Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Trang Thu Nguyen; Berman, Evan M.; Plimmer, Geoff; Samartini, Andre; Sabharwal, Meghna; Taylor, Jeannette
• 署名单位: Getulio Vargas Foundation; Victoria University Wellington; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Yonsei University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13495
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 1058-1076
• 关键词: organizational citizenship behavior; transformational leadership; service motivation; MEDIATING ROLE; performance; management; attitudes; reward; work; COMMITMENT

摘要

Past studies raise concerns that generic transactional leadership has low effectiveness and may reduce intrinsic motivations and commitments in the public sector. This study introduces public value-focused transactional leadership (PVTL) as transactional leadership that makes public values central in employee job expectations and rewards and fills gaps in transformational leadership. A dyadic study finds that managers using public values in transactional leadership have significantly greater leadership effectiveness than managers using only generic transactional leadership. PVTL has comparable effectiveness as transformational leadership and adds a process for strengthening motivations through public values. Recommendations are made for application and further research into this distinctive public sector leadership style. Evidence for Practice Public managers increase the effectiveness of their leadership practice by incorporating public values in transactional leadership. Incorporating public values is straightforward; it is done by clarifying the public value realized by task assignments and supporting and recognizing it in task fulfillment. Using public values in transactional leadership is associated with increased communication and understanding between supervisors and subordinates. Public-values focused transactional leadership has comparable effectiveness as transformational leadership and both can be used together for even greater effectiveness.