2019年2月11日 · Heads of international organizations (IOs) personify their organization. They are often the only public figures from their organizations who are widely recognized. This chapter seeks to identify the ways that directors-general can exercise their influence.

2016年12月1日 · After a section establishing the value in focusing on international Secretariats and Executive Heads in this context, the chapter follows the evolution of IGOs and their IORs by tracing the place of Secretariats and the leadership role of Executive Heads to discern four developments of IORs in chronological order: 1. 2. 3. 4.

2017年11月23日 · It then analyses the three roles that the leaders of IOs, to a greater or lesser extent, must play. They are diplomats dealing with state leaders and talking in international forums. They are politicians negotiating with the state representatives on a daily basis. They are managers heading an often large secretariat.

and their IORs by tracing the place of Secretariats and the leadership role of Executive Heads to discern four developments of IORs in chronological order: 1. the emergence of IGO Secretariats and some early IORs; 2. the League of Nations specialized agency relationship and the leadership role of Executive Heads in IORs; 3.

The study of international organization has frequently involved a discussion of the skills necessary for effective leadership. Such an orientation flows from the notion that effective leadership may be ‘the most critical single determinant of the growth in …

International organizations (IOs) and institu-tions (IIs) have become an increasingly common phenomenon of international life. The proliferation of IOs, the growth in treaty arrangements among states, and the deepen-ing of regional integration efforts in Europe and in other parts of the world all represent formal expressions of the extent to which

2003年2月13日 · This study reveals that such approaches can provide analytical leverage for examining executive heads of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). The personal characteristics of six United Nations Secretaries–General and four European Union Commission Presidents were measured via content analysis of their responses to questions.

2017年1月1日 · Heads of international organisations (IOs) face serious challenges in leading these so-called memberdriven organisations. This paper discusses the qualities regarded as necessary for their successful tenure, stressing the need for trust, expertise, and legitimacy.

Executive heads of international organizations, unlike leaders of other national public institutions, have a particularly challenging role as they must balance a wide range of competing interests not only among staff, civil society and beneficiaries, but also among Hall and Woods 3 states (Reinalda and Verbeek, 2013).

2018年12月1日 · We argue that leaders can navigate and push back on each of these constraints and provide illustrations of this, drawing on existing literature and interviews with executive heads and senior management of international organizations. Executive heads of international organizations may operate in a constrained environment but this should not stop ...