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Identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/44215 Identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective Hofmeyr, Karl ichelp@gibs.co.za Qotywa, Gcinumzi Benett UCTD Leadership Public administration Mixed methods research Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. The challenge of leadership in the public sector has far reaching implications for the entire society given its role in the regulation of the affairs of any society. The complexities of the public sector decision making and operations as well as their implications require good leadership. Therefore the identification of leadership potential at all levels is crucial in order to design the interventions to develop the potential further. Studies have shown that there is not a lot of research done in the area of leadership potential identification especially in the public sector. This is also because, until recently, there has been no widely accepted framework for identification of leadership potential that is applicable at all levels. A model of identifying leadership potential has recently been published and this model has been applied in the identification of leadership potential in the Australian public sector. This study aims to assess the leadership potential of the public sector managers from an intentional change perspective. This was done through a determination of the relationship between the three concepts of ideal self, leadership potential as well as the current performance of managers in the public sector. Furthermore, an assessment of the required organizational support to improve awareness of ideal self by the employees and managers was done. 95 responses from a variety of middle and senior managers in the Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa were collected and analysed. The analysis included Principle Component Analysis and Correlations to assess the relationships between these three constructs. Also 12 interviews with middle managers (level 11-12) across most departmental functions were conducted and analysed. The results indicated that there does not appear to be any statistically significant relationship between performance scores and ideal self as well as performance scores and leadership potential. They, however, indicated that there is a statistically significant relationship between the ideal self and the leadership potential. Furthermore, the results showed that to improve the awareness of the ideal self by the employees and managers and thereby increase their leadership potential, the organization needs to consider a few things. Those are, training and organizational culture; conversations with managers; coaching and mentoring; clear succession planning and rotation; opportunity or space to innovate. lmgibs2015 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Unrestricted 2015-03-31T10:24:03Z 2015-03-31T10:24:03Z 2015-03-24 2014 Mini Dissertation Qotywa, G. (2014). Identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective (MBA mini-dissertation).Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. Retrieved from http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/1818 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44215 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Leadership Public administration Mixed methods research Identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective |
| title | Identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective |
| title_full | Identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective |
| title_fullStr | Identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective |
| title_short | Identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective |
| title_sort | identifying leadership potential in the public sector from an intentional change perspective |
| topic | UCTD Leadership Public administration Mixed methods research |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44215 |