"Det viktigaste är att få ledarna inom organisationerna till att samverka"

Since the late 1970s, public administrative management has increasingly been in-spired by corporate-inspired governance-models to have an effective management. The reforms came to be called New Public Management. Today modern manage-ment is facing new challenges and perhaps the New Public Leadership model may be the proper answer to these new challenges? This study examines Eslöv municipal administrative management based on the two concepts to see which ideals is represented in the Swedish municipal admin-istration. I conduct some interviews with centrally located manager directors in some of the municipality’s various departments to determine which administrative management ideals are represented. The study is a descriptive case study where we get to see how an Swedish local administration perceive challenges, the pur-pose of the public administration and the role of a leader in the public sector