3.05 Leadership to create public value

Academic team: Prof Jean Hartley, Quoc Vo, Jim Beashel, Dr Steven Parker, Dr Loua Kahlil, Dr Mariafrancesca Sicilia
Policing partners: Gwent Police, British Transport Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary
Status: Complete

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The National Police Chiefs Council Chair, Sara Thornton, has suggested that “Public value theory prompts us to think about the value we are trying to create. What outcomes are we delivering for the citizen?.....So what are the police for? What is the value we are trying to create in policing?”.

It is important that measures of added value go beyond the counting of activities, or even the counting of outputs (e.g. stop and search, number of arrests or convictions) to include ways in which public organisations contributed to the wider aims of society. For example, creating a fair, just or peaceful society or enabling citizens to live confident, safe and fulfilling lives.

Police leaders have to navigate how to achieve valuable outcomes for society, and this research project explores this through the lens of public value. The research commenced with a literature review examining the relevance of public value to policing. The field work involved case studies, which also use observation and other data collection from the police and the public. Three questions were explored:

How do police leaders perceive and conceptualise public value (perhaps in different language) in complex and contested situations?
Does political astuteness help leaders to create public value?
How far do police and public have similar or different views about public value and how is that handled by leaders?

Outputs

Title	Output type	Lead academic	Year
Leadership for public value: Political astuteness as a conceptual link	Book chapter	Hartley, J	2019
Leading and recognizing public value	Journal article	Hartley, J	2019
Ten propositions about public leadership	Journal article	Hartley, J	2018
Towards an empirical research agenda for public value theory	Journal article	Hartley, J	2017
Leadership to create public value: a case study of a multi-agency victims hub	Paper	Beashel, J	2017
Leadership to create public value and Q-methodology	Video	Vo, Q	2017
Leadership with political astuteness	Conference paper	Hartley, J	2017
Public value at the cross-roads: a systematic literature review	Literature review	Hartley, J	2017
On course? The leadership of a rural crime initiative	Conference paper	Parker, S	2017
Leadership to create public value: a case study of an initiative to address rural crime	Paper	Parker, S	2017
Leadership to create public value in complex and contested situations	Conference paper	Parker, S	2017
Using Q to asess public value	Conference paper	Vo, Q	2017
Understanding public value through policing priorities using Q methodology	Final report	Vo, Q	2017
Understanding public value through policing priorities using Q methodology	Executive summary	Vo, Q	2017
Towards a multi-actor theory of public value co-creation	Journal article	Bryson, J	2016
Public value: a new approach to demand in policing	Thought paper	Hartley, J	2015
Public value: a new means to peel an apple?	Conference paper	Hartley, J	2015