| Autor: |
Tripathi, Smita, Dixon, John |
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International Journal of Leadership in Public Services; Oct2008, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p4-14, 11p |
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At the heart of any public-sector reform discourse are the conflicting contentions about what constitutes good public leadership. The battles fought -- and to be fought -- over public-sector reform are over the appropriate role of the state. These contending perspectives are the traditional hierarchical model and the neo-liberal managerialist model of public administration. The aspiration to build a responsive and cost-effective public sector that appropriately balances public and private interests inevitably confronts the challenge of how best to impose neo-liberal managerialist values and practices onto a hierarchical politico-administrative system, grounded on the premise that the state is best placed to determine, protect and promote the public interest, without inevitably creating a counter-productive paradoxical public-management environment. In this public-sector reform scenario, it is necessary to foster a form of leadership -- both political and organisational -- that demands of itself that it be capable of perpetual adaption in the face of ambiguity and which change. That is a great deal to ask of both shrewd politicians and consummate bureaucrats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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