scholarly journals Fast-track leadership development programmes: the new micro-philanthropy of future elites

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Duggan
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Social Imaginaries ◽  
The Public

The chapter contributes to discussions on public sector fast-track leadership schemes as an elite re-professionalising project that occurs within and across different domains of the public sector. An aim of Teach First is to create a ‘movement of leaders’ to end educational inequality through societal change. The chapter explores the path of one Teach First ambassador as he developed an equivalent fast-track scheme in social work called Frontline. Drawing on Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem represented to be approach, the chapter explores how entry routes into the teaching profession are being transformed into processes for encouraging the emergence of individuals who are able to successfully develop initiatives that mobilise representations of complex social problems in line with elite and neoliberalising social imaginaries. In particular the discourses and practices of transformational leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation functioned to individualise and individuate explanations, representations and responses to complex social problems.

scholarly journals Transformational leadership in the South African public service after the April 2009 national elections

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manasseh M. Mokgolo ◽  
Patricia Mokgolo ◽  
Mike Modiba
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Full Time ◽  
National Elections ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unstable Environment

Orientation: The implementation of transformational leadership in public services after national elections has been well recorded in other parts of the world. However, this is not the case in South Africa. Research purpose: The purpose of the study is to determine whether transformational leadership has a beneficial relationship with subordinate leadership acceptance, job performance and job satisfaction.Motivation for the study: Leadership is a critical issue that the public sector needs to address in order to survive and succeed in today’s unstable environment. According to Groenewald and Ashfield (2008), transformational leadership could reduce the effects of uncertainty and change that comes with new leaders and help employees to achieve their objectives.Research design, approach and method: The sample comprised 1050 full-time employees in the public sector based in head offices. The measuring instruments included the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), the Leadership Acceptance Scale (LAS), the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) and the Job Performance Survey (JPS).Main findings: Transformational leadership had a positive correlation with subordinate leadership acceptance, performance and job satisfaction.Practical/managerial implications: Managers can train public sector leaders to be transformational leaders because of the adverse effect lack of transformation can have on employees’ attitudes in areas like satisfaction, performance and commitment.Contribution/value-add: This study makes an important contribution to our understanding of transformational leadership processes and to how the public service can improve its practices in order to render quality service to South Africans.

Teaching Implementation Analysis

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-14
Author(s):  
Patricia McGee Crotty
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
The State ◽  
Organizational Success ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Agencies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Implementation Analysis ◽  
Environmental Agency

Before entering the teaching profession, I served as the administrator of an environmental agency, a lobbyist, and a policy advisor in the state of Pennsylvania. These experiences made me aware of the need for practical suggestions on how to improve bureaucratic effectiveness and measure organizational success. My research interests focus on developing quantitative measures of implementation efforts and applying these measures to administrative agencies. I believe this approach to studying administration will become increasingly important in the future because it concentrates on measuring productivity and can be adapted to the private as well as the public sector.

User involvement in social work innovation: A systematic and narrative review

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 730-750
Author(s):  
Maja Müller ◽  
Signe Pihl-Thingvad
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovation Processes

Summary This article focuses on user involvement in social work innovations in the public sector and provides an overview of how public innovation via user involvement in social work has been studied to date. Through analyses based on a systematic review combined with a narrative review of the identified literature, we offer a typology of social work innovations. The article concludes by discussing possibilities and barriers inherent in user involvement in social work and suggesting topics for future research. Findings Through a systematic review we identify the relevant literature describing different kinds of user involvement in social work innovation. In the narrative review, we analyze the literature and identify three types of innovation: user-centered innovation, co-produced innovation, and citizen-driven innovation. With empirical examples we illustrate the different types of innovation and the citizen’s role in the different innovation processes. Application The typology provides an analytic tool to differentiate types of innovation and user involvement, but it may also function as inspiration to practitioners to reflect more about the roles of users and frontline workers and to be more aware of existing barriers when designing new social initiatives in the public sector.

scholarly journals En domänteori för organisering av socialt arbete i offentlig sektor

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Morén ◽  
Marek Perlinski ◽  
Björn Blom
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Domain Theory ◽  
International Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Policy Domain

