Selecting senior leaders in the public sector: Challenges and best practices.

IF 1.9 3区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL
Psychological Services Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-04 DOI:10.1037/ser0000800
Adam T Biggs, Todd R Seech, Dale W Russell
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Abstract

Although the careful assessment and selection of leaders are important for an organization to succeed, selecting senior leaders can prove paramount given their potential to impact the entire organization. While private sector businesses expend substantial resources to recruit and retain senior leaders, the public sector struggles to do so, which in turn impacts the attitudes and retention of employees throughout the enterprise. For example, a recent survey of federal employees in the United States found that most respondents did not believe their senior leaders generated high levels of motivation and commitment in the workforce. Enhancing the senior leader selection process thus represents a prime opportunity to enhance organizational success in the public sector. The current discussion reviews four core topics for senior leader selection: (a) determine organizational needs, (b) agree upon competencies for a senior leader, (c) leverage employees from all organizational tiers via a selection committee, and (d) examine ethical issues in selecting senior leaders. Each topic contains an overview of the relative challenge while drawing a contrast between senior and junior leadership positions, as well as comparisons between the public and private sectors. These challenges are presented alongside best practices that should produce a more effective selection process. Taken together, this combined evidence should enable organizational success by ensuring that the highest quality candidates are selected into senior leadership positions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

选择公共部门的高级领导人:挑战和最佳实践。
尽管对领导者的仔细评估和选择对一个组织的成功很重要,但考虑到他们影响整个组织的潜力,选择高级领导者是至关重要的。虽然私营企业花费大量资源来招聘和留住高级领导,但公共部门却很难做到这一点,这反过来又影响了整个企业员工的态度和保留。例如,最近对美国联邦雇员进行的一项调查发现,大多数受访者不相信他们的高层领导能在员工中产生高水平的动力和承诺。因此,加强高级领导人的选拔过程是提高公共部门组织成功的绝佳机会。当前的讨论回顾了高级领导者选择的四个核心主题:(a)确定组织需求,(b)就高级领导者的能力达成一致,(c)通过选择委员会利用所有组织层级的员工,以及(d)审查选择高级领导者的道德问题。每个主题都包含相对挑战的概述,同时绘制高级和初级领导职位之间的对比,以及公共和私营部门之间的比较。这些挑战与应该产生更有效的选择过程的最佳实践一起提出。综上所述,这些综合证据应该通过确保选择最优秀的候选人进入高级领导职位来实现组织的成功。(PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2023 APA,版权所有)。
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Psychological Services
Psychological Services PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-
CiteScore
4.20
自引率
13.00%
发文量
216
期刊介绍: Psychological Services publishes high-quality data-based articles on the broad range of psychological services. While the Division"s focus is on psychologists in "public service," usually defined as being employed by a governmental agency, Psychological Services covers the full range of psychological services provided in any service delivery setting. Psychological Services encourages submission of papers that focus on broad issues related to psychotherapy outcomes, evaluations of psychological service programs and systems, and public policy analyses.
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