Executive leadership roles in the Australian Public Service

Abstract

Current and future public sector executive leadership role demands are explored from a competing values perspective, using roles previously identified with a private sector population. The roles identified were vision setter, motivator, analyser and task master. The results of a 4×2×4×2 MANOVA indicated that there were significant results for the main factors of leadership roles and time and also for the interaction of these two factors. There were no significant gender differences, with female and male Australian Public Service senior executives offering very similar assessments of current and future role demands. Both groups said that future role demands would be greater than is currently the case. Reasons for the differences in the current and future role demands are discussed, and the scope for future research is highlighted.

Citation

Wyse, A. and Vilkinas, T. (2004), "Executive leadership roles in the Australian Public Service", Women in Management Review, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 205-211. https://doi.org/10.1108/09649420410541272