Strategic Leadership & Change Management in the Public and Private Sectors
INTRODUCTION
As public organizations have specific characteristics, the development of change in public sector is crucial and difficult. Despite its significance, organizational change for public management practice is generally not investigated as an implementation problem in public management research. Researchers tend to focus on the content of change, ignoring the techniques through which organizational change is applied. The purpose of this course is to examine in what ways the factors associated with the implementation of change projects in public organizations could be taken into consideration by middle managers in order to develop change projects. The results of the analysis suggest that employees in the public sector have dealt with several changes but there is a lack of management support, clear vision, training and commitment.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Explain Strategic leadership and change management in general.
- Distinguish various leadership theories and evaluate their contemporary relevance.
- Identify the key models used in planned organisational change and management.
- Identify the role of culture in leadership and change mainly at group level.
- Discuss Strategic leadership and change management in the public sector.
- Analyse a variety of emerging issues in leadership and change management.