Managing the Entanglement: Complexity Leadership in Public Sector Systems

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Murphy, Joanne; Rhodes, Mary Lee; Meek, Jack W.; Denyer, David
• 署名单位: Queens University Belfast; Trinity College Dublin; University of La Verne; Cranfield University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12698
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 692-704
• 关键词: contemporary challenges; ORGANIZATIONS; PARADOX; LESSONS; time

摘要

Complexity in public sector systems requires leaders to balance the administrative practices necessary to be aligned and efficient in the management of routine challenges and the adaptive practices required to respond to dynamic circumstances. Conventional notions of leadership in the field of public administration do not fully explain the role of leadership in balancing the entanglement of formal, top-down, administrative functions and informal, emergent, adaptive functions within public sector settings with different levels of complexity. Drawing on and extending existing complexity leadership constructs, this article explores how leadership is enacted over the duration of six urban regeneration projects representing high, medium, and low levels of project complexity. The article suggests that greater attention needs to be paid to the tensions inherent in enabling leadership if actors are to cope with the complex, collaborative, cross-boundary, adaptive work in which they are increasingly engaged.