Public Leadership for the 21st Century Delivering ‘Public Value’ through Entrepreneurship, Engagement and Rigour

Governance researchers are increasingly interested in how co-creation can contribute to promoting public value in contemporary liberal democracies. While many have already argued for the potential benefits of employing co-creation in government strategies aiming to enhance public value, few have considered the implications of such a strategy for public leadership. Drawing on recent strands of theory on leadership and management, we specify how public leaders can use co-creation as a tool to achieve policy goals, and we illustrate this specification by showing how politicians and public and non-profit managers perform the public leadership of co-created public value in Gentofte, Denmark and Minneapolis‐St Paul, USA. The main proposition is that this kind of public leadership does not only involve a strategic effort to engage, inspire and mobilise actors with relevant governance assets ‐ including legitimacy, authority and capabilities ‐ but also to align their understandings of what is valuable for the public.

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Public administration, public leadership and the construction of public value in the age of the algorithm and ‘big data’

Public Administration ◽

10.1111/padm.12534 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 97 (2) ◽

pp. 296-310 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Leighton Andrews

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Public Administration ◽

Public Value ◽

Public Leadership

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Has public leadership as we know it reached the end of its shelf life? Exploring leadership styles in the 21st century

Teaching Public Administration ◽

10.1177/0144739420974737 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 014473942097473

Author(s):

Liezel Lues

Keyword(s):

Shelf Life ◽

Leadership Styles ◽

21St Century ◽

Qualitative Review ◽

The Public ◽

Public Leadership ◽

Traditional Leadership ◽

Considerable Impact ◽

Public Leaders ◽

Broad Understanding

In this article, the aim is to question the relevance of well-known public leadership styles to the 21st century. The aim is buoyed by the notion that traditional leadership styles, even more so conventional ways of leading, will no longer ensure success, as 21st-century risks have had a considerable impact on the role and disposition of the public leader. The article draws on a qualitative review of academic papers and articles, documentary materials, surveys, and reports. An analysis of this material is used to gain a broad understanding of how public leadership styles are transforming under the impetus of the 21st century. The discussion is based on the challenges that public leaders are likely to face over the next decade, the pacesetters for public leaders to transform in the 21st century, and recommendations guiding public leadership styles for the 21st century.

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Creating Public Innovation Through Public Values (Public Value) Case Study In Education Department City Of Surabaya

Iapa Proceedings Conference ◽

10.30589/proceedings.2018.201 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 280

Author(s):

Supriyanto Supriyanto

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Organizational Capacity ◽

Community Support ◽

Visionary Leadership ◽

Public Values ◽

Public Value ◽

The Public ◽

Public Leadership ◽

Public Sector Innovation

This article will examine in depth the concept of public sector innovation, the process of creating public sector innovation and whether it is based on the public value. As a study material the author specializes in innovations created by the Surabaya City Education Office because there are seventeen innovations produced. Most innovations in the public sector are created as a reaction to a crisis when new leaders want to show that they are capable. Consequently the public sector innovation is not able to increase organizational capacity so that innovation tends to be unsustainable. Innovation will stop when the initiator is gone, so visionary leadership and innovation are needed to have compatibility with the system outside of itself and in harmony with relevant regulations and institutions. Innovation will remain sustainable without being influenced by the change of public leadership if it is sourced from public value because public innovations that are created from public values will remain strong to defend and the tendency is increased due to community support.

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