'Leaderism' : an evolution of managerialism in UK public service reform
By: O'REILLY, Dermot
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Contributor(s): REED, Mike.
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ArticlePublisher: Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, December 2010Public Administration: an international quarterly 88, 4, p. 960-978Abstract: This paper argues that leaderism as an emerging set of beliefs that frames and justifies certain innovatory changes in contemporary organizational and managerial practice is a development of managerialism that has been utilized and applied within the policy discourse of public service reform in the UK. The paper suggests that leaderism is an evolution of entrepreneurial and cultural management ideologies and practices. An analysis of the articulation of leaderism with public service reform in the UK is presented. The paper problematizes the construals of leadership contained within these texts and reflects on their promotion of leadership as a social and organizational technology. Leaderism is argued to be a complementary set of discourses, metaphors and practices to those of managerialism, which is being utilized in support of the evolution of NPM and new public governance approaches in the re-orientation of the public services towards the consumer-citizen
This paper argues that leaderism as an emerging set of beliefs that frames and justifies certain innovatory changes in contemporary organizational and managerial practice is a development of managerialism that has been utilized and applied within the policy discourse of public service reform in the UK. The paper suggests that leaderism is an evolution of entrepreneurial and cultural management ideologies and practices. An analysis of the articulation of leaderism with public service reform in the UK is presented. The paper problematizes the construals of leadership contained within these texts and reflects on their promotion of leadership as a social and organizational technology. Leaderism is argued to be a complementary set of discourses, metaphors and practices to those of managerialism, which is being utilized in support of the evolution of NPM and new public governance approaches in the re-orientation of the public services towards the consumer-citizen
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