Leadership in public organizations : an introduction /
Montgomery Van Wart with Paul Suino.
- Third edition
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- ix, 438 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I: Theories and Approaches to Leadership -- Understanding Theories of Leadership and Leadership Styles -- Early Management, Trait, Stratified Systems, and Transactional Theories of Leadership -- Charismatic and Transformational Approaches -- Distributed Approaches to Leadership -- Ethics-Based Leadership Theories -- Leadership Approaches Focusing on Influence, Attribution, and a Changing Environment -- Competency-Based Leadership Approaches -- Part II: Applied Leadership Competencies -- Traits that Contribute to Leader Effectiveness -- Skills that Contribute to Leader Effectiveness -- Assessments by Leaders and the Goals to Which They Lead -- Task-Oriented Behaviors -- People-Oriented Behaviors -- Organization-Oriented Behaviors -- Leadership Development and Evaluation
Now in a complete revised and updated Third Edition, Leadership in Public Organizations provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practitioners who work in public and nonprofit organizations. Offering a comprehensive review of leadership theories in the field, from the classic to the cutting-edge, and how they relate specifically to the public sector context, this textbook covers the major competency clusters in detail, supported by research findings as well as practical guidelines for improvement. These competencies are graphically portrayed in a leadership action cycle that aids readers in visually connecting theory and practice. Including questions for discussion and analysis and hypothetical scenarios for each chapter, as well as an easily reproducible leadership assessment instrument students may use to apply the theories they've learned, this Third Edition also explores: *The rise of e-leadership, or the relationship between leadership and information and communication technologies, as well as the role leaders play in selecting those technologies *The challenges of nonprofit management leadership, including an extensive case study designed to illustrate the differences between public and nonprofit sector leadership curricula *Separate, dedicated chapters on charismatic and transformational leadership; distributed leadership; ethics-based leadership; and power, world cultures, diversity, gender, complexity, social change, and strategy.