Action Learning, Leadership and Organizational Development in Public Services
- 226 pages
- English
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Action Learning, Leadership and Organizational Development in Public Services
About this book
Unprecedented investment is being made in leadership development across the public sector: leadership courses are growing, and development is a core theme of organizational capacity building initiatives. Within this, action learning has attracted increasing interest as an approach that can simultaneously address individual and organizational development.
An impressive and scholarly collection, this book collates important examples and considers the evidence for action learning's effectiveness. An important read for postgraduate students and researchers of human resources, training and development, this important book draws important insights to raise new questions concerning the role of the facilitator, the value of a 'bilingual' ability with public service issues and facilitation, comparisons with coaching and mentoring, and implications for employing action learning in a politicized or hierarchical environment and on a consultancy basis.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Developing public service leadership
- Section I Context
- 2 New public policy paradigm – new leadership
- 3 Optimizing the power of learning within action learning
- 4 Understanding the organizational potential of action learning
- Section II Practice
- 5 Local authority chief executive action learning sets
- 6 Learning and leading
- 7 The design and evaluation of a leadership programme for experienced chief executives from thehealthsector
- Section III Practice
- 8 Levels of action learning, and holding groups to the experience
- 9 Developing ourselves as police leaders
- 10 Supporting organizational turnaround in local authorities
- Section IV Practice
- 11 Developing public service leaders through action inquiry
- 12 Partnership action learning
- 13 Action learning in inter-organizational sets
- Section V Conclusion
- 14 Action learning in the public service system
- References