The city manager has contacted you regarding the following issues concerning various governmental departments and external stakeholders:

In the past year, citizen, department, and outside stakeholder complaints have been filed against the department of health administrators. Such complaints cited unprofessional leadership, unethical practices, insufficient customer and patient care, poor fire and emergency response time, and inability to implement change and resolve conflict within and amongst subordinates and staff. The department of health is composed of the following agencies: • social services, • fire and emergency management, and • human services.

• The school board has a collaborative relationship with various government departments. in the last two months, the school board has charged department directors with failure to work collaboratively with the school board on its efforts to: • meet federal mandates regarding reformation of new policy issues that will impact the leadership of the department of redevelopment and housing, the state department of education, and the state department of housing and urban development.

• Support the academic leadership of secondary school principals by providing specific student data from the department of juvenile relations, in an attempt to improve student retention and performance toward increase graduation rates.

Write a page paper in which you:

Determine one specific leadership theory and two to three public leader styles that would be most beneficial for the director of public health and related agencies in addressing the issues.

Recommend one specific leadership theory and two public leader styles that would be most beneficial for the school board in addressing the issues presented.

Determine the essential manner in which the leadership from the department of public health, the school board, and the various other government departments impacts the leadership of the city manager’s and his or her ability to carry out government operations.

Recommend two strategies that a public leader could use in order to overcome the weaknesses inherent in his / her leadership style(s).

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Leadership Theory and Styles Over the years much has been written about what it takes to be a leader Leaders are people in organizations institutions or whichever place where we have many people invol... View the full answer