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	Public Sector Leadership Assessment	Public Sector Innovation Assessment
Field	Public Administration	Public Administration
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2003	2008
Originator	Montgomery Van Wart	OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation
Type	Survey-based leadership competency assessment scale	Framework for assessing public-sector innovation and capacity
Seminal source	Van Wart, M. (2003). Public-Sector Leadership Theory: An Assessment. Public Administration Review, 63(2), 214–228.	OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI). Frameworks and case studies on public-sector innovation. Paris: OECD.
Aliases	Government Leadership Assessment, Public Leadership Competency Assessment, Public-Sector Leadership Evaluation, Administrative Leadership Assessment	Government Innovation Assessment, Public Innovation Measurement, Public-Sector Innovation Capacity Assessment, Innovation in Government Evaluation
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Summary	Public sector leadership assessment is a structured method for measuring the traits, behaviors, competencies and effectiveness of leaders in government and public organizations against an explicit leadership model. It draws on Montgomery Van Wart's influential 2003 synthesis of public-sector leadership theory, which integrated trait, behavioral, transformational and transactional traditions into a model tailored to the constraints of public service, alongside Bernard Bass's foundational work on transformational leadership. The assessment typically uses multi-rater (360-degree) surveys in which leaders, their supervisors, peers and subordinates rate observable behaviors, and the results feed both individual development and organizational leadership-capacity planning.	Public sector innovation assessment is a structured method for examining how, how much and how effectively a government organization innovates — generating and implementing novel services, processes, policies and governance arrangements that create public value. Drawing on the work of the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation and on Mark Moore and Jean Hartley's analysis of innovations in governance, it classifies the types of innovation under way, assesses the conditions that enable or block them, evaluates their outcomes, and rates the organization's innovation capacity. Unlike private-sector innovation metrics built around patents and market share, public-sector assessment centers on public value, legitimacy and the distinctive incentives and constraints of government.