Public Leadership, Organisation Development and Action Learning Book

List of illustrations     ix
Acknowledgements     x
Notes on contributors     xi
Developing public service leadership - the context for action learning   Clare Rigg     1
Context     13
New public policy paradigm - new leadership   Sue Richards     15
Optimizing the power of learning within action learning   Michael Marquardt   Deborah Waddill     26
Understanding the organizational potential of action learning   Clare Rigg     41
Practice - developing leaders     53
Local authority chief executive action learning sets   Michael Lyons   Clare Rigg     55
Learning and leading: action learning for chief probation officers   Sue Richards     66
The design and evaluation of a leadership programme for experienced chief executives from the health sector   Frank Blackler   Andy Kennedy     79
Practice - developing organizations     101
Levels of action learning, and holding groups to the experience   Carol Yapp     103
Developing ourselves as police leaders: how can we inquire collaboratively in a hierarchical organization?   Geoff Mead     117
Supporting organizational turnaround in local authorities   Pam Fox   Clare Rigg   Martin Willis     131
Practice - networks and partnerships: developing the public policy system     143
Developing public service leaders through action inquiry   Geoff Mead     145
Partnership action learning   Martin Willis     164
Action learning in inter-organizational sets   David Coghlan   Paul Coughlan     181
Conclusion     193
Action learning in the public service system: issues, tensions and a future agenda   Clare Rigg     195
References     207
Index     219