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Research Handbook on Public Leadership
Re-imagining Public Leadership in a Post-pandemic Paradigm
9781786439666 Edward Elgar Publishing
Addressing the unprecedented challenges facing public leaders brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, this comprehensive Research Handbook reframes the public leadership debate by offering new ways of thinking about leadership practices. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars across the world, this insightful Research Handbook illustrates how the decisions made by global leaders today will have widespread consequences for future generations.
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Addressing the unprecedented challenges facing public leaders brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, this comprehensive Research Handbook reframes the public leadership debate by offering new ways of thinking about leadership practices.
Bringing together contributions from leading scholars across the world, this insightful Research Handbook illustrates how the decisions made by global leaders today will have widespread consequences for future generations. Chapters evaluate innovative leadership models including cooperative leadership and spiritual leadership, analyse international perspectives on leadership in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and discuss the role of public leadership in practice. Exploring important contemporary case studies including the issues of county lines in the UK and public leadership in the Small Island States of the Anglophone Caribbean (SIDS), it concludes by advocating for a new post-pandemic paradigm of public leadership.
Focusing on learning from the practices and experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Research Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars in business management, economics, public leadership, and public policy and politics. It will also be beneficial for civil servants, politicians, and leadership practitioners in healthcare, education, and non-public sectors.
Bringing together contributions from leading scholars across the world, this insightful Research Handbook illustrates how the decisions made by global leaders today will have widespread consequences for future generations. Chapters evaluate innovative leadership models including cooperative leadership and spiritual leadership, analyse international perspectives on leadership in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and discuss the role of public leadership in practice. Exploring important contemporary case studies including the issues of county lines in the UK and public leadership in the Small Island States of the Anglophone Caribbean (SIDS), it concludes by advocating for a new post-pandemic paradigm of public leadership.
Focusing on learning from the practices and experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Research Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars in business management, economics, public leadership, and public policy and politics. It will also be beneficial for civil servants, politicians, and leadership practitioners in healthcare, education, and non-public sectors.
Critical Acclaim
‘The single most important critical success factor I have encountered across policing and public sector service is leadership. This is borne out by the organisations that excel and those which fail. However we lead in a rapidly changing world where public services face multiple and overlapping crises, and leadership must evolve to adapt to this C21st context. The research book, edited by Stephen Brookes, is contemporary in its context and looks forward to what will succeed in the future as well as reflecting upon the lessons of the past. It will energise and provoke the thoughts of the most experienced leader as well as providing a deep well of knowledge for the newest leaders ambitious to do their best to make a positive difference to our society.’
– Andy Marsh, College of Policing, England and Wales
– Andy Marsh, College of Policing, England and Wales
Contributors
Contributors: Gareth Addidle, Omar Bawhab, Gary Beauchamp, Lawrence Benson, Stephen Brookes, Linda Clarke, Nick Clifford, Ayham Fattoum, Dennys Paola Fernandez, Nicolás García, Rune Glomseth, Damian E. Greaves, Lorna Hamilton, Janet Harvey, David Horsler, Moira Hulme, Umer Khan, Joyce Liddle, Chris Lim, Jillian McCarthy, Neil McLennon, Sebastian L. Schorch, Simon Turner, Sami Yousif
Contents
Contents:
Preface xi
PART I PUBLIC LEADERSHIP AS A NEW THEORETICAL
AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR LEADING
PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC
1 The challenges of leading in the public interest: a new
paradigm for public leadership in a post-pandemic world? 1
Stephen Brookes
2 Creating a new leadership model: cooperative leadership 23
Neil McLennan
3 Spiritual leadership: a new paradigm for a new normal 42
Jillian McCarthy
