of a manager valuable to companies are highlighted: leadership skills, strategic thinking, technical and technological skills, the ability to build relationships and create a team, the ability to present oneself and communicate, change management, honesty.
 The practice of training and retraining of managers includes active learning methods. The problem of the manager's culture in management philosophy is gaining importance. The main scientific disciplines are highlighted.
 Today, there are a significant number of grand programs for leaders of public administration that contribute to the development of leadership qualities.
 Self-management is the ability to manage oneself, one's potential, abilities, and knowledge.
 The working hours of the majority are condensed. The only solution can be the use of special techniques and methods, which have the general name of time management. There are many methods for solving problems related to the rational use of working time. The main principles of time management are highlighted.

Liderstvo v publichnomu upravlinni: perspektyvy rozvytku v Ukraini

In modern conditions, Ukraine sets many tasks, based on the democratization of public administration. To a large extent, this applies to the development of leadership and methods of ensuring it as a universal lever through which the state influences the condition of social, economic and political development. Leadership as a stabilizing factor of public administration, integrates the interests of different groups of the population, plays an important role in their lives, activities, group decisions that are important for each member of such a group. Leadership development includes strategies, objectives and goals of public service activities that will help improve the quality of public administration. Aspects related to management activities can be developed on the basis of an institutional environment that provides a clear legal basis for the functioning of the public service; development of civil society and effective communication between government and citizens; organizes models of educational and scientific activities related to the acquisition of knowledge and competencies of public administration specialists and research on the development of leadership in public administration. It is noteworthy that a person who seeks public recognition and support from the general public must necessarily demonstrate a willingness to implement the socially expected constructs that function in the mass consciousness as a social ideal. However, the methods of achieving such designs can be radically different up to the choice of diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive directions. It turns out that the despotic form of political domination in most cases leads to the regression of civil society and the state as a whole. Methodologically, the approach to the development of knowledge, skills and competencies of public administration leaders should be based on democratic principles and educational approaches that will form civic and managerial knowledge (competencies), namely, the ability to solve complex problems in professional and innovative spheres with the potential of obtaining and forming new knowledge or practices; ability to identify and solve systemic problems of social significance in key areas of activity. Public sector leadership is a combination of skills and competencies that provide personal influence, goal setting, and strategic thinking. Leaders are the initiators of change and key figures in the success of democratic administrative reform. They formulate strategies and determine how to implement them. Defining the prospects for the development of leadership in public administration is currently very important and is seen as a key to improving the capacity of social governance, which will depend on the sustainable development of the whole country.

Tantangan Kepemimpinan Administrator Publik : Antara Politik dan Administrasi (Manajerial)

In each phase of development, political and administrative relations are always filled one room paradigmatic debate of public administration. One of the question, whether the public administration is more a political act or whether he should be an activity to practice the values and managerial considerations in the act. For some thinkers, the debate is no longer relevant and is considered finished with the map that at the level of executive leadership, public administration is the entity with political action. While on the lower level (bureaucracy), a professional managerial approach became the face of public administration leadership. This paper basically not appreciate the satisfaction of the mapping. For the writer, with a variety of environmental changes and trends of other administrative, managerial competence is essential for top level administrators and as important as managerial approach as practiced in midlle and lower levels of public administrators. On the other hand, although not intend to completely reject the political approach, this paper reveals that the style, action and leadership performance of public administrators who rely solely on political capacity will not be able to resolve detail the complexity of a problem with the right. Therefore, reform of government bureaucracy is necessary though, but he was not to be the best answer for the problems of public administration, but rather reform the government itself and more specifically the orientation of reform of public sector leadership

Tantangan Kepemimpinan Administrator Publik : Antara Politik dan Administrasi (Manajerial)

