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Integrated Intelligent Research(IIR) International Journal of Business Intelligent
Volume: 01 Issue: 02 December 2012,Pages No.32-34
ISSN: 2278-2400
32
Strategies and Challenges in Quality Leadership
in the Public Sector
Suganya.G
III BBM- Information Systems, PSG College of Arts & Science
Abstract -To fill the need for leaders and change agents
throughout all levels of federal agencies, public sector
human resource managers are now called on to develop
innovativeleadership development programs. Developing
leaders for the 21st century requires attention to
workforce trends as well as flexibility and creativity.
Federal government leadership concerns of public agency
managers, including creative thinking, collaboration, and
cross-organizational team building and leading for
results.
Keywords: Leadership - Leadership in public sector -
Strategies and Challenges – Quality leadership
I. INTRODUCTION
Effective leadership is integral to organizational
effectiveness. Effective leaders create positive
organizational cultures, strengthen motivation, clarify
mission and organizational objectives, and steer
organizations to more productive and high performing
outcomes. The demands placed on the economies of
developing countries make it necessary that public
service attain the economic self-sufficiency it needs for
autonomy in its operations. However, the economic gains
are realized at a cost. There is always a social cost when
human beings are reduced to the level of commodities.
Thus there will be resistance to modernizing the public
service by emphasizing efficiency and effectiveness and
the people will have to be reoriented. In most cases the
cumbersome nature of public service institutions makes
reform of any kind difficult to effect.Emphasis on
efficiency and effectiveness has dominated the reform
efforts of most developing countries. Various initiatives,
ranging from reducing the size of the public service to
introducing performance management systems, have
been considered. Leadership plays a crucial role in the
two factors believed to employee satisfaction – utilizing
employee skills and teamwork – developing and
sustaining effective leaders for the government of the
21st century is clearly fundamental.
This article contributes to the discussion of leadership
excellence in contemporary public sector management in
developing countries and in a globalized environment. It
is built on the premise that developing countries, in their
effort to modernize the public service, share the
challenges of competing goals and inadequate resources.
The discussion will examine the demands made on public
service leaders in the new millennium and the strategies
they apply to address these challenges. The article also
proposes new strategies and practices to promote the
development and maintenance of a high caliber of
leadership in the public sector.Kotter argues that many
change efforts have failed because organizations are
busy trying to manage change instead of leading it.
He proposes a comprehensive eight-step action plan
that emphasizes the need for a vision, the creation
and communication of short-term wins and the
empowerment of employees for leaders caught up in
rapid change situations. Kotter also explains the
difference between management and leadership. The
mandate of management is to minimize risk and
maintain the status quo through procedures, rules
and regulations.
Stacey refers to the concept of ordinary management
where the situation in an organization is characterized by
relative predictability and certainty. Furthermore,
ordinary management is practiced in formal groups that
require the leader to arrive with particular skills
developed beforehand. The required personality, skills
and styles, or competencies, can be identified in advance
since they depend upon the situation. In this situation,
leadership is confined to a concern for securing efficient
performance of known tasks as opposed to effectiveness.
Change compels managers to engage in a paradigm shift
and apply what Stacey refers to as extraordinary
management techniques. Extraordinary management
enables leaders to operate in uncertainty and to apply
ingenuity and different techniques to the new challenges
that they face in the 21st century. It is a process that
involves ‘questioning and shattering paradigms, and then
creating new ones. It is a process which depends
critically upon contradiction and tension’. Stacey argues
that successful organizations result from leaders who
thrive on chaos and take pride in finding innovative and
creative solutions. Finally, organizations in the 21st
century need more leaders than managers. The challenges
facing these leaders include:Leading organizations in an
environment of dwindling resources and increased
demands for quality service, sustainable development
and retention of skills for organizational continuity
Integrated Intelligent Research(IIR) International Journal of Business Intelligent
Volume: 01 Issue: 02 December 2012,Pages No.32-34
ISSN: 2278-2400
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 Cultivating a performance management culture
with emphasis on results
 Upholding good governance despite a hostile and
ever – changing environment
 Instituting effective staff retention strategies
amid a change fatigue syndrome; and
 Keeping pace with advances in information
technology and workforce renewal.
