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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 (2) 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.

Note: You may create and / or make
all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this
assignment.

Use the basic outline below to draft your
paper. Organize your responses to each question (except Question 5) under the
following section headings:

  • Public Leadership in a Health Environment
    (for Question 1)
  • Public Leadership in an Educational
    Environment (for Question 2)
  • Public  Leadership in Government Operations
    (for Question 3)
  • Improving Public Leadership Styles (for
    Question 4)

Write a seven to eight (7-8) page paper in
which you:

  1. Determine one (1) specific leadership theory
    and two to three (2-3) public leader styles that would be most beneficial for
    the Director of Public Health and related agencies in addressing the issues.
    Provide a rationale to support your response.
  2. Recommend one (1) specific leadership theory
    and two (2) public leader styles that would be most beneficial for the School
    Board in addressing the issues presented. Provide a rationale for your
    response.
  3. 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.
  4. Recommend two (2) strategies that a public
    leader could use in order to overcome the weaknesses inherent in his / her
    leadership style(s).
  5. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed
    references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook.
    Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly
    articles and governmental Websites. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other
    websites ending in anything other than “.gov” do not qualify as academic
    resources.