Rethinking leadership for the public sector
By: DUNOON, Don
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, September 2002Australian Journal of Public Administration 61, 3, p. 3-18Abstract: Leadership and management are best thought of as matter of competencies. Or are they? The paper challenges the current orthodoxy in Australia on this question, and suggests that leadership and management need to be regarded as reflecting opposing values. The paper also distinguishes between charismatic and collective forms of leadership, and proposes the latter as likely to be of greater value in a public sector context. A challene for public sector organisations is how to strike and maintain a suitable balance between management for ongoing operations and leadership for deep-reaching change. Strategies for developing collective leadership capability are suggested
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Leadership and management are best thought of as matter of competencies. Or are they? The paper challenges the current orthodoxy in Australia on this question, and suggests that leadership and management need to be regarded as reflecting opposing values. The paper also distinguishes between charismatic and collective forms of leadership, and proposes the latter as likely to be of greater value in a public sector context. A challene for public sector organisations is how to strike and maintain a suitable balance between management for ongoing operations and leadership for deep-reaching change. Strategies for developing collective leadership capability are suggested
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