PUB-7022 v1

This chapter defines leadership, management, and other terms as well as articulates their respective roles and responsibilities. The chapter is helpful to students as allows for an understanding of key terms and responsibilites of leaders and managers.

This article discusses the roles and responsbilities of managers and leaders. The article is helpful to students as it is directly facilitates the student to understand key differences between managers and leaders.

This chapter discusses current factors in the public sector environment such as a changing workforce, critiques of unresponsive agencies, regulatory challenges, rapid technological change, fiscal and political stress, and the overall growing dissatisfaction and distrust surrounding governance in the U.S. The chapter is helpful to students as it provides an insightful overview of government’s complex environment and significant challenges that public agencies and their staff face.

This article discusses several leadership theories and how they apply to the public sector. The article is helpful to students as it relates to the information not included in the chapters assigned this week but important to set the stage for the Week 2 assignment.

This optional article helps students format specific documents. The article is helpful in case students are not familiar with a memo format, the format for the Week 2 Assignment.