Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction

Book Details

• Author: Montgomery Van Wart

• Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

• Edition: 3

• Binding: Paperback

• Number of Pages: 438

• Release Date: 01-03-2017

• EAN: 9780765647023

• Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 1.0 inches

• Languages: English

Book Description
Now in a completely revised and updated Third Edition, Leadership in Public Organizations provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practitioners who work in public and nonprofit organizations. Offering a comprehensive review of leadership theories in the field, from the classic to the cutting-edge, and how they relate specifically to the public sector context, this textbook covers the major competency clusters in detail, supported by research findings as well as practical guidelines for improvement. These competencies are graphically portrayed in a leadership action cycle that aids readers in visually connecting theory and practice.

The book includes questions for discussion and analysis, hypothetical scenarios for each chapter, and an easily reproducible leadership assessment instrument students can use to apply the theories they’ve learned. This edition also explores:

• The rise of e-leadership, or the relationship between leadership and information and communication technologies, as well as the role leaders play in selecting those technologies

• The challenges of nonprofit management leadership, with an extensive case study designed to illustrate the differences between public and nonprofit sector leadership curricula

• Separate, dedicated chapters on charismatic and transformational leadership; distributed leadership; ethics-based leadership; and power, world cultures, diversity, gender, complexity, social change, and strategy.

Leadership in Public Organizations is an essential core text for upper-level and graduate Public Administration courses on leadership, and it has also proven an indispensable guidebook for professionals seeking insight into the role of successful leadership behavior in the public sector.