Is Public Sector Leadership Distinct? A Comparative Analysis of Core Competencies in the Senior Executive Service

Cultural Values and Its Influence on the Enactment of Leadership in Public Sector Organisations

“…The findings of this study also have important implications for private sector leaders migrating to public sector organisations specifically surrounding the issue of transparency and performance appraisal system. In various studies by Mau (2009Mau ( , 2017Mau ( , 2020 this study also illuminates the policy or managerial implications for future research agenda. Key breakthrough solutions for the public sector like those highlighted by Mau (2002), for example, mentioning for the human resource management (HRM) practices that could help in selecting, training and developing the right person for the leadership position who even with rigid structure of the public sector, the rules and regulations persistence, but with the charisma and ethics could have led to changes in work behaviour and bring about customer-orientation to the public sector employees to be more focused on their effective services to the clientele.…”

Ademographic and career profile of municipalCAOsinCanada: Implications for local governance

“…Siegel () has cogently articulated the need for leadership amongst this group of key local administrators and our own research has highlighted the shift in the role and function of the municipal CAO over time, noting that the ability to lead is as critical as the ability to manage. Public sector leadership competencies have been implemented with some degree of success in other jurisdictions (Mau ), but is it possible to embrace the use of competencies for hiring and evaluating municipal CAOs? While it is not feasible for all municipalities, especially the thousands of smaller ones, to develop their own competency profiles for their senior executives, there may be a role for the provincial governments or the various professional associations at the provincial and/or national level to drive such a process.…”

Public sector leadership: An emerging subfield with tremendous research potential

“…Much of the research in this stream focuses on leadership training and development, including the use of competency models for identifying the knowledge, skills and abilities associated with effective leadership. Mau (, ) has published on public sector leadership competency frameworks, while Glenn () reports on the use of talent management systems more broadly within the Canadian federal and provincial public services. While the research by Mau introduces the Canadian leadership competency framework to the published work in this area, his main contribution is doing so in comparative perspective.…”