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System diplomacy – an alternative to system leadership

journal contribution
posted on 2025-01-22, 16:25 authored by Catherine Needham, Nicola Gale, Justin WaringJustin Waring

Given that public services are recognised to be part of complex adaptive systems, it is increasingly assumed that senior officials need to be trained as system leaders. Indeed, many leadership programmes exist to offer this training. However, there are limits to the system leader model within public management, which are presented here. We argue that the concept of system diplomacy better captures the value pluralism and competing agendas of senior public officials and will be a fruitful line of analysis for future research.

History

School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Published in

Public Money & Management

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Public Money & Management on [date of publication], available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI].

Acceptance date

2025-01-17

ISSN

0954-0962

eISSN

1467-9302

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Justin Waring. Deposit date: 22 January 2025