Stephen Brookes - The New Public Leadership Challenge

Edited By

Stephen Brookes

Senior Fellow in Public Policy and Management, Manchester Business School

Keith Grint

Professor of Public Leadership & Management, Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School

Selection and editorial content Stephen Brookes and Keith Grint 2010 Individual chapters the contributors 2010

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The new public leadership challenge / edited by Stephen Brookes, Keith Grint.
p. cm.
Summary: This book is drawn from the results of five seminars. This unique book draws on the four areas of public sector reform, essential features for public leaders, public leadership in action and the outline of a public leadership approach for the future. It seeks to give public leadership a firm foothold within the study of leadership in generalProvided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-230-22417-9 (hardback)

1. Leadership. I. Brookes, Stephen, 1955 II. Grint, Keith.

HM1261.N49 2010M
303.34dc22

2009046193

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10

Printed and bound in Great Britain by
CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne

Stephen Brookes
To my wife Kate for her empathy and encouragement
and my children, David, Anthony and Katie

Keith Grint
to Kris and Becky, Beki and Adam, Katy and Richie, and to Sandra

Tables

Public Leadership Contentions

Capability Review PSA Correlations

Leadership: Policy Problems and Solutions

Failures in Care, and the Findings of Subsequent Inquiries

Sample of Headteachers

MOD (2008: 57) Defence Plan 20082012

The Capabilities Framework of the Warwick Political Leadership Questionnaire

Top Three Contextual Responses

Least Positive Three Responses for Policy Officers and Focus Groups

Analysis of Contextual Factors and Form of Leadership

Top and Bottom Five Mechanisms Based on Coding as Strength

An Alternative Model for Whole Systems Leadership Development

Percentage of Public Sector and Private Sector Respondents Agreeing with Line Management and Leadership Survey Items

Percentage of Public Sector and Private Sector Respondents Agreeing with Survey Items Relating to Changing Management Roles

Percentage of Public Sector and Private Sector Respondents Agreeing with Leadership and Career Development Survey Items

Examples of Narratives of Change

Full Cost Recovery

Full Cost Recovery by Type of Funding Agreement

Figures

Capability Reviews: Revised Model

The NHS Leadership Qualities Framework

Trends in Perceptions of Crime Trends

Trends in Ratings of the Police Locally

Factors Critical to the Success of Community Leadership

Critical Success Factors Weighted Scores (From 1 to 3)

Contexts for Critical Success Factors of Partnership Working

Typology of Problems, Power and Authority

Four Primary Ways of Organising Social Life

Elegant (Single Mode) Solutions to Global Warming

Clumsy Solution for Wicked Problem of Global Warming

Clumsy Approaches to Wicked Problems

The Seven Principles for Leading Adaptive Work

Relationship Between a Directive Centre and a Compliant Locality

Relationships Between a Creative Purposeful Partnership and an Enabling Supportive Centre

Classification of Charities

Full Cost Recovery

Length of Agreements Held by Charities Showing Full Cost Recovery

Agreement on Statements Relating to Mission Conformity, Independence and Trustee Involvement

The Seven Principles of Public Life

The Nature of the Values in the Voluntary Sector

Potential Realist Evaluation Framework for Public Leadership

New Public Leadership Framework

A Virtuous Circle of Collective Leadership