Furthermore, because of the un adapted reform initiatives
and globalization, developing countries in particular have
to deal with increased poverty, low performing
employees, corruption and an acute shortage of financial,
material and human resources.One fundamental reality is
that if developing nations are to succeed in their quest for
excellence, it is critical to have a deliberate policy to
develop public sector leadership with the potential to
strike a synergistic balance among all competing goals in
a reforming economy. The public sector must assume a
strategic leadership position for national developmental
purposes.
II. STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS PUBLIC
SECTOR LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES
Competency refers here to the set of behavior patterns
that an incumbent needs to bring to a position to perform
its tasks and functions competently. Specific skills,
specialized knowledge demands and attributes that are
considered to be important in performing tasks to the
requires standards underpin competencies. Training and
skills development of the current crop of prospective
public sector managers is especially important because
public organizations have traditionally concentrated on
developing mangers who can operate in an environment
guided by specific rules and procedures.The need for
change raises the question of which managerial or
leadership skills are appropriate for the public sector in
the new millennium. To initiate, anticipate, monitor,
understand, cope with and manage the complex processes
of change demands various abilities which are difficult to
analyze and describe, let alone teach. It is probable that
those involved in the training and development of
managers will have to look beyond the book and the
formal classroom if they are to make meaningful
contributions to organizational change and
development.Leadership competency in the 21st century
should focus more on cultivating and encouraging the
attainment of survival skills, which basically enable
leaders to adapt to any situation and still remain flexible.
These skills are of a technical, human and conceptual
nature and derive from the fundamental generic skills
that go with management ability. Successful leaders
continually challenge the status quo by scanning the
environment and are capable of operating in uncertainty
but still achieving results.
The trend whereby most organizations are investing
heavily in the training retraining and development of
their employees comes in the wake of the realization that
people are the most valuable resource. In designing
leadership development programmes, infusion of specific
competencies must form the foundation of human
resource management initiatives. It has also become
imperative that leaders participate in international
organizations whose core business is training and
development. This will enable them and other employees
to keep track of innovations and current trends in human
resource management and to exploit technology as a
medium for self development. Most developing countries
face challenges about how to plan their workforce to
ensure continuity at all levels but particularly at the
leadership levels. These challenges include finding and
retaining qualified employees, staffing for the future and
effective utilization of human resources challenges that
have become more acute because of an increasingly
mobile and enterprising workforce.
With unprecedented globalization, it is difficult to
differentiate between the skills needed in developed and
developing countries as nations find common challenges
in human resources management and development.
Dessler envisages for the 21st century a global workforce
with increased organizational uncertainties and different
training and developmental needs. The public leader’s
work has been drastically transformed; hence the urgent
need to prepare leaders with the ability to cope with and
adopt to change. Strategies for training and developing
leaders must take account of the ever - changing
environment by encouraging more thinking outside of the
box. Several possible leadership strategies are as follows:
 Focusing on outcomes
 Reward and recognition strategies Shared vision
 Innovation, creativity and double – loop learning
 Organizational networks
III. LEADERSHIP AND COMPETENCIES
There are three behaviours that are characteristic of
leadership activities in complex organizational change.
Charismatic Leadership – the first one is charismatic
leadership comprised of envisioning, energizing and
enabling. Charismatic leaders possess a special quality
that enables them to mobilize and sustain activity within
an organization through specific personal actions
combined with perceived personal characteristics.
Instrumental Leadership – involves building competent
teams, clarifying required behaviour, building in
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Volume: 01 Issue: 02 December 2012,Pages No.32-34
ISSN: 2278-2400
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measurements, and administering rewards and
punishments. So that individuals perceive that behaviour
consistent with the change is essential for them to
achieve both their own goals and those of the
organization.
