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Book SynopsisAddressing 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.
Trade Review‘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
Table of ContentsContents: 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
