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Social bonds to city hall : how appointed managers enter, experience, and leave their jobs in western local government / edited by Peter Dahler-Larsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City managers.
- Municipal government by city manager.
- Local government.
- Civil service.
- Public administration.
- Comparative government.
- Physical Description:
- 162 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Odense : Odense University Press ; Portland, OR, USA : Distribution in the United States and Canada [by] International Specialized Book Services, 2002.
- Contents:
- CEOs and Their Bonds to City Hall - a Thematic and Methodological Introduction 9
- Chapter 1 The Glass Cage: the Institutional Structure Around the Position of Municipal CEO 21
- Chapter 2 Changes in Required Qualifications for CEOs: an Analysis of Job Postings 30
- Chapter 3 Background and Recruitment Characteristics of European CEOs 45
- Chapter 4 Beyond the City Hall: Municipal Administrative Leadership and Local Community 51
- Chapter 5 Values of Local Government CEOs in Job Motivation: How Do CEOs See the Ideal Job? 57
- Chapter 6 Playing by the Rules in Portuguese Local Government: Interpretations of the Discourse of Administrative Leadership 76
- Chapter 7 Actors, Structures, and Rules: the Life of Danish CEOs 89
- Chapter 8 Threats and Challenges in the Organizational Environment Affecting the CEO 101
- Chapter 9 Leaving the Job as CEO 117
- Participants in the U.Di.T.E. Leadership Study 146.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [148]-162).
- ISBN:
- 8778386179
- OCLC:
- 50053128
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