Leadership through action learning: a bottom-up approach to ‘best practice’ in ‘infection prevention and control’ in a UK NHS trust

Kellie, Jean; Milsom, Brian; Henderson, Eileen

doi:10.1080/09540962.2012.691308

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“…Following Herbert Simon, the public administration discipline has been repeatedly labelled as a design science, but it has often failed to live up to that promise. Both in policy studies and in public management studies, we can find many examples of design thinking research (Kellie et al 2012;Iglesias, 2014), but this has generally not represented the mainstream of the field. The question about the essential characteristics and building blocks of a design thinking approach for public administration and public policy is still unanswered.…”

Section: Public Administration and Public Policy As A Design Science ...mentioning

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Improving public policy and administration: exploring the potential of design

Buuren,

Lewis,

Peters

et al. 2023

Policy-Making as Designing

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In recent years, design approaches to policymaking have gained popularity amongst policymakers. However, a critical reflection on their added value and on how contemporary 'design-thinking' approaches relates to the classical idea of public administration as a design science, is still lacking. This introductory paper reflects upon the use of design approaches in public administration. We delve into the more traditional ideas of design as launched by Simon and policy design, but also into the present-day design wave, stemming from traditional design sciences. Based upon this we distinguish between three ideal-type approaches of design currently characterizing the discipline: design as optimization, design as exploration and design as co-creation. More rigorous empirical analyses of applications of these approaches is necessary to further develop public administration as a design science. We reflect upon the question how a more designerly way of thinking can help to improve public administration and public policy.

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Section: Public Administration and Public Policy As A Design Science ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving public policy and administration: exploring the potential of design

Buuren,

Lewis,

Peters

et al. 2023

Policy-Making as Designing

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Section: Public Administration and Public Policy As A Design Science -The Next Stepsmentioning

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Improving public policy and administration: exploring the potential of design

Buuren

Lewis

Peters

et al. 2020

Policy &Amp; Politics

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In recent years, design approaches to policymaking have gained popularity among policymakers. However, a critical reflection on their added value and on how contemporary ‘design-thinking’ approaches relates to the classical idea of public administration as a design science, is still lacking. This introductory paper reflects upon the use of design approaches in public administration. We delve into the more traditional ideas of design as launched by Simon and policy design, but also into the present-day design wave, stemming from traditional design sciences. Based upon this we distinguish between three ideal-type approaches of design currently characterising the discipline: design as optimisation, design as exploration and design as co-creation. More rigorous empirical analyses of applications of these approaches is necessary to further develop public administration as a design science. We reflect upon the question of how a more designerly way of thinking can help to improve public administration and public policy.

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Advances in the application of action learning in nursing practice

Han

Zhang

et al. 2016

Chinese Nursing Research

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Leadership through action learning: a bottom-up approach to ‘best practice’ in ‘infection prevention and control’ in a UK NHS trust

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Improving public policy and administration: exploring the potential of design

Improving public policy and administration: exploring the potential of design

Improving public policy and administration: exploring the potential of design

Advances in the application of action learning in nursing practice

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