Leadership theory

LEADERSHIP MODELS AND COMPETENCY FRAMEWORKS

This section of the report will look at some different leadership models and frameworks used in practice across the public and private sector organisations. The chosen models were selected as the organisations were known to researchers at the Centre for Leadership Studies and/or details of the framework were publicly available. They are not intended to represent a comprehensive, or even representative, sample of available frameworks but rather a preliminary examination of readily available materials. The inclusion of a particular framework does not necessarily indicate that it is in any way assumed “better” or more “typical” than those that were not included and, indeed, there may well be many excellent models which have not been discussed.

To many participating organisations the material reviewed represents an element of their “competitive advantage” and is thus confidential. We have therefore chosen in this report, not to include the full framework but simply to refer to the key elements. Where further information is available on the Internet we have included the web address.

For ease of presentation, they have been divided into private-sector, public-sector and generic (crosssectoral) frameworks.

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