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Grabowski, Franciszek (2024)

Stable Leadership: Adapting to New Realities of Governance: Behavioural Stratagem to Address Challenges of Bureaucratic Insubordination in Public Institutions in Poland

Master thesis | Public Administration (MSc)

To accomplish policy tasks, political leaders and executives entrust bureaucrats who possess specialized knowledge, however in doing so, they face the potential loss of control over policy formulation and execution. This becomes problematic if bureaucrats hold differing preferences from their superiors. The study examines how leaders in public institutions behave in face of insubordination under modern governing conditions where decentralization, outsourcing and market-based reasoning are major factors. It establishes how executives manage bureaucratic insubordination in a specific case of Polish sub-national institutions, contributing to an academically underrepresented institutional setting. Supported by the typology of Yukl (2012) it outlines practical and realistic models of executive behavior.

leadership

management

public institution

Author

Grabowski, Franciszek

Faculty

Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

Specialisation

Public Management & Leadership

Supervisors

Voet, J. van der

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en