A domain theory for the organization of social work in the public sector The article presents outlines of a domain theory for the organization of social work in the public sector. e aim is to describe – from a Nordic perspective – how social workers’ professional prac- tice is shaped by local level politics and administration, and how such shaping processes at the local level are conditioned and controlled by general structural and institutional conditions at the national and international level. We argue that public sector arenas for social work are constituted by three domains with different tasks and logics, yet interconnected and interdependent: the policy domain, the domain of administration and the profession’s domain. Organizations at the local level – constituted by the three domains and their respective logics – are, in turn, conditioned by a fourth domain: the domain of institutional conditions. The latter domain is about control ideals, norms, knowledge, epistemological approaches and technologies prevailing in society, legitimized and disseminated by central institutions that affect how local level organizations operate.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Succession Planning, Transformational Leadership, Training Satisfaction Terhadap Turnover Intention Karyawan Pada Sektor Publik Kementerian Agama Jakarta Pusat

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Amelia Wanggi ◽  
Mutiara Panggabean ◽  
Tiara Puspa
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
Employee Turnover Intention ◽  
Training Satisfaction ◽  
And Training

This study tries to analyze the effect of succession planning, transformational leadership, training satisfaction on employee turnover intention in the public sector of the Central Jakarta Ministry of Religion. Responding to this study, an experiment of 120 respondents from the Central Jakarta Ministry of Religion staffing company. The sampling method uses purposive sampling and uses descriptive statistical data analysis methods (average) and multiple regression analysis. In this research, succession planning, transformational leadership, and training satisfaction, were obtained negatively towards company turnover intention in the public sector, especially succession planning. From the results of this study, it was agreed by the leadership of the company to pay more attention to succession planning or management of employee talents, allow and add training and coaching for future leaders to be more transformational to provide beneficial investments in terms of employee career development.

Developing medical leadership in India: A mission impossible?

BMJ Leader ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. leader-2020-000217
Author(s):  
Kamal Gulati ◽  
Ian Kirkpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Medical Leadership

PurposeGlobally, there have been calls to enhance medical leadership in healthcare, although we know little about how this objective has been pursued in low-income middle-income contexts such as India. This paper highlights the opportunities to strengthen leadership in this context, while also considering the obstacles to this change and how they might be overcome.MethodsThe paper draws on a review of available secondary sources including published journal articles in the academic and grey literature, reports published by the Indian government and transnational organisations. The search focused specifically on medical leadership, clinical leadership, management and governance in the Indian healthcare system.FindingsIndia is currently in the throes of the world’s biggest experiment in universal healthcare popularly known as ‘Modicare’. However, these reforms have been criticised with regard to the lack of solid healthcare management framework in the country. The current National Health Policy highlights the need for specialised ‘public health management cadre, human resource governance and leadership development’. Nevertheless, the available research highlights a gap in the research on this topic, specifically about the development of medical leadership competencies. Our findings highlight not only the opportunities to develop medical leadership but also the obstacles to this process. Inadequate training and education, spiralling workloads, low salaries in the public sector and a growing culture of kickbacks have all stifled attempts to engage more doctors in leadership roles.ConclusionsWhile the Indian government is now focusing more on the need to strengthen medical leadership, there are significant barriers to change. In future, building leadership capabilities will require deeper reforms in training, regulation and remuneration of doctors to generate sufficient incentives especially in the public sector.

Goal integration through transformational leadership

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwasi Dartey-Baah
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Transformational Leaders ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Goal Integration ◽  
Training Programmes

Purpose The purpose of this study was to present a conceptual analysis of how the issue of corruption in Ghana’s public sector can be curbed through an integration of individual (public sector worker) and organisational goals (the public sector itself). It further sought to explain this possibility by focusing on a goal integration process through transformational leadership. Design/methodology/approach To meet this end, the study conducted a review of literature on goal, goal-setting, corruption, employee motivation and transformational leadership to develop a conceptual framework to explain this link between goal integration through transformational leadership and corruption reduction. Findings Findings from this study showed that dissatisfaction with work (especially pay) amongst Ghana’s public sector workers is a major factor necessitating the emergence of corruption in the country. It is also shown in the study that through the transformational leadership approach, individual worker concerns such as concerns with pay (a facet of job satisfaction) when treated as an institutional concern and appropriately dealt with could curb corruption in the public sector. Research limitations/implications Based on these findings, the study recommends that leaders in Ghana’s public sector (both political and administrative) must exhibit qualities of transformational leaders to foster individual and organisational growth as a means to curb corruption in the sector. The study also recommends that training programmes be organised for leaders to equip them with the needed knowledge and practice of transformational leadership. Furthermore, the study recommends that further studies could be done by other researchers on the training programmes that could be useful in equipping these leaders, as well as how and when to organise these programmes. Originality/value The study is novel in that it demonstrates the relevance of integrating individual and organisational goals through the application of the transformational leadership concept as a tool for reducing corruption in Ghana’s public sector.

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