Spreading the gospel of change through leadership –
is a strategy that enables coalition building by identifying
potential allies in the organization and developing their
leadership ability so that they can spread the gospel of
change. Successful leaders involve various stakeholders
made up of their senior team, senior management and
leadership throughout the organization styles and develop
a communication strategy capable of supporting desired
change outcomes.
IV. CONCLUSION
This article has identified major issues impacting on
leadership in the 21st century and explained how a
careful mix of practices and strategies, appropriately
applied, can make a difference in an organization’s
efforts to keep up with the ever-changing environment.
The major conclusion is that people are to meeting
current and emerging challenges; hence the need to
involve them in the reform process and continually equip
them with appropriate skills to facilitate the building of
leadership competencies capable or responding to 21st
century challenges and opportunities. The development
of leadership competencies must not be confined to rank
as defined by the organization’s structure.
REFERENCES
[1] Charan, R. (2009) How Networks Re-shape Organizations – For Results,
Harvard Business Review (Sept. – Oct.): 104-115.
[2] Dessler, G. (2005) Managing Organizations in an Era of Change,
Sydney: Dryden Press.
[3] Jensen, P. (2010) The Inside Edge: High Performance through Mental
Fitness, Toronto: Macmillan.
[4] Kotter, J.P. (2010) Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail,
Harvard Business Review (Mar. – Apr.): 59-67.
[5] Larson, P.E. and Coe, A. (1998) Managing Change: The Evolving Role
of the Commonwealth’s Top Public Servant, Ottawa: Public Policy
Forum.
[6] Lyon, M. (2009) The Future of the Public Service, Public Manager 28(2):
51-54.
[7] Nadler, D. and Tushman, M. (1999) ‘Beyond the Charismatic Leader:
Leadership and Organizational Change’, California Management Review,
Winter: 77-97.
[8] Stacey, R.D. (2006) Strategic Management and Organizational
Dynamics. Melbourne: Pitman Publishing.
[9] Valle, M. (2011) ‘Crisis, Culture and Charisma: The New Leader’s Work
in Public Organizations’, Public Personnel Management 28(2): 245-257.

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Strategies and Challenges in Quality Leadership in the Public Sector

  • 1. Integrated Intelligent Research(IIR) International Journal of Business Intelligent Volume: 01 Issue: 02 December 2012,Pages No.32-34 ISSN: 2278-2400 32 Strategies and Challenges in Quality Leadership in the Public Sector Suganya.G III BBM- Information Systems, PSG College of Arts & Science Abstract -To fill the need for leaders and change agents throughout all levels of federal agencies, public sector human resource managers are now called on to develop innovativeleadership development programs. Developing leaders for the 21st century requires attention to workforce trends as well as flexibility and creativity. Federal government leadership concerns of public agency managers, including creative thinking, collaboration, and cross-organizational team building and leading for results. Keywords: Leadership - Leadership in public sector - Strategies and Challenges – Quality leadership I. INTRODUCTION Effective leadership is integral to organizational effectiveness. Effective leaders create positive organizational cultures, strengthen motivation, clarify mission and organizational objectives, and steer organizations to more productive and high performing outcomes. The demands placed on the economies of developing countries make it necessary that public service attain the economic self-sufficiency it needs for autonomy in its operations. However, the economic gains are realized at a cost. There is always a social cost when human beings are reduced to the level of commodities. Thus there will be resistance to modernizing the public service by emphasizing efficiency and effectiveness and the people will have to be reoriented. In most cases the cumbersome nature of public service institutions makes reform of any kind difficult to effect.Emphasis on efficiency and effectiveness has dominated the reform efforts of most developing countries. Various initiatives, ranging from reducing the size of the public service to introducing performance management systems, have been considered. Leadership plays a crucial role in the two factors believed to employee satisfaction – utilizing employee skills and teamwork – developing and sustaining effective leaders for the government of the 21st century is clearly fundamental. This article contributes to the discussion of leadership excellence in contemporary public sector management in developing countries and in a globalized environment. It is built on the premise that developing countries, in their effort to modernize the public service, share the challenges of competing goals and inadequate resources. The discussion will examine the demands made on public service leaders in the new millennium and the strategies they apply to address