In each phase of development, political and administrative relations are always filled one room paradigmatic debate of public administration. One of the question, whether the public administration is more a political act or whether he should be an activity to practice the values and managerial considerations in the act. For some thinkers, the debate is no longer relevant and is considered finished with the map that at the level of executive leadership, public administration is the entity with political action. While on the lower level (bureaucracy), a professional managerial approach became the face of public administration leadership. This paper basically not appreciate the satisfaction of the mapping. For the writer, with a variety of environmental changes and trends of other administrative, managerial competence is essential for top level administrators and as important as managerial approach as practiced in midlle and lower levels of public administrators. On the other hand, although not intend to completely reject the political approach, this paper reveals that the style, action and leadership performance of public administrators who rely solely on political capacity will not be able to resolve detail the complexity of a problem with the right. Therefore, reform of government bureaucracy is necessary though, but he was not to be the best answer for the problems of public administration, but rather reform the government itself and more specifically the orientation of reform of public sector leadership

LEADERSHIP AND DICTATORY IN CONTROL THE COUNTRY: FASCISM AND WAR

The problem of leadership in the system of public administration is studied. The factors of formation and the role of leadership in public administration in the 21st century are substantiated. The main factors and stages of dictatorial leadership in the Russian Federation have been identified and Putin is the most dangerous and schizophrenic entity in the 21st century, which has started a bloody war not only with Ukraine but with the entire civilized world. In contrast, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is the most powerful, outstanding leader in the modern world. Its mission is to unite Ukraine and the world to defeat the bloody dictator, a terrorist country and save the democratic world.

Теоретичні та концептуальні підходи до досліджень аспектів лідерства в органах публічної влади

Досліджено теоретичні засади лідерства в органах публічної влади на основі аналізу різних підходів та теорій лідерства. Акцентовано увагу на використанні наукових підходів та розробок вітчизняних і зарубіжних вчених при дослідженні лідерства, обґрунтовано роль лідерства у державному управлінні на сучасному етапі соціально-економічного розвитку та доведено необхідність системного розвитку лідерства в органах публічної влади.

Exploring city climate leadership in theory and practice: responding to the polycentric challenge

ABSTRACT This article has a twofold aim inspired by observed gaps in urban climate governance theory and practice. First, it explores city leadership strategies of securing a closer correspondence between climate policy goals and observed realities on the ground. Second, it presents an in-depth and nuanced theoretical understanding of urban climate leadership inspired by four bodies of public administration leadership theory, reflecting leadership as an understudied field in the urban climate governance literature. Being largely exploratory and conceptual in nature, the article aims more specifically to identify the contribution of different public leadership theories and strategies to our understanding of city climate leadership, the explanatory reach and limitations of the theories and the potential interdependency between the leadership strategies. The practice of climate leadership in the city of Oslo is used as an illustrative case. The results show that each body of theory shed light on relevant aspects of climate leadership practices in diverse institutional contexts. By applying a careful mix of these leadership strategies and instruments, city leadership adds the stringence, predictability and motivation needed for multiple public and private actors to engage collectively and bridge policy gaps. However, social, institutional and physical constraints related to the complex, polycentric character of urban climate governance represent phenomena that fall outside the scope of the leadership theories. This point to limitations in the theories’ explanatory reach that give direction to future research.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ФЕНОМЕНУ ЛІДЕРСТВА В ПУБЛІЧНОМУ УПРАВЛІННІ (МЕТОДОЛОГІЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ)

Метою статті є розкриття особливостей дослідження (методологічний аспект) феномену лідерства в публічному управлінні. Феномен лідерства надзвичайно багатогранний за своїми проявами і функціями, залежить від історичних епох, типів політичних систем, конкретної ситуації, особливостей лідерів і їх конституєнтів та інших факторів. На сьогодні актуальним залишаються питання методології дослідження феномену лідерства в публічному управлінні України, яка дозволить сформувати правильні (вивірені) пропозиції для практичного їх застосування на практиці. У статті при висвітленні особливостей дослідження лідерства в публічному управлінні України акцентовано увагу на таких методологічних аспектах: використання наукових підходів, розробок вітчизняних та зарубіжних вчених, застосування феноменологічного підходу, спеціальних методів дослідження, емпіричних методів тощо. Результатами проведеного дослідження підтверджено: різницю в підходах вітчизняних та іноземних учених до дослідження лідерства в публічному управлінні; відсутність критичної розбіжності між теоретичними підходами до лідерства представниками північно-американської наукової школи та підходами до лідерства у практиці публічного управління США, Канади; помилковість сліпого застосування (без відповідних емпіричних досліджень) напрацювань зарубіжних вчених для розробки пропозицій з лідерства в публічному управлінні України; недостатність аналізу та узагальнення теоретичних підходів учених при дослідженнях лідерства в публічному управлінні; необхідність перевіряти теорії лідерства в публічному управлінні України емпіричними дослідженнями; необхідність більш широкого використання феноменологічного підходу для визначення атрибутів ефективних лідерів в публічному управлінні України, а також спеціальних методів дослідження: опитування, тестування, нестандартизоване інтерв’ю, метод експертного оцінювання, прикладні програми комплексної обробки даних тощо.

