Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 21st NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Civil Service Author(s) Aser Nica National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest Romania Title The role of leadership in public sector from Romania and Great Britain. Comparative study. File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Aser Nica Abstract Abstract. It has been argued that the West with its well-established democracies was largely responsible for the filling of the institutional vacuum the East experienced after the fall of totalitarian regimes in the eve of the 90s. Scholars of international relations and public policies loudly debated on the existent causality between the European enlargement and the administrative reforms that Central and Eastern European countries experienced during the last two decades. The subject of leadership represents one of the most significant items on the agendas of private and public sector organizations in both the developed and developing worlds. On a regular basis, this is caused by the challenges that organizations are facing in all sectors of constantly changing environments. In this article our intention is to research the role and development of leadership within the Romanian and British public administration both at present and in the future. Generally, Romania and Great Britain have noticed that there is a great discrepancy between how the public sector is perceived nowadays and how the national interest should be seen now or in the future. Romanian society, however, becomes more diverse and the public institutions are thus more flexible. The new situations require new types of organizers. The leaders involved in the public institutions can help the spread, the promotion and the maintenance of the new values that are necessary for a successful reform of the public sector. Even if there have been some attempts in these fields, Romania has not yet developed a systematic strategy of building-up the leadership as part of the reform process. In contrast to this situation, industrialized countries have already begun to elaborate such a strategy, and Great Britain is already using it. The research methodology is based on an empirical analysis. Thus, in order to be able to reach relevant conclusions I will apply in my analysis both qualitative and quantitative research methods. A theoretical part is followed by a legal framework and supported in the end by comparative study examples.
