Public sector leadership: new perspectives for research and practice

Orazi, Davide C.; Turrini, Alex; Valotti, Giovanni

doi:10.1177/0020852313489945

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“…For example, Kim and Lee (2009) investigated management capacity in the innovation process in the Korean public sector and highlighted the importance of innovative leadership on the adoption and implementation of innovations. The willingness of leaders to take risks on novel initiatives and adopt fresh perspectives is the main factor in the success of innovation implementation (Orazi et al, 2013).…”

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Exploring leadership styles for innovation: an exploratory factor analysis

Wipulanusat

Panuwatwanich

Stewart

2017

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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Leadership plays a vital role in building the process, structures, and climate for an organisation to become innovative and to motivate team expectations toward innovations. This study explores the leadership styles that engineers regard as significant for innovation in the public sector. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted to identify the principal leadership styles influencing innovation in the Australian Public Service (APS), using survey data extracted from the 2014 APS employee census comprising 3 125 engineering professionals in Commonwealth of Australia departments. EFA returned a two-factor structure explaining 77.6% of the variance of the leadership for innovation construct. In this study, the results from the EFA provided a clear estimation of the factor structure of the measures for leadership for innovation. From the results, the two factors extracted were transformational leadership and consideration leadership. In transformational leadership, a leader values organisational objectives, inspires subordinates to perform, and motivates followers beyond expected levels of work standards. Consideration leadership refers to the degree to which a leader shows concern and expressions of support for subordinates, takes care of their welfare, treats members as equals, and displays warmth and approachability. These findings highlight the role of leadership as the most critical predictor when considering the degree to which subordinates strive for creativity and innovation. Both transformational and consideration leadership styles are recommended to be incorporated into management training and development programs. This study also recommends that Commonwealth departments recruit supervisors who have both of these leadership styles before implementing innovative projects.

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Exploring leadership styles for innovation: an exploratory factor analysis

Wipulanusat

Panuwatwanich

Stewart

2017

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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“…The main key to innovation in public sector is the role of administrative leadership in improving the performance of public sector oganization (Orazi et al, 2013). In our study, we found that the head of regency government and the secretary of regency showed a strong commitment of preserving transparency and accountability values in managing public funds.…”

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Institutional Innovation in Development Administration to Respond the Problems of Transparency and Accountability: A case study of "Accounting Clinic" in Aceh Tamiang Regency, Indonesia

Rosyadi¹,

Ramadhanti²

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Public Management (ICPM 2016)

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Abstract-One of the problems of development administration in developing countries is the transparency and accountability in the management of local development budgets. In Indonesia, the indication can be identified from the weak preparation and presentation of financial statements of local government. There are still many financial statements which do not fulfill the accounting standards of government. As a result, most of the district / city government did not obtain good results of the audit opinion from the Financial Auditor Board. To increase transparency and accountability in the management and financial area, Aceh Tamiang Regency in Aceh Province undertook an institutional innovation in the form of "Accounting Clinic" in 2013. The innovative approach to financial management in this new autonomous region facilitates three functions performed by the accounting clinic: (1) the implementation of accounting services and educational and mini training issues, (2) review of accounting policies and the district government accounting system, (3) the implementation of simulation preparation of financial statements; and (4) the implementation of the supervision and assistance in the preparation of financial statements. This case study explored the process of establishing institutional innovation in the form of accounting clinic and its success in obtaining unqualified audit opinion from the Financial Audit Board in 2015.

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“…Van Wart (: 218) noted the expansion of the literature on administrative leadership in the 1990s, but nonetheless characterized its overall development as “relatively unfocused” and constituting “a fraction of that in the private sector.” In the decade that followed, however, there was a proliferation of scholarship on public sector leadership (Orazi, Turrini, and Valotti ; Van Wart ). These studies, written primarily by American and European academics, employed a range of research methods (from data based studies to single and comparative case studies to theoretical contributions) and addressed a wide range of topics germane to administrative leadership.…”

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Public sector leadership: An emerging subfield with tremendous research potential

Mau¹

2020

Can Public Adm

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Public sector leadership: new perspectives for research and practice

Cited by 157 publications

References 60 publications

Exploring leadership styles for innovation: an exploratory factor analysis

Exploring leadership styles for innovation: an exploratory factor analysis

Institutional Innovation in Development Administration to Respond the Problems of Transparency and Accountability: A case study of "Accounting Clinic" in Aceh Tamiang Regency, Indonesia

Public sector leadership: An emerging subfield with tremendous research potential

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