Action Learning, Leadership and Organizational Development in Public Services (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rigg, Clare; Richards, Sue

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the role of action learning in developing organization and leadership capacity in public services, this informative book comprises an edited collection of chapters on a range of themes that draw from a variety of public services.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134192885
• Artikelnr.: 42675623

Autorenporträt

Clare Rigg is Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Social Studies at the Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland. She previously worked at the University of Birmingham's School of Public Policy and has used action learning and action research on a variety of organization development, leadership and management development programmes. Sue Richards is Director of the Centre for Strategic Leadership at the National School of Government, London. She has performed a number of advisory and governance roles in relation to public service, having been a special advisor to various parliamentary select committees, an Audit Commissioner and a member of the Advisory Board of the Office of Public Services Reform.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Developing Public Service Leadership - The Context for Action Learning
Part 1: Context 2. The Policy Context for Public Service Leadership 3.
Optimizing the Power of Learning within Action Learning 4. Understanding
the Organizational Potential of Action Learning Part 2: Practice 5. Local
Authority Chief Executive Action Learning Sets 6. Learning and Leading;
Action Learning for Chief Probation Officers 7. The Design and Evaluation
of a Leadership Programme for Experienced Chief Executives from the Health
Sector 8. Levels of Action Learning, and Holding Groups to the Experience
9. Developing Ourselves as Police Leaders: How Can we Inquire
Collaboratively in a Hierarchical Organization? 10. Supporting
Organizational Turnaround in Local Authorities Networks and Partnerships -
Developing the Public Policy System 11. Developing Public Service Leaders
through Action Inquiry 12. Partnership Action Learning 13. Action Learning
in Inter-Organizational Sets Part 3: Conclusion 14. Action Learning in the
Public Service System: Issues, Tensions and a Future Agenda