Public sector leadership : a human-centred approach / Petri Virtanen, Marika Tammeaid and Harri Jalonen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Virtanen, Petri, author.

Jalonen, Harri, author.

Tammeaid, Marika, author.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Leadership Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"Drawing its origins from Human Relations movement of the early 20th century and from public leadership orientations emphasizing human aspects, human-centred public leadership approaches leadership from a system's perspective. It explores societal institutions, organizations, and phenomena as an emergent system structure that manifests its existence through the multilateral and reciprocal interaction of its parts. Systems thinking and the need for systemic change suggest that one can only understand improve a system by looking at how all the parts interact with each other and how they are integrated. The systemic nature of public leadership refers to dynamic learning mechanisms as they relate to the contents of leadership development tools which are derived mainly from the changing mode of the operating environment, from the leaders' own experience, from their own personalities, from a learning-by-doing approach to leadership development and from the ways in which leaders learn and unlearn. This book presents key concepts, approaches, origins, applications, and best practices to understand the evolution and nature of human-centred approach in public leadership. It introduces a new public leadership paradigm that is needed in a complex, internationally interconnected social, economic, cultural, and political environment. Based on scholarly public leadership research in addition to the authors' professional experience as academics, managers, practitioners and consultants, this volume offers guidance for decisionmakers, public, business, and non-governmental sector leaders, managers, and practitioners about how to create a context and contents for human-centred leadership in the age of complex society and turbulent operating environment. It will be of value to researchers, academics, and students in the in the fields of leadership and public management"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

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Contents

Preface

1 Introduction

1.1 Why this book?

1.2 The societal and organisational context of public leadership

1.3 Key concepts

1.4 Rationale

1.5 Plan for this book

2 The roots of human-centredness in public leadership

2.1 Human values

2.2 Organisation as a value frame

2.3 The origins of organisational human-centredness

2.4 The way to Hawthorne and beyond

2.5 From the service user perspective to human-centred public service leadership

2.6 Synthesis-human-centred public leadership in the service of society

3 The evolution of public management systems and public leadership

3.1 The logic of intentional acts

3.2 Leadership styles inspired by humanism

3.3 The diversity of public management and political-administrative systems

3.4 The evolution of public sector leadership theory and practice

3.5 'Human-centred' reflections in public service delivery

3.6 Human-centredness and multiple accountabilities

3.7 The dissolution of public office as a physical space-the European and Nordic context

3.8 The accelerating rise of digital algorithmic bureaucracy

3.9 Human-centred public leadership as a science: the emergence of new research 'hot-spots' and divergent research methodologies

3.10 Synthesis-public leadership as a human-centred system

4 The systemic nature of society as the context for human-centred public leadership

4.1 Systemic nature of change

4.2 Has societal complexity really increased?

4.3 Dealing with complexity

4.4 From pieces to phenomena

4.5 The many faces of resilience

4.6 Complexity-informed interpretation of societal resilience and public leadership

4.7 Synthesis-the nature of current complexity in public policies and leadership.

5 Nurturing human-centredness through public leadership meta-skills

5.1 Increasing importance of meta-skills

5.2 Origins and the evolution of leadership meta-skills

5.3 Public leadership meta-skills typology

5.4 Public leaders' narratives about leadership meta-skills

5.5 Support structures for cross-sectoral leadership

5.6 Synthesis-public leadership meta-skills provide a passage to navigate complex leadership contexts

6 Reforming government through human-centredness

6.1 Diversity and uncertainty lead to 'muddling through'

6.2 Government reform as tackling tame and wicked problems with evidence

6.3 Government reform as an epistemic work

6.4 Government reform as human-centred sensemaking

6.5 Government reform as human-centred diversity

6.6 Government reform as human-centred responsive interaction

6.7 Government reform as value proposition

6.8 Human-centred leadership as interactive practice

6.9 Synthesis-the dimensions of human-centredness in reforming government

7 Reforming public leadership through learning

7.1 Updating the assumptions around teaching and learning

7.2 Developing meta-skills

7.3 Developing public organisations through learning

7.4 Synthesis-learning as an integral part of human-centred leadership development

8 The essence of public leadership builds upon human-centredness

8.1 The evolution of human-centred organisational behaviour

8.2 The evolution of human-centred public leadership

8.3 Human-centredness in public leadership: a generic causal-chain model

8.4 Synthesis: public leadership as a catalyst for human-centredness in society

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-320579-8

1-003-20579-8

1-000-79828-3

9781003205791

OCLC:

1348139756