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Leadership in Europe’s Public Sector

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European research into probably the best-known model of leadership in the public sector—the transformational–transactional leadership model—emerges from this chapter as potentially more important for what it says about a leader’s focus on followers’ needs as what it says about charismatic and empowering leadership. The remaining perspectives, including systems leadership, are at an early stage in research terms, but do serve to highlight that models of leadership need to keep up with evolutions in the public sector, including the extensive use of partnerships and networks. This chapter also includes some materials on public governance developments in Scotland to highlight the role of public sector leaders in relation to public governance, including their role in redesigning public governance institutions.

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  1. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Anne Drumaux

  2. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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Drumaux, A., Joyce, P. (2018). Leadership in Europe’s Public Sector. In: Ongaro, E., Van Thiel, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55269-3_6

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