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Please circulate widely!
Leadership in Public Services – Bridging the Management Gap?
17th International Research Conference
To be hosted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
10th-12th September 2014
This Conference, organised jointly by the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, University of East London, Staffordshire University
and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, provides a forum for policy,
organisational and critical sociological analyses of the dilemmas facing
the organisation and delivery of health, housing, education, social
services and the human services generally.
With growing criticisms of managerialism and concerns over
micro-management attention has shifted to leadership. The tragedy of the
Mid Staffs hospital trust, for example, was too much inappropriate
management and, possibly, not enough leadership (Francis Report 2013).
More generally, leadership is currently seen as the more appropriate
approach to engaging public sector professionals, who are generally
disenchanted with managerialism and its perceived attacks on their
autonomy and status. This year’s conference theme focuses on the
rhetoric of leadership and its ability to tackle the challenges of
delivering services in the context of continued austerity and public
sector reforms.
We are all exhorted to be leaders, but how leadership differs from
management and what skills or qualities leaders have that managers lack
remains obscure and contested. Leadership theory has often tended to
focus on traits or styles of leadership, yet it is difficult to find a
coherent definition of leadership itself (maybe there isn’t one?). It is
a diverse field, where leadership can be constructed to mean both
leading from the front as well as distributed or collaborative
leadership. How does the inspiring and charismatic aura of good
leadership sit alongside the muscular, finance driven styles of
management seen in public services today? How can professionals be
leaders in the public sector where political leaders govern? Can there
be leadership, rather than management, of public services when
Government ministers can have such an immediate impact on service
organisation or delivery?
A selection of papers includes:
Management, gender, organizations, the impact of 'leadership' on a
range of public services, including Higher Education, in the UK and
globally, for example India, Thailand and Nigeria.
Keynote speakers will be Albert Mills, Professor of Management at St
Mary's University, Novca Scotia and Jean Helms Mills, Professor of
Management at The Sobey School of Business in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
To book a place go to:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dilemmas-for-human-services-2014-registration-12162278703
Dr Jennifer Gosling
Lecturer
Department of Health Services Research & Policy
Faculty of Public Health & Policy
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
15 - 17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
Tel: 020 7958 8142
Fax: 020 7927 2701
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