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ILA members publish on the topic of leadership
from a variety of perspectives. We are pleased to feature
a selection of these publications on our Web site.
On occasion we may feature a publication written by someone
who is not currently a member if we feel it is of particular
interest to our members. Follow the links below to learn
more about each work and download complete chapters. If
you have a recent publication and would like to be featured
on these pages, please contact the ILA at
ila@ila-net.org.
Public Sector Leadership: International
Challenges and Perspectives
Jeffrey Raffel, Peter
Leisink, and Anthony Middlebrooks, Eds.
ILA Members,
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read an interview with editors Jeffrey Raffel and Anthony
Middlebrooks in the January 2010 Member Connector
A truly international examination of public
sector leadership, this book explores the ways leaders of
developed nations are addressing current challenges. The
overriding question explored by the authors is how public
leadership across the globe addresses new challenges (such
as security, financial, demographic), new expectations of
leaders, and what public sector leadership means in the
new era. The book allows the reader to view a large number
of situations across the globe to better understand the
relation between context and leadership. It integrates the
two fields of leadership and public administration, providing
a wide-ranging and complementary empirical context to the
topic. Transcending state-centered perspectives, the authors
include new developments in governance and public-private
sector collaboration while retaining a focus on the public
values involved. The chapters address public sector leadership
issues in a wide array of nations, integrating international
perspectives with a globally diverse authorship. Several
chapters address issues of collaboration across sectors,
changing roles in the New Public Management paradigm, and
corresponding new visions of leadership. Several of the
chapters are explicitly comparative, including a study of
mental health leadership training topics in eight nations,
central banking in Europe, and efficiency studies in Britain,
Denmark, and Norway. The chapters can be used as thought-provoking
case studies as part of a supplemental text, and are accompanied
by substantial bibliographies. Scholars, students, and practitioners
in leadership, public policy and administration, and organization
studies will find this volume a useful reference.
Chapter 17: Is Public Sector Leadership
Distinct?
The federal government in Canada
is confronting a severe public sector human resources
challenge. Not only has working in the public sector
become much more complex, but the public service is
also facing a number of new pressures that threaten
its ability to fulfill its role as a ‘vital national
institution’ that can meet the needs of Canadians (Clerk
2006, p. 1). Specifically the challenge is to recruit
and retain the best and the brightest to work in the
public sector at a time when governments are trying
to hire in a much more competitive labor market, the
Canadian population is becoming much more diverse and
the demand for new employees with the ability to lead
others, particularly at the most senior levels, is so
great. The reality is that the majority of federal public
sector employees are over 45 years of age, whereas fi
fteen years ago the converse was true. The situation
is equally dire at the executive level: about three-quarters
of all public service executives are between the ages
of 45 and 59, with an average age over 50. Furthermore
nearly 20 percent of this group is currently eligible
to retire (Clerk 2007, p. 39).
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Jeffrey
Raffel is the Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware. He served as director of the school for ten years, was the co-founder and first director of the Delaware Academy for School Leadership, and led the integration of the undergraduate leadership program into the school. He has conducted research on state and local management as well as educational policy issues and has served as chair of COPRA, the U.S. accrediting agency for masters programs in public affairs.
Anthony Middlebrooks is Assistant Professor in the Leadership Program in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware. He helped develop the doctoral program in leadership as a professor at Cardinal Stritch University, and spent ten years prior in non-profit leadership positions, culminating in writing, consulting, and presenting on a variety of leadership topics. Currently, he teaches courses in leadership theory, decision-making, organizational leadership, and research methodology.
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