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作者：Anessi-Pessina, Eugenio; Sicilia, Mariafrancesca
作者单位：Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; University of Bergamo
摘要：Drawing on upper echelons theory, the article investigates the potential impact of top managers' background and demographic characteristics and personality traits on organizational decisions in the public sector. The top-management figure being investigated is the municipal chief financial officer (CFO) and the specific organizational decision under analysis is the extent of revenue misrepresentation during both budget formulation and execution. The empirical setting is provided by the CFOs of...
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作者：Brans, Marleen; Pickering, Heath
作者单位：KU Leuven
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作者：Vanderschuere, Matthew
作者单位：American University
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作者：Gorina, Evgenia; Trang Hoang
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Over the past decade, many states have reformed their retirement systems by reducing benefit generosity, tightening retirement provisions, introducing non-defined-benefit (DB) plan options and even replacing DB plans with defined-contribution plans. Many of these reforms have affected post-employment benefits that public workers will receive when they retire. Have these reforms also affected the attractiveness of public sector employment? To answer this question, we use state-level data from 2...
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作者：Petersen, Niels Bjorn G.
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Research has demonstrated how policy changes are bound to fail without the support of frontline employees. This study examines how performance information influences frontline employees' support for managerial policy initiatives. We develop hypotheses stating that the exposure to positive and negative organizational performance scores compared to average scores increases frontline employees' support for managerial policy initiatives and thus facilitate policy change. To test our hypotheses, we...
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作者：Elston, Thomas; Dixon, Ruth
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Administrative intensity (AI) describes the proportion of total resources that organizations spend on administrative support functions rather than primary service and production processes. We test whether sharing administrative activities between organizations leads to a fall in AI due to economies of scale, as is often supposed, using organizational and financial data from more than 300 English local authorities. We employ multi-wave change score regression analysis to relate changes in AI fr...
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作者：George, Bert
作者单位：Ghent University
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作者：Piatak, Jaclyn S.; Holt, Stephen B.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：In recent years, public service motivation (PSM) research has grown substantially, but is still largely limited to the field of public administration. To be able to export the theory and measures of PSM to other disciplines, we need more conceptual clarity. Some suggest PSM is analogous to altruism, whereas others warn not to confound the two concepts. Is PSM separate from altruism? How does each motivational construct relate to prosocial behaviors? We use a nationally representative panel of ...
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作者：Vogel, Dominik; Willems, Jurgen
作者单位：University of Hamburg; Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：Over the past decade, practitioners and scholars have intensified the discussions around people's expectations from their jobs and how public and private organizations can succeed in the war for talent. In this context, it has become obvious that people not only seek high salaries and career opportunities but also meaningfulness in their daily tasks. Although many public service jobs offer opportunities to help others (prosocial impact) or contribute to society (societal impact), employees ten...
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作者：Holt, Stephen B.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Sector differences in prosocial motivations and behaviors among workers receives a great deal of attention in public administration scholarship. Extant literature consistently finds public sector workers are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviors, such as volunteering, than their peers in the private sector. Less attention has been paid to the sector gap in volunteerism along the intensive margin. Using time-diary data, which accounts for potential social desirability bias, from a nation...
