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作者：Vangen, Siv; Huxham, Chris
作者单位：Open University - UK; University of Strathclyde
摘要：This article addresses a goals paradox that suggests that both congruence and diversity in organizations' goals influence success in collaboration. Using extensive empirical data, we develop a framework that portrays goals as an entangled, dynamic, and ambiguously hierarchical web of variously perceived, higher- and lower-level goals that can be characterized across six dimensions: level, origin, authenticity, relevance, content, and overtness. We then explore the paradox in terms of the frame...
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作者：Vigoda-Gadot, Eran; Beeri, Itai
作者单位：University of Haifa
摘要：Using a well-grounded theory of organizational citizenship behavior, this study attempts to extend the meaning of the good soldier syndrome beyond its common boundaries of the business sector. We follow Bettencourt's (2004) conceptualization and model of change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) to explain why and how public employees engage in activities targeted at changing and improving the public work environment and its job processes even when no formal rewards are offered...
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作者：Rubin, Ellen V.; Kellough, J. Edward
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Current literature on civil service reform lacks any studies that examine how these reforms impact employee behavior. The research presented here links the presence of alternative personnel systems and perceptions of procedural justice in 2005 to the rates at which complaints were filed in 2006 in the federal government, after controlling for the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Among the findings, agencies with alternative personnel systems exhibit lower complaint rates as compare...
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作者：Grissom, Jason A.; Nicholson-Crotty, Jill; Keiser, Lael
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：Substantial literatures exist examining public personnel turnover and the role of gender in public management. We bring these two strands of research together to test hypotheses concerning the impact of manager gender on the job satisfaction and turnover of public sector workers. In particular, we test whether manager gender influences satisfaction and turnover per se versus the competing claim that gender congruence between managers and employees, regardless of gender, is the relevant constru...
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作者：Herian, Mitchel N.; Hamm, Joseph A.; Tomkins, Alan J.; Zillig, Lisa M. Pytlik
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：The purpose of this article is to test whether the use of public participation by a local government increases perceptions of procedural fairness among the public and to propose an explanation for why fairness is a strong predictor of satisfaction with governmental decisions. To do this, we draw on the uncertainty management model to hypothesize that indications of procedural fairness can increase public support for government and its decisions and that fairness effects are greater for individ...
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作者：Mosley, Jennifer E.
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：Human service nonprofits have historically played an important role in advocating on behalf of the vulnerable populations that they serve. Growth in privatization has led many scholars and practitioners to wonder if increased dependence on government funds would compromise this role. The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between government funding and advocacy participation, goals, and tactics through a qualitative investigation of advocacy involvement in the field of home...
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作者：Neshkova, Milena I.; Guo, Hai (David)
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Public participation in administrative decision making has been widely advocated by both theorists and practitioners of public administration. Despite the importance of citizen engagement, we know little about its impact on the performance of government agencies. Is participation only normatively desirable or does it have some practical value attached to it? We draw on data from U. S. state transportation agencies to test the relevance of two theoretical perspectives about the effect of public...
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作者：Meynhardt, Timo; Diefenbach, Fabian E.
作者单位：University of St Gallen
摘要：Along with the introduction of private sector management tools, public servants are expected to act more entrepreneurially-as public managers. However, research lacks quantitative evidence on what drives entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in this context. Our article examines the antecedents of department-level EO in public sector organizations. By integrating different research streams into one study, we combine partly opposing discourses. This deductive study develops and empirically tests hyp...
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作者：Donahue, Amy K.; O'Leary, Rosemary
作者单位：University of Connecticut; Syracuse University
摘要：The 50-year history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) spaceflight program is marked by spectacular accomplishments and devastating tragedy. NASA has suffered three major disasters, each of which destroyed a spacecraft and killed its crew. In the wake of each accident, investigators and analysts identified causes and recommended technical and organizational improvements that NASA should undertake. The NASA case presents an opportunity to examine the question: Do shoc...
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作者：Lamothe, Meeyoung; Lamothe, Scott
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Relational contracting or collaborative governance has come to the forefront of scholarly studies of government privatization efforts. The concept of trust (between contracting governments and their vendors) is rising in importance as one of the central tenets of this type of governance. What is largely understudied in the midst of this increasing attention to