Module Code - Title:
PA5021
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COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP (ONLINE)
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module was first developed as part of the revised MPA to ensure a core focus on themes of collaborative governance and leadership. It will now be offered as part of the Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Syllabus:
This syllabus for this module will address a number of key themes:
i. Collaboration and leadership in traditional PA and in era of NPM
ii. The implications of 'governance' for collaborative working, within and beyond the public administration system.
iii. Exploring the meanings and levels of collaboration, supported by illustrative case studies
iv. The implications of collaborative governance on leadership, within PA and beyond.
v. Leadership styles and approaches in PA
vi. Understanding possible collaborators - private and not for profit collaboration partners.
vii. Managing conflict in collaboration
viii. Collaborating for inclusion, equality and human rights.
ix. Values as the basis for collaboration
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
At the end of this module students will:
- be highly familiar the meaning of collaborative governance, conceptually and in practice.
- be able to distinguish between different styles of leadership
- be able to identify which styles of leadership may enable or inhibit collaborative working
- recognise that different groups will experience collaboration differently and
- be able to apply conceptual models of collaborative governance to enable analysis of collaborative practice
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
At the end of this module students will:
- recognise their own particular leadership style and identify examples of it in practice;
- be able to identify their professional and personal values and how these influence their disposition towards / against collaborative working;
- be able to recognise how their values and attitudes have impacted on how they operate within collaborative contexts.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
n/a
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module places issues of collaboration and leadership at the core of the diploma in Equality in practice. Within the public sector in Ireland and beyond the relationship between the achievement of equality and diversity outcomes and the need for collaborative working in inceasingly recognised.
The module will be taught online and as such is well suited to include components of Problem Based Learning and experiential learning. I will also seek to optimise the experience of participants. This will be particularly important given the MPA's strong focus on targeting a professional market.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Morse, Ricardo (2007)
Developing Public Leaders in an Age of Collaborative Governance
, University of Delaware
Diamond J and Liddle J (eds) (2012)
Critical perspectives in Public Sector
Management
, Emerald Annual Book Series. Series 2
Brooks Stephen and Grint Keith (eds) (2010)
The New Public Leadership Challenge
, Palgrave MacMillan
Hoyt Crystal and Murphy, Susan (2016)
An exploration of stereotypical beliefs about leadership styles:
Is transformational leadership a route to women's promotion?
, The Leadership Quarterly
Kellis Dana and Ran Bing (2013)
Modern leadership principles for public
administration: time to move forward
, Journal of Public Affairs
Sun Peter and Anderson, Marc (2012)
Civic capacity: Building on transformational leadership to explain
successful integrative public leadership
, The Leadership Quarterly
Ansell, Chris and
Gash, Alison (2007)
Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice
, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Emerson, Kirk,
Nabatchi, Tina and
Balogh Stephen (2011)
An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance
, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
GDEQDITPA - EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
chris.g.mcinerney@ul.ie