Action Learning, Leadership and Organizational Development in Public Services [Paperback]

Unprecedented investment is being made in leadership development across the public sector: leadership courses are growing, and development is a core theme of organizational capacity building initiatives. Within this, action learning has attracted increasing interest as an approach that can simultaneously address individual and organizational development.

An impressive and scholarly collection, this book collates important examples and considers the evidence for action learnings effectiveness. An important read for postgraduate students and researchers of human resources, training and development, this important book draws important insights to raise new questions concerning the role of the facilitator, the value of a bilingual ability with public service issues and facilitation, comparisons with coaching and mentoring, and implications for employing action learning in a politicized or hierarchical environment and on a consultancy basis.

1. Developing Public Service Leadership  The Context for Action Learning  Part 1: Context   2. The Policy Context for Public Service Leadership  3. Optimizing the Power of Learning within Action Learning   4. Understanding the Organizational Potential of Action Learning  Part 2: Practice  5. Local Authority Chief Executive Action Learning Sets  6. Learning and Leading; Action Learning for Chief Probation Officers  7. The Design and Evaluation of a Leadership Programme for Experienced Chief Executives from the Health Sector  8. Levels of Action Learning, and Holding Groups to the Experience  9. Developing Ourselves as Police Leaders: How Can we Inquire Collaboratively in a Hierarchical Organization?  10. Supporting Organizational Turnaround in Local Authorities  Networks and Partnerships  Developing lSÁ