Australia

A basic premise of this chapter is that public service leadership is substantially a product of administrative culture, which in turn is reflected in how senior public servants are trained. The extent to which administrative culture is a decisive factor and how training shapes leadership development needs to be explored against the backdrop of a country’s political structure and public management paradigms that contextualize, focus, and channel the institutions and programs for developing the capabilities of senior public servants. The training model for a public service system is also subject to internal perspectives about the provision of training and development, agency needs, and conceptions of leadership.