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STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES IN QUALITY LEADERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

To fill the need for leaders and change agents throughout all levels of federal agencies, public sector human resource managers are now called on to develop innovative leadership development programs. Developing leaders for the 21st century requires attention to workforce trends as well as flexibility and creativity. Federal government leadership concerns of public agency managers, including creative thinking, collaboration, and cross-organizational team building and leading for results.

Do Leadership Training and Development Make a Difference in the Public Sector? A Panel Study

Public Administration Review, 2016

Although significant progress has been made in developing leadership theory and understanding the traits, skills, behaviors, and styles that make a good leader, progress in bridging the gap between theory and practice using models of leadership training and development has been slow. This research attempts to answer the question of whether leadership training and development programs in the public sector improve leader and organizational performance. The findings indicate that a combination of coaching, classroom instruction, feedback, and experiential training has a significant impact on leader performance. In addition, organizational effectiveness improves for organizations whose leaders received the intervention. This article enhances our understanding of the impact that training and development can have on leader and organizational outcomes. Practitioner Points • Leadership training and development programs are worthwhile investments for public organizations. • Leadership training programs that combine coaching, classroom instruction, feedback, and experiential training can improve the performance of leaders. • Such multifaceted training programs can also result in higher performance for public organizations that adopt them.

Quality Leadership in the Public Sector : Strategies and Challenges

2011

To fill the need for leaders and change agents throughout all levels of federal agencies, public sector human resource managers are now called on to develop innovative leadership development programs. Developing leaders for the 21st century requires attention to workforce trends as well as flexibility and creativity. Federal government leadership concerns of public agency managers, including creative thinking, collaboration, and crossorganizational team building and leading for results.

Public sector leadership: new perspectives for research and practice

International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2013

In this article, we aim to portray the state of the art in public sector leadership in order to recommend directions for research and training practice. To this end, we review the scattered strands of literature on public sector leadership (PSL) and classify them in a single framework. The results of the study suggest that public sector leadership is emerging as a distinctive and autonomous domain in public administration/public management studies, although the debate is still underdeveloped compared to business administration studies. Leadership skills truly do matter in improving the performance of public sector organizations, and it is highly likely that the optimum leadership style is an integrated one: Public sector leaders should behave mainly as transformational leaders, moderately leveraging transactional relationships with their followers and heavily leveraging the importance of preserving integrity and ethics in the fulfillment of tasks.