Leadership of public bureaucracies : the administrator as conservator
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Leadership of public bureaucracies : the administrator as conservator
(Advances in public administration)
Sage Publications, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Leadership within public administration is stuck in the `no-man's-land' between political science and organization theory. On the one hand organization theorists promote their particular brand of transformational leadership - the leader sets the basic values of the firm and heroically shapes the culture of the organization. On the other hand political scientists treat public management as a prescribed regiment of strict obedience to elected officials - without values or heroism. This book offers an alternative well-reasoned and viable basis upon which to construct a concept of leadership which is directly and immediately relevant to the practising public administrator.
Table of Contents
Foreword - Douglas F Morgan
Series Editor's Introduction - Henry D Kass
Bureaucratic Leadership in a Democratic Republic
A Model of Administrative Conservatorship
Conserving Mission
Conserving Values
Conserving Support
The Administrator as Conservator
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