4 Reflections on the response to COVID-19: considerations for
managers and leaders 57
Ayham Fattoum
5 Challenges for school leadership and management in the
four nations of the United Kingdom during the pandemic:
conceptual shifts and implications for future thinking 80
Lorna Hamilton, Gary Beauchamp, Moira Hulme, Janet A. Harvey
and Linda Clarke
6 Relational leadership for leading public services in the
interests of the public 97
Joyce Liddle and Gareth Addidle
7 Public leadership in tackling wicked problems: is it a crisis of
leadership or a leadership crisis? 113
Lawrence Benson and Stephen Brookes
PART II INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON
LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
8 Police leadership in wicked times: how Norwegian police
leaders have experienced and responded to the Covid-19 pandemic 135
Rune Glomseth
9 The healthcare system in Saudi Arabia: evolution,
transformation and the COVID-19 experience 154
Sami Yousif and Omar Bawhab
10 Public leadership of Covid-19: documentary analysis of the
role of the Mayor’s Office in shaping policy responses in
Bogotá, Colombia 178
Simon Turner, Sebastian L. Schorch, Dennys Paola Fernandez and
Nicolás García
11 Assessing the efficacy of COVID-19 policies in the
Philippines: an analysis on the NPM-based approach to pandemics 196
Chris Lim
PART III PUBLIC LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE: THE
‘GOOD’, THE ‘BAD’ AND THE ‘DOWNRIGHT
UGLY’ OF PUBLIC LEADERSHIP
12 Reframing ‘place leadership’: an analysis of leadership in
responding to the wicked issue of county lines and criminality
within a context of post-pandemic public health policing 222
Joyce Liddle and Gareth Addidle
13 The role of consequential leadership in public crises through
multi-agency response 243
Umer Khan and Stephen Brookes
14 Organisational obstinacy: a case study from a large UK
metropolitan authority that provides a new model of paradigm change 262
Nick Clifford and David Horsler
15 Public leadership in the small island developing states of the
Anglophone Caribbean 285
Damian E. Greaves
16 Towards a collective public leadership manifesto:
opportunities and challenges in a post-pandemic paradigm 307
Stephen Brookes
Appreciative Inquiry Crown Sonnet 321
Ada Jo Mann
Index
Preface xi
PART I PUBLIC LEADERSHIP AS A NEW THEORETICAL
AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR LEADING
PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC
1 The challenges of leading in the public interest: a new
paradigm for public leadership in a post-pandemic world? 1
Stephen Brookes
2 Creating a new leadership model: cooperative leadership 23
Neil McLennan
3 Spiritual leadership: a new paradigm for a new normal 42
Jillian McCarthy
4 Reflections on the response to COVID-19: considerations for
managers and leaders 57
Ayham Fattoum
5 Challenges for school leadership and management in the
four nations of the United Kingdom during the pandemic:
conceptual shifts and implications for future thinking 80
Lorna Hamilton, Gary Beauchamp, Moira Hulme, Janet A. Harvey
and Linda Clarke
6 Relational leadership for leading public services in the
interests of the public 97
Joyce Liddle and Gareth Addidle
7 Public leadership in tackling wicked problems: is it a crisis of
leadership or a leadership crisis? 113
Lawrence Benson and Stephen Brookes
PART II INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON
LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
8 Police leadership in wicked times: how Norwegian police
leaders have experienced and responded to the Covid-19 pandemic 135
Rune Glomseth
9 The healthcare system in Saudi Arabia: evolution,
transformation and the COVID-19 experience 154
Sami Yousif and Omar Bawhab
10 Public leadership of Covid-19: documentary analysis of the
role of the Mayor’s Office in shaping policy responses in
Bogotá, Colombia 178
Simon Turner, Sebastian L. Schorch, Dennys Paola Fernandez and
Nicolás García
11 Assessing the efficacy of COVID-19 policies in the
Philippines: an analysis on the NPM-based approach to pandemics 196
Chris Lim
PART III PUBLIC LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE: THE
‘GOOD’, THE ‘BAD’ AND THE ‘DOWNRIGHT
UGLY’ OF PUBLIC LEADERSHIP
12 Reframing ‘place leadership’: an analysis of leadership in
responding to the wicked issue of county lines and criminality
within a context of post-pandemic public health policing 222
Joyce Liddle and Gareth Addidle
13 The role of consequential leadership in public crises through
multi-agency response 243
Umer Khan and Stephen Brookes
14 Organisational obstinacy: a case study from a large UK
metropolitan authority that provides a new model of paradigm change 262
Nick Clifford and David Horsler
15 Public leadership in the small island developing states of the
Anglophone Caribbean 285
Damian E. Greaves
16 Towards a collective public leadership manifesto:
opportunities and challenges in a post-pandemic paradigm 307
Stephen Brookes
Appreciative Inquiry Crown Sonnet 321
Ada Jo Mann
Index
