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Developing Public Service Leaders examines why and how governments and representative bodies in public service organizations have mounted major interventions over the last two decades to develop senior staff as leaders. A critical explanation is developed of the foundational contribution made by national leadership development interventions in the 2000s to the emergence, proliferation, and normalization of leadership development provision. Through carrying out qualitative research in England, the authors investigate the national leadership development interventions for school education, healthcare, and higher education. Whilst also looking at the contemporary legacy of these interventions within a global scale, examining the growing international movement and comparing interventions across the world.
The book looks at new ways to approach leadership development, adopting a novel perspective on leadership as a metaphorical concept and coining the concept of 'leaderism', and exploring how although senior staff may be widely acculturated as leaders, they may not necessarily be committed to acting as government change agents. Leadership development makes a diffuse contribution towards the ongoing neoliberalization of public services.
Developing Public Service Leaders is a comprehensive and essential read for a researcher or policymaker striving for an in-depth understanding of the field and its ramifications.
Contents
PART 1: DEVELOPING PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERS: AN ELITE POLICY 'META-LEVER'?
1: Leadership development for public services as a growth industry
2: Leadership development interventions in context: public service neoliberalization
3: Framing the enquiry: critical realism, an elite perspective, orchestrating change
4: The translation of leadership discourse to public services
PART 2: 'BRITISH EXCEPTIONALISM' IN ACTION: LARGE-SCALE INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERS
5: Investigating an extreme case: national interventions to develop public service leaders
6: Elite orchestration of national leadership development interventions for public services
7: Elite orchestration and mediation of national leadership development provision
8: Elite mediation of acculturation: change agents for reform or professionalized leaders?
PART 3: DEVELOPING PROFESSIONALIZED LEADERS FOR NEOLIBERALIZED PUBLIC SERVICES
9: Institutionalizing national leadership development interventions for English public services
10: the 'new normal': international investment in public service leadership development
11: Developing public service leaders: an elite 'weapon of mass distraction'?
