Leadership in the public sector : promises and pitfalls / edited by Christine Teelken, Ewan Ferlie, and Mike Dent.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: overview and conceptualisations / Christine Teelken -- Leaderism and the discourse of leadership in the reformation of UK public services / Dermot O'reilly and Mike Reed -- Leading transformation in public delivery systems / Damien Contandriopoulos and Jean-louis Denis -- Respond and deliver: change leadership in complex organizations / Louise Fitzgerald, Ewan Ferlie, Gerry Mcgivern And David Buchanan -- After privatisation: the public management of private employment services / Nicolette Van Gestel -- Medical leadership and management reforms in hospitals / Mike Dent, Ian Kirkpatrick And Indy Neogy -- Quality development and professional autonomy in modern hospital fields / Peter Kragh Jespersen -- Universities under new Labour: senior leaders' responses to government reforms and policy levers / Rosemary Deem -- Academic leadership and its effects on professional autonomy / Christine Teelken -- The university and the public and private good / Jürg Enders -- The making of professional public leaders / Mirko Noordegraaf -- Concluding discussion: paradigms and instruments of public management reform / Ewan Ferlie.