Center Projects

Value-Adding Development of Organizational Collaboration

The project examines the effects of three different development courses for managers and employees from the police force, sheltered residences and hospitals. During the project period, September 2019-April 2023... Click here to read more:

Leader Identity

The project is a first in a long series of projects with focus on doctors’ roles as managers and their understanding of managing, which can contribute to developing a cohesive understanding of leadership development and leadership... Click here to read more:

Managing Organizational Cohesion

Public organizations are increasingly challenged on their ability to work across organizational borders. This is especially the case in the health sector where the quality of treatments and patient care are highly dependent on collaboration... Click here to read more:

Recruitment Practices in Public Organizations

Recruitment is one of the most important management tasks. Employees are the core resource in almost all public organizations, and the organizations’ results depend on the employees’ competences, motivation and effort... Click here to read more:

Data-Informed Visionary Leadership

The Center and Aarhus Municipality’s Department for Health and Care examine whether data-informed visionary leadership works best in combination with contingent verbal rewards or with distributed leadership. The objective is... Click here to read more:

Span of Control in Health Care Organizations

We address the need for additional studies on how span of control affects leaders and their employ-ees. Specifically, we know very little on whether the consequences of a given span of control will be different across different organizational set ups... Click here to read more:

Digitized Interaction in Public Organizations (REPLACE)

Digital technologies have become completely integrated in our work life. “Everyday technologies” like video, cell phones, e-mail, intranet and digital casework systems are both indispensable and inevitable. Especially when employees... Click here to read more:

The National Leadership Evaluation Initiative

As part of the 2019 agreement between the Danish Government, Local Government Denmark and Danish Regions on “leadership and competences in the public sector”, Crown Prince Frederik Center for Public Leadership currently... Click here to read more:

Understanding and Improving Data-Informed Decision Making

Data on processes, performance, and challenges of public organizations is increasingly collected and made available. The promises of using big data and data-informed decision making are frequently heralded as prerequisites in... Click here to read more:

Effects of Professional Collaboration in Public Schools

This research project will examine different forms of professional collaboration in Danish public schools and their effects on student and teacher outcomes. The objective is to identify how professional collaboration can improve student... Click here to read more:

Matterhorn – Leadership of Well-being and Psychological Working Environment

A good psychological working environment is essential for a well-functioning health care system, and it thus essential for leaders to have knowledge and competencies with regard to handling topics such as addressing psychosocial risk factors, stress- and lack of well-being among employees securing well-being and a good working environment for the leaders themselves. Click here to read more:

Digital Recruiting of European Labor for Danish Public Health Organizations

We apply the new megastudy approach (Milkman et al., 2021; Nature) and realize a massive field experiment in order to simultaneously evaluate and compare the effectiveness of several different interventions on objectively measured recruitment outcomes like interest in a job and actual applications.