Аналіз сучасного стану та тенденцій інноваційного лідерства в публічному управлінні

У статті досліджуються актуальні питання інноваційного лідерства в публічному управлінні, аналізуються сучасний стан та тенденції розвитку його потенціалу в умовах глобальних трансформацій та кризових явищ в суспільстві. Визначено сутність, зміст, поняття інноваційного лідерства в публічному управлінні в історичній ретроспективі та контексті нових концептуальних підходів до дослідження лідерства. Встановлено, що інноваційне лідерство становить собою підхід до організаційного розвитку та організаційних змін. Наголошується, що у внутрішньому контурі системи публічного управління інноваційне лідерство детерміновано соціально-психологічними процесами в організації, управлінням діяльністю команди, впливом на працівників, який супроводжується зміною уявлень і цінностей останніх, активізацією вищих потреб у новаторстві, досягненні, творчості, самоактуалізації. 
 До понятійного апарату інноваційного лідерства віднесено роль інноваційного лідерства в умовах глобальних трансформацій, особистість інноваційного лідера, реалізацію інноваційного лідерства в публічному управлінні, забезпечення ефективної та результативної роботи. 
 Сучасний стан інноваційного лідерства в публічному управлінні характеризується усвідомленням ролі культури управління, необхідності опанування механізмів самоорганізації, які вивільняють енергію людської ініціативи, дозволять ефективно реагувати на невизначеність та швидкі зміни навколишнього світу при вирішенні необмежених завдань. 
 Тенденції розвитку інноваційного лідерства розглядаються відносно умов глобальних трансформацій та кризових явищ в контексті невідворотних та варіативних трендів. 
 Проаналізовано основні функції інноваційної організаційної культури органів публічної влади для реалізації цілей регіонального та місцевого інноваційного розвитку.
 В основі методів дослідження використано загальні та спеціальні наукові методи для вивчення та оцінки підґрунтя щодо формування реалізації інноваційного лідерства в історичному і сучасному контексті.

Foreign experience of innovation leadership in public administration: possibilities of adaptation in Ukraine

Foreign experience of innovation leadership in public administration: possibilities of adaptation in Ukraine

Correction: Comparative Analysis of Outstanding Women in Public Administration Leadership: a Book Review

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in the article title. The correct title should be “Comparative Analysis of Outstanding Women in Public Administration Leadership: a Book Review.”

Comparative Analysis of Outstanding Women in Public Administration Leadership: a Book Review

Comparative Analysis of Outstanding Women in Public Administration Leadership: a Book Review

Juggling complex systems within a metropolitan health district

Subject area Leadership and Health Care management and Organisational Development and Talent Management. Study level/applicability Postgraduate level for honours or master’s programs in courses on public health, executive leadership and management, organisational development and public administration leadership. Case overview The case study offers an account of Ms Xolani Ngumi’s Chief Director, Enola District Health Services, South Africa, who was driving from her newly constructed modern district hospital to one of the municipal clinics that she was overseeing. It highlights the dilemma of the general practitioners (GP’s) that refused to be relocated, leading to many clinics being without clinical support. Expected learning outcomes Expected learning outcomes are as follows: Identification of stakeholders in a particular dilemma to aid leaders’ decision-making; developing the competence of balancing conflicting needs of stakeholders by juggling complex systems; and analysing staffing issues and offer recommendations to enhance talent management. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 7: Management Science.

