The New Public Leadership Challenge

1. A New Public Leadership Challenge?
Stephen Brookes, Keith Grint

Part I. Public Sector Reform and the Impact on Leadership

2. Central Government Reform and Leadership
Colin Talbot

3. Healthcare Reform and Leadership
Kieran Walshe, Naomi Chambers

4. Education Reform and School Leadership
Helen Gunter, Gillian Forrester

5. Policing, New Public Management and Legitimacy
Mike Hough

6. Local Government Reform and Political Leadership
Peter John

7. Guns or Gantt Charts? — The Leadership Challenge for UK Defence
Mike Dunn

Part II. Essential Features of Public Leadership

8. What Do We Expect of Public Leaders?
Lord Turnbull

9. Political Leadership
Jean Hartley

10. Telling the Story of Place: The Role of Community Leadership
Stephen Brookes

11. Wicked Problems and Clumsy Solutions: The Role of Leadership
Keith Grint

12. Knowledge and Capabilities for Leadership Across the Whole Public Service System
John Benington, Jean Hartley

13. The Challenge of Change for Public Sector Leaders
Carina Paine Schofield, Mark Pegg

Part III. Public Leadership in Action?

14. Testing Adaptive Leadership Theory in Practice: The Policing of the Drumcree Demonstrations in Northern Ireland
Irwin Turbitt, John Benington

15. Leadership of Change Narratives: An Alternative Voice
Mervyn Conroy

16. Section 17 Crime and Disorder Act 1998: A Missed Opportunity for Public Leadership?
Kate Moss

17. Partnerships: Rhetoric or Reality?
Sue Goss, Paul Tarplett

Part IV. Outlining a Public Leadership Approach

18. The Challenge for Public Leadership Arising from Mixed Modes of Governance
Dominique Lelièvre-Finch

19. The Challenge of Leadership for the Third Sector
Alex Murdock

20. Can Public Leadership be Evaluated?
Nick Tilley

21. Epilogue Reform, Realisation and Restoration: Public Leadership and Innovation in Government
Stephen Brookes

Keywords: Business and Management, Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Public Finance