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Leadership Competencies of Public Administrators in Millennial India

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Bureaucracy; Competency; Competence in public administration; Civil service; District magistrate; IAS; India; Indian Administrative Service; Leadership; Leadership training; Public service; Training of bureaucrats

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Leadership competencies: Know-how, skills, experiences, and values all put together – under the meta category of competencies (Roberts 1997) – enable an individual to work effectively. Lawler (1994, p. 4) comments about competency-based organizations as, “…organizational systems in which the capabilities of the individuals are the primary focus and which cause them to be managed in a way that provides competitive advantage.” Leadership positions are a complex job requiring consensus building and/or balancing competing demands of stakeholders which requires a unique combination of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior, enabling a leader to deliver seamlessly toward an organization’s rationale.

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  1. Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow, Lucknow, India

    Girish Balasubramanian

  2. Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar, India

    Sanjeev Chopra

  3. Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), Kozhikode, India

    Ram Kumar Kakani

  4. NCLDCA, LBSNAA, Mussoorie, India

    Ram Kumar Kakani

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    Ali Farazmand

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Balasubramanian, G., Chopra, S., Kakani, R.K. (2020). Leadership Competencies of Public Administrators in Millennial India. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4133-1

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