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Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector
Montgomery Van Van Wart (Ed.)
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Description for Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector
Paperback. Suitable as a resource for PA courses involving Leadership and Public Management, this book is organized around Van Wart's unique leadership assessment model, which provides a useful framework for understanding the vast subject of leadership. It includes readings on public leadership. Editor(s): Van Wart, Montgomery; Bernardino, San; Dicke, Lisa A. Num Pages: 464 pages, includes: tables, figures, bibliographic references, index. BIC Classification: JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 29. Weight in Grams: 839.
Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector is an ideal resource for any Public Administration course involving leadership and public management.
Each of the book’s nine main sections begins with introductory text by the volume’s editors, Monty Van Wart and Lisa Dicke, followed by relevant readings. The volume includes some of the most important readings on public leadership published in the last eight decades. More than just an anthology, Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector provides a unique and useful framework for understanding the vast subject of leadership.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
462
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780765613493
SKU
V9780765613493
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About Montgomery Van Van Wart (Ed.)
Montgomery (Monty) Van Wart is Professor and Chair at the University of California State University, San Bernardino. His scholarly work includes more than 40 publications, including five books and a substantial number of articles in leading journals. His research areas are administrative leadership, human resource management, training and development, administrative values and ethics, organization behavior, and general management. He has taught leadership classes to public sector managers for all levels of government in the US and abroad. He is the author of The Dynamics of Leadership: Theory and Practice (M.E. Sharpe, 2005). Lisa A. Dicke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of North Texas. Her teaching and research interests are in government accountability, nonprofit management and intersectoral relations. Dr. Dicke’s work has appeared in the American Review of Public Administration, Public Organization Review, Public Integrity, Public Productivity and Management Review, International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, the Journal of Public Affairs Education, and in several edited books.
Reviews for Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector
"Here is the best compilation you will find on leadership in public administration. The chapters provide an historical look at how leadership has been conceptualized, interpreted, studied, and applied. Readers seeking to grasp the state of the art in leadership studies in public service will find it here." - Mary E. Guy, Florida State University "This impressive new volume brings together in one place the most significant articles written by those in the field of public administration over the past decades. Not only does this collection include commentaries on leadership in the public sector - it demonstrates the contributions made in public administration to the study of leadership in general." - Robert B. Denhardt, Arizona State University"