Practical Leadership in Public Administration: The Practicality of Poetry

Can practical understandings about the human elements of leadership in Public Administration be gained from poetic literature? This paper argues that it can, supporting the view of a minority of theorists like Leo Strauss and Dwight Waldo. It analyzes four examples of such poetic utility in two Shakespearean plays – Henry V and Richard III. First, it analyzes how the winning-warrior leader Henry V is used in some business schools to teach MBWA (management by walking about). Second, it shows how the poetry in this play facilitates understanding the unconscious of public policy leadership. Third, it analyzes the relevance of text and sub-texts of the losing-warrior leader Richard III. Fourth, it analyzes the depth that Sigmund Freud explained in Richard III, including insights about what is explained as stronzi. The relevance is suggested for Public Administration theory and practice in such ways as upgrading its reflection about leadership.

Model of effective leadership in public administration

A large number of factors have an impact on leadership effectiveness. One of the most commonly cited is the leadership potential of the leaders themselves. Leaders as individuals are defined in this manner by their inherited qualities and the personality-trait development they have either received or actually achieved themselves. Furthermore leadership (the conduct of leaders) is closely connected to leaders’ motivation, values and work ethic, and the power and authority that leaders acquire or build. To determine the extent to which leadership effectiveness is related to personality-trait based leadership potential, the paper presents a proposed model of effective leadership in the public sector, which covers the formation of personal leadership potential and identifying leadership effectiveness. The paper presents a trial application of the model in Slovenia, which offers a realistic representation of leadership potential and leadership effectiveness, which are at a relatively low level due to past neglect of this field in Slovenian central government units.

Views of the Slovenian nursing profession regarding leadership

Introduction: New, up-to-date approaches to professionalism presuppose the formation of a nursing team in such a way that relationships are not based on classical hierarchical relationships between superiors and subordinates but on relationships of interdependence and acknowledgment of the role the individual plays in the team. The objective of this article is to present the competences required by nurses in top organizational leadership positions from two viewpoints: as seen by nurses in top leadership positions and as seen by nurses in subordinate positions.Methods: A descriptive research method using a questionnaire as the measuring instrument was used. The questionnaire was based on the competence model of leadership in public administration in Slovenia and was tested on various professional groups.Results: Statistically signifi cant differences were observed with regard to the majority of competences between nurses in top leadership positions and nurses in non-leadership positions. Therefore, the views regarding what competences nurses in leadership positions should have substantially differed within theprofessional group.Conclusions: The fi rst conclusion is therefore that education on leadership on both the theoretical and practical levels must be introduced into undergraduate study programmes of health colleges. With the help of factor analysis we formed fi ve subgroups within the professional group of nurses: three subgroups within the group of nurses in leadership positions and two subgroups within the group of nurses in nonleadershippositions. A special education programme should be prepared for each of these subgroups.

Understanding Leadership in Public Administration: The Biographical Approach

This essay reviews the range of literature that uses a biographical approach to probe leadership in public administration. What are the variations in this approach? What have we learned? What should be done in the future? The genre is examined through several books and articles that have studied agency leaders and government departments.

Validating the relevance of leadership in public administration

The pillars of public administration rest on balancing the triumvirate of traditions, managerial, political, and legal, in developing and implementing public policy. The normative concept of leadership has consistently surfaced as an important dimension in the policy process. However, scholarship exploring the importance and relevance of leadership in public administration has been sporadic and limited in scope. This article elucidates the disconnect between the study of leadership and public administration. To validate the relevance of leadership in public administration, future empirical studies must embrace the long-view, heuristic inquiry, and the lifecycle of leadership.

Teaching Leadership in Public Administration

Graduates of public administration programs regularly find themselves in roles accorded substantial responsibility and authority. It is therefore crucial that these programs provide effective instruction that helps students develop leadership skills and attributes. The dilemma is that leadership concepts are not susceptible to traditional didactic instructional approaches, which are cognitively based. Leadership learning is best accomplished in the affective and behavioral domains as well as in the cognitive. We present a pedagogical model that we believe is more appropriate for teaching leadership in public administration, public policy, and public affairs. This model marries the key competencies of effective leaders with suitable teaching orientations. We illustrate how this model may be applied by describing a graduate leadership course we have developed and taught.