The Role of Canadian City Managers -

The Role of Canadian City Managers

In Their Own Words
Buch | Softcover
376 Seiten
2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5232-9 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
This collection sheds light on local government and public administration by providing insights from city managers across Canada.
Local government has rapidly become both more important and more complex and the quality of municipal management is becoming more significant every day as local governments deal with a vast array of organizational and community challenges.

The Role of Canadian City Managers brings together experienced city managers and municipal chief administrative officers (CAOs) across Canada to analyse the daily issues that they face. Each chapter deals with a particular issue or challenge, such as council/staff relations, collaborative initiatives, and crisis readiness. The book contributes to the literature on local government and public administration by providing insights from the "real time" lived experiences of city managers, spoken in their own words. The book also speculates about the contemporary leadership role of the city manager and the future of the city management profession.

The Role of Canadian City Managers is a useful resource for scholars and students of local government and public administration, as well as public servants who work with or aspire to leadership roles within local government.

Michael Fenn has been an Ontario Deputy Minister, municipal CAO of Hamilton Region and Burlington in Ontario, and founding CEO of Toronto-area transportation and health authorities. Gordon McIntosh is adjunct faculty at the University of Victoria, a sessional instructor in the School of Business at the University of British Columbia, and a sessional instructor in the School of Leadership at Royal Roads University. David Siegel is a professor emeritus of political science at Brock University.

Introduction

1. The City Management Profession: More than a Job
Janice Baker

2. Aspirational Incrementalism: Developing a Vision
Bruce Macgregor and David Szwarc

3. Building Support for Strategic Planning and Priorities
Chris MacPherson

4. Using Your First 100 Days Strategically
Patrick Moyle and Hassaan Basit

5. The Challenge of Leading Up: Strategic Alignment with Council
Jeff Fielding and Kate Graham

6. Council/Staff Relations: Forward Motion or Spinning Wheels?
Tammy Crowder

7. The Most Important Relationship in Local Government: Mayor and City Manager
Bill Given

8. City Manager and Mayor: Independent or Partners?
Carl Zehr

9. What Does Diversity-Inclusion Look Like in Action?
Shirley Hoy

10. Diversity from Bottom to Top: The City Manager and Workforce Diversity
Sheila Bassi-Kellett

11. Indigenous and Municipal Relationships: The Art of Collaboration
Ann Mitchell

12. The Gift of Clarity and the Freedom to Innovate
Robert Earl

13. Rowers, Coasters, and Drillers: How Team-Building Can Improve Your Crew
John Leeburn

14. Five Strategies for Successful Municipal Intergovernmental Relations
John E. Fleming

15. Leading Beyond: Building Relationships for Intergovernmental Collaboration
Gail Stephens and Zack Taylor

16. Resilience in a Crisis: Towards an “Antifragile” Organization – The Case of Gatineau
Marie-Hélène Lajoie and Pierre Prévost

17. Managing during a Crisis: Lessons from Fort McMurray
Jamie Doyle and Don Lidstone

18. Building Partnerships: Hard Work, Patience, Commitment, Adaptation, and Opportunities
Jag Sharma

19. Nurturing the Community’s Soul Source
Linda Rapp

20. Community Development: Navigating the Rocky Shoals of Community Change
Robert Buchan

21. From Dreams of Being a Rock-and-Roll Drummer to City Manager
David Calder

22. A City Manager’s Career Journey
John Burke

23. Mentoring: Building the Next Generation of Municipal Professionals
Tony Haddad, Gerard Lewis, and Jim Pine

24. The Canadian City Manager
Michael Fenn, Gordon McIntosh, and David Siegel

List of Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 8 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 226 mm
Gewicht 460 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 1-4875-5232-7 / 1487552327
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-5232-9 / 9781487552329
Zustand Neuware
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