ABSTRACT
What makes public administration leadership different from leadership in private industry? This chapter will argue that what is distinguishing are the overall goals of public administration, which are to provide service, regulation, and depth of knowledge; to keep the bureaucracy working in service to the people of our nation, to organize that work; and to provide the leadership necessary in a changing workplace. We see those changes reflected in “reinventing the government” and the new public management (NPM) as an organizational outcome in contrast to organizational governance. We see it in the changes of how leadership is conceptualized and how decisions are made.
