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作者：Perez-Lopez, Gemma; Prior, Diego; Zafra-Gomez, Jose L.
作者单位：University of Granada; Autonomous University of Barcelona
摘要：With the increase in public services offered at the local level and heightened budgetary and financial constraints on local government, new ways of managing local public services must be sought, in order to maximize the efficiency of resource management. Accordingly, local governments have introduced organizational changes, through contracting out, the creation of public agencies, and increased cooperation with other municipalities and private companies. However, previous studies have only exa...
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作者：Marwell, Nicole P.; Calabrese, Thad
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); New York University
摘要：Much existing scholarship on nonprofit organizations' receipt of government funds appears to assume that there is something highly problematic about this relationship. Although rarely articulated in these studies, the concern about the negative effects of government funding turns on a view of nonprofits that privileges their private character. In this article, rather than examining how public funds constrain private action, we inquire about how government deploys private organizations, via the...
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作者：Meier, Kenneth J.; Favero, Nathan; Zhu, Ling
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Cardiff University; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：An extensive literature finds that managerial decisions matter for the performance of public organizations, yet little attention has been devoted to why managers make the decisions that they do. This article builds a theory of public management decision making based on the simple assumption that managers are concerned with performance and the performance gaps of their organization. Using a logic borrowed from bounded rationality and Bayesian decision theory, we theorize a set of prior expectat...
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作者：Tummers, Lars L. G.; Bekkers, Victor; Vink, Evelien; Musheno, Michael
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Frontline workers, such as teachers and social workers, often experience stress when delivering public services to clients, for instance because of high workloads. They adapt by coping, using such practices as breaking or bending rules for clients, or rationing services. Although coping is recognized as an important response to the problems of frontline work, the public administration field lacks a comprehensive view of coping. The first contribution of this article is therefore theoretical: c...
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作者：Hassan, Shahidul; Hatmaker, Deneen M.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Connecticut
摘要：Few studies in public management have assessed whether managerial leadership has any influence on job performance of public employees. This study employs a well-established theory of leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, to consider the effects of the manager-employee relationship on ratings of employee in-role and extra-role performance. It also investigates how differences in gender between the manager and employee and duration of their relationship may influence the effects of LM...
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作者：Nielsen, Vibeke Lehmann
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Do men and women carry out the same jobs differently? Based on a unique data set from six different Danish public occupations and building on sociological and neurological gender studies together with institutionalism and studies on individual diversity in street-level bureaucrats' behavior, the article argues and empirically demonstrates how the gender of public employees affects their behavior, but that the effect is conditioned by the regulative institutions of the specific task. Next, the ...
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作者：Yi, Chengzhi
作者单位：East China University Political Science & Law
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作者：Bhatti, Yosef; Gortz, Mette; Pedersen, Lene Holm
作者单位：University of Copenhagen
摘要：The present article finds that the causal effect of profound organizational change on employee health can be very low, if job insecurity is mitigated. We demonstrate this by investigating a rare case of a large-scale radical public sector reform with low job insecurity, in which a large number of municipalities are merged into larger local governments, whereas other municipalities are not merged. This adds to previous research, which documents that organizational changes following public secto...
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作者：Kiefer, Tina; Hartley, Jean; Conway, Neil; Briner, Rob B.
作者单位：University of Warwick; Open University - UK; University of London; University of Bath
摘要：Fiscal austerity is having major impacts on public service organizations, but little is known about the effects of these changes on employees' well-being, attitudes, and behaviors. Following a major UK national government announcement of budget reductions, we conducted a longitudinal field study of employees in diverse public sector organizations across the United Kingdom to address how the communication and the implementation of this external policy event affected employees. We ask two questi...
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作者：Giannetto, Leila
作者单位：University of Trento
