00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-8027295163992913322 Buklod 20250213100603.0 a r |||| u| ta 250206s2023 xxkad afr b 001 0 eng d 9780199552108 (hbd.) 22715000 Pu-30002 Php 10,650.00 DLC DCPA rda eng JF 1525 L4 D48 2023 Developing public service leaders elite orchestration, change agency, leaderism, and neoliberalization Mike Wallace, Michael Reed, Dermot O'Reilly, Michael Tomlinson, Jonathan Morris, Rosemary Deem. New York, NY Oxford University Press [2023] xxi, 362 pages illustrations 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. PART 1: DEVELOPING PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERS: AN ELITE POLICY 'META-LEVER'? 1. Leadership development for public services as a growth industry 2. Leadership development interventions in context: public service neoliberalization 3. Framing the enquiry: critical realism, an elite perspective, orchestrating change 4. The translation of leadership discourse to public services PART 2: 'BRITISH EXCEPTIONALISM' IN ACTION: LARGE-SCALE INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERS 5. Investigating an extreme case: national interventions to develop public service leaders 6. Elite orchestration of national leadership development interventions for public services 7. Elite orchestration and mediation of national leadership development provision 8. Elite mediation of acculturation: change agents for reform or professionalized leaders? PART 3: DEVELOPING PROFESSIONALIZED LEADERS FOR NEOLIBERALIZED PUBLIC SERVICES 9. Institutionalizing national leadership development interventions for English public services 10. the 'new normal': international investment in public service leadership development 11. Developing public service leaders: an elite 'weapon of mass distraction'? This book examines why and how governments and representative bodies for senior staff in public service organizations have mounted major interventions over the past two decades to develop senior staff as leaders. A critical explanation is developed of the foundational contribution made by national leadership development interventions in the 2000s to the emergence, proliferation, and normalization of leadership development provision. The authors carried out qualitative research in England, investigating the national leadership development interventions for school education, healthcare, and higher education. Political elites in government were concerned with acculturating senior staff to act as conduits for the implementation of regulated marketization reforms furthering the neoliberalization of public services, rendering them more business-like. Representative bodies for senior staff and participants in the provision were concerned to enhance individual capability and prospects for career advancement, rendering public service leadership more professional. Senior officials responsible for operating the interventions moderately subverted the interventions by focusing on generic leading activity. Senior staff were scarcely acculturated as government change agents but were acculturated towards complying with government-set performance standards and targets within its accountability regime. The authors explored the contemporary legacy of these interventions within the growing international movement to develop senior staff in public service organizations as leaders, comparing interventions in the United States of America (USA), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and England. They conclude that leadership development has widely acculturated senior staff as leaders, though not necessarily committed to acting as government change agents. Leadership development makes a diffuse contribution towards the ongoing neoliberalization of public services. Provided by publisher Leadership. Development leadership. Public administration. Manpower planning. Wallace, Mike author. Reed, Michael author. O'Reilly, Dermot author. Tomlinson, Michael author. Morris, Jonathan author. Deem, Rosemary author. FO UPD DCPA JF 1525 L4 D48 2023 Book