Public Governance and Leadership : Political and Managerial Problems in Making Public Governance Changes the Driver for Re-Constituting Leadership

Globalisation-driven demands to increase efficiency and effectiveness require nearly all OECD member states to strategically modernise their management of state and administration. In this book, internationally renowned scholars and practitioners elaborate on political as well as managerial questions, as how to make overriding Public Governance changes the {u2019}guiding model{u2019} for a now needed stronger strategic approach. More specifically, their focus is on how moves towards a re-positioning as an enabling authority are to be made drivers for adapting management systems across all levels. In accordance with present developments, the authors explain how changes in the overall governance structure have to be used to adapt leadership practices in a more output-oriented or even entrepreneurial fashion. Overall, the underlying idea is to provide some further basics for a public sector type of a design-oriented management science Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Problems and Questions....Pages 3-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Public Governance and Leadership: Outline of the Subject....Pages 11-40 Front Matter....Pages 41-41 Governance and the Public Interest: The Challenges for Public Sector Leaders....Pages 43-66 Modernes Regieren und Public Leadership....Pages 67-94 Blair and Governance....Pages 95-116 Navigating the Fragments: Political Dimensions of Managing Networked Public Service Delivery....Pages 117-129 The Problem of Politics: Public Governance and Leadership....Pages 131-149 Governance - Wandel als Lernprozess....Pages 151-171 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 Rebuilding Strategic Capacity? Multi-Level Governance, Leadership and Public Service Agreements in Britain....Pages 175-205 Coordination and Leadership at the Centre of the Australian Public Service....Pages 207-231 Das Konzept des aktivierenden Staates als deutsches Muster von Governance? - Zur Stabilität und zum Wandel von öffentlichen Institutionen....Pages 233-249 Reforming the Machinery of Government: The Case of the German Federal Bureaucracy....Pages 251-271 Leadership in Regional Cooperation....Pages 273-294 Finding a Focus for Local Political Leadership: Performance, Party, Public or Partners?....Pages 295-316 Front Matter....Pages 317-317 Leadership in a Managerial Context1....Pages 319-342 Politics-Management Relations in an Agency Context: The Case of Centrelink....Pages 343-364 Management Changes and Adapting Leadership Practices: The Case of the Shared Services Initiative of the Queensland State Government....Pages 365-393 Ansätze einer geänderten Verwaltungssteuerung in der Praxis....Pages 395-414 Wirkungsorientiertes Management in öffentlichen Dienstleistungseinheiten - Neue Anforderungen an die Führung....Pages 415-426 Front Matter....Pages 427-427 Turning Leadership into Performance Management....Pages 429-455 Front Matter....Pages 427-427 Personenbezogene Führung als Context Setting - Knee Deep in the Big Muddy?....Pages 457-484 Managing Motivation: Verhaltensannahmen und Personalsteuerung im New Public Management....Pages 485-511 Do Extrinsic Rewards Enhance Organizational Citizenship Behavior? A Study of Public Sector Organizations....Pages 513-534 Leadership and Ethics in a Managerialist Context....Pages 535-562 Front Matter....Pages 563-563 Success Factors in Implementing Contested Organisational Change - Learning from Private Sector Change Politics....Pages 565-588 We are proud to present the following collection of papers on Public Governance and Leadership. The idea behind this book goes back many years. It represents the culmination of a 15-year-long exchange between academics at German, Australian and British universities. Those deliberations inspired us to make Public Governance and Leadership the focus of this collection. Our challenge has been to identify and to bring together a group of internationally well known and renowned scholars to work on a variety of different aspects of this theme. Therefore, our thanks must first go to our contributors, all of whom worked with us to design and produce this compilation as a collective good. This work stands as evidence that very carefully built-up cross-cultural academic social capital can be used as a lever to create what we hope will be a very productive academic result. As editors we have our creditors. It goes without saying, but nevertheless it must be said, that in bringing a multi-national publication to press requires continuous excellent technical support. Our special thanks go to all the staff members and assistants who worked on this project from the Hamburg Helmut Schmidt University. We especially want to thank Ann-Christine Hasemann, who was most professional in her preparation of the manuscript in close co-operation with all the contributors and with the publisher. Any academic praise generated by the publication of this collection must be attributed to the efforts of the contributors. In this book, internationally renowned scholars and practitioners elaborate on political as well as managerial questions, e.g. how to make overriding Public Governance changes the 'guiding model' for a now needed stronger strategic approach. More specifically, their focus is on how moves towards a re-positioning as an enabling authority are to be made drivers for adapting management systems across all levels. In accordance with present developments, the authors explain how changes in the overall governance structure have to be used to adapt leadership practices in a more output-oriented or even entrepreneurial fashion. Overall, the underlying idea is to provide some further basics for a public sector type of a design-oriented management science.