Purpose Leadership has been known for its tremendous impact on employees' outcomes in
any organisation. Constructive leadership positively impacts employees, while destructive …

The advent of truly complex systems inside the last two decades has invalidated the
approach of now-antiquated risk management frameworks. Antiquated frameworks remain …

The tough-talking, take-charge, individualistic view of public leadership is alive and well
throughout the world, despite the enthusiasm of leadership scholars for more shared …

Government organisations, and their employees, need to be resilient to manage challenges
such as resource constraints, rising demands, and the tensions and contradictions that …

Complexity theory (CT) refers to a collection of concepts and heuristics that can be used to
study the developments emerging from interactions between phenomena, actors, and …

What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is
undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish some …

Scholars are increasingly seeking to develop theories that explain the underlying processes
whereby leadership is enacted. This shifts attention away from the actions of …

To date, practical and scholarly work on participatory and deliberative governance has
focused on supply-side issues such as how to engage citizens in public policy. Yet little is …

Yes, this is another book about leadership. I apologize. And to tell you the truth it has been
extremely hard to convince myself that the world really needed one, and that I had …

Although paradoxes are inherent to the public sector, few attempts have been made to better
understand how to manage such competing yet interrelated demands effectively. This study …