these challenges. The article also proposes new strategies and practices to promote the development and maintenance of a high caliber of leadership in the public sector.Kotter argues that many change efforts have failed because organizations are busy trying to manage change instead of leading it. He proposes a comprehensive eight-step action plan that emphasizes the need for a vision, the creation and communication of short-term wins and the empowerment of employees for leaders caught up in rapid change situations. Kotter also explains the difference between management and leadership. The mandate of management is to minimize risk and maintain the status quo through procedures, rules and regulations. Stacey refers to the concept of ordinary management where the situation in an organization is characterized by relative predictability and certainty. Furthermore, ordinary management is practiced in formal groups that require the leader to arrive with particular skills developed beforehand. The required personality, skills and styles, or competencies, can be identified in advance since they depend upon the situation. In this situation, leadership is confined to a concern for securing efficient performance of known tasks as opposed to effectiveness. Change compels managers to engage in a paradigm shift and apply what Stacey refers to as extraordinary management techniques. Extraordinary management enables leaders to operate in uncertainty and to apply ingenuity and different techniques to the new challenges that they face in the 21st century. It is a process that involves ‘questioning and shattering paradigms, and then creating new ones. It is a process which depends critically upon contradiction and tension’. Stacey argues that successful organizations result from leaders who thrive on chaos and take pride in finding innovative and creative solutions. Finally, organizations in the 21st century need more leaders than managers. The challenges facing these leaders include:Leading organizations in an environment of dwindling resources and increased demands for quality service, sustainable development and retention of skills for organizational continuity
  • 2. Integrated Intelligent Research(IIR) International Journal of Business Intelligent Volume: 01 Issue: 02 December 2012,Pages No.32-34 ISSN: 2278-2400 33  Cultivating a performance management culture with emphasis on results  Upholding good governance despite a hostile and ever – changing environment  Instituting effective staff retention strategies amid a change fatigue syndrome; and  Keeping pace with advances in information technology and workforce renewal. Furthermore, because of the un adapted reform initiatives and globalization, developing countries in particular have to deal with increased poverty, low performing employees, corruption and an acute shortage of financial, material and human resources.One fundamental reality is that if developing nations are to succeed in their quest for excellence, it is critical to have a deliberate policy to develop public sector leadership with the potential to strike a synergistic balance among all competing goals in a reforming economy. The public sector must assume a strategic leadership position for national developmental purposes. II. STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS PUBLIC SECTOR LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES Competency refers here to the set of behavior patterns that an incumbent needs to bring to a position to perform its tasks and functions competently. Specific skills, specialized knowledge demands and attributes that are considered to be important in performing tasks to the requires standards underpin competencies. Training and skills development of the current crop of prospective public sector managers is especially important because public organizations have traditionally concentrated on developing mangers who can operate in an environment guided by specific rules and procedures.The need for change raises the question of which managerial or leadership skills are appropriate for the public sector in the new millennium. To initiate, anticipate, monitor, understand, cope with and manage the complex processes of change demands various abilities which are difficult to analyze and describe, let alone teach. It is probable that those involved in the training and development of managers will have to look beyond the book and the formal classroom if they are to make meaningful contributions to organizational change and development.Leadership competency in the 21st century should focus more on cultivating and encouraging the attainment of survival skills, which basically enable leaders to adapt to any situation and still remain flexible. These skills are of a technical, human and conceptual nature and derive from the fundamental generic skills that go with management ability. Successful leaders continually challenge the status quo by scanning the environment and are capable of operating in uncertainty but still achieving results. The trend whereby most