Series: Leadership and innovation in public organisations
At Copenhagen Business School, we will take part in the debates, and in the weeks leading up to the Leadership Week, we will share articles on public innovation and leadership. What does innovation look like in public organisations, and how do you create the best possible conditions for everyday innovation? How do leaders handle the challenges that hybrid working conditions bring, and how do they balance employees’ concerns about community and their wish for flexibility? And why is everybody in the public sector talking about transformation? This series will provide you some of the answers.
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Innovation is not about turning everything on its head
Innovation: There is much to gain if public leaders manage to establish the right conditions for innovation in an everyday context. The key factors include knowledge of operations, knowledge generation and inclusion.
Transformation has become a buzz word
The public sector is at great risk of trying to have it both ways, says Professor Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen. Constant transformation has become all the rage at the cost of great frustration to management, staff members and regular citizens. This is his characterisation of the sector’s development.
Flexibility or community: the hybrid way of working put leaders to the task
Nine out of ten companies offer their employees the opportunity to work from home. This development challenges leaders, but it can be handled with openness and involvement and the right mix of trust and supervision, is the advice offered by researchers.
Contact
Martine Mengers (mm.slk@cbs.dk)
Journalist, Sekretariat for ledelse og kommunikation, CBS