organizations are investing heavily in the training retraining and development of their employees comes in the wake of the realization that people are the most valuable resource. In designing leadership development programmes, infusion of specific competencies must form the foundation of human resource management initiatives. It has also become imperative that leaders participate in international organizations whose core business is training and development. This will enable them and other employees to keep track of innovations and current trends in human resource management and to exploit technology as a medium for self development. Most developing countries face challenges about how to plan their workforce to ensure continuity at all levels but particularly at the leadership levels. These challenges include finding and retaining qualified employees, staffing for the future and effective utilization of human resources challenges that have become more acute because of an increasingly mobile and enterprising workforce. With unprecedented globalization, it is difficult to differentiate between the skills needed in developed and developing countries as nations find common challenges in human resources management and development. Dessler envisages for the 21st century a global workforce with increased organizational uncertainties and different training and developmental needs. The public leader’s work has been drastically transformed; hence the urgent need to prepare leaders with the ability to cope with and adopt to change. Strategies for training and developing leaders must take account of the ever - changing environment by encouraging more thinking outside of the box. Several possible leadership strategies are as follows:  Focusing on outcomes  Reward and recognition strategies Shared vision  Innovation, creativity and double – loop learning  Organizational networks III. LEADERSHIP AND COMPETENCIES There are three behaviours that are characteristic of leadership activities in complex organizational change. Charismatic Leadership – the first one is charismatic leadership comprised of envisioning, energizing and enabling. Charismatic leaders possess a special quality that enables them to mobilize and sustain activity within an organization through specific personal actions combined with perceived personal characteristics. Instrumental Leadership – involves building competent teams, clarifying required behaviour, building in
  • 3. Integrated Intelligent Research(IIR) International Journal of Business Intelligent Volume: 01 Issue: 02 December 2012,Pages No.32-34 ISSN: 2278-2400 34 measurements, and administering rewards and punishments. So that individuals perceive that behaviour consistent with the change is essential for them to achieve both their own goals and those of the organization. Spreading the gospel of change through leadership – is a strategy that enables coalition building by identifying potential allies in the organization and developing their leadership ability so that they can spread the gospel of change. Successful leaders involve various stakeholders made up of their senior team, senior management and leadership throughout the organization styles and develop a communication strategy capable of supporting desired change outcomes. IV. CONCLUSION This article has identified major issues impacting on leadership in the 21st century and explained how a careful mix of practices and strategies, appropriately applied, can make a difference in an organization’s efforts to keep up with the ever-changing environment. The major conclusion is that people are to meeting current and emerging challenges; hence the need to involve them in the reform process and continually equip them with appropriate skills to facilitate the building of leadership competencies capable or responding to 21st century challenges and opportunities. The development of leadership competencies must not be confined to rank as defined by the organization’s structure. REFERENCES [1] Charan, R. (2009) How Networks Re-shape Organizations – For Results, Harvard Business Review (Sept. – Oct.): 104-115. [2] Dessler, G. (2005) Managing Organizations in an Era of Change, Sydney: Dryden Press. [3] Jensen, P. (2010) The Inside Edge: High Performance through Mental Fitness, Toronto: Macmillan. [4] Kotter, J.P. (2010) Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail, Harvard Business Review (Mar. – Apr.): 59-67. [5] Larson, P.E. and Coe, A. (1998) Managing Change: The Evolving Role of the Commonwealth’s Top Public Servant, Ottawa: Public Policy Forum. [6] Lyon, M. (2009) The Future of the Public Service, Public Manager 28(2): 51-54. [7] Nadler, D. and Tushman, M. (1999) ‘Beyond the Charismatic Leader: Leadership and Organizational Change’, California Management Review, Winter: 77-97. [8] Stacey, R.D. (2006) Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics. Melbourne: Pitman Publishing. [9] Valle, M. (2011) ‘Crisis, Culture and Charisma: The New Leader’s Work in Public Organizations’, Public Personnel Management 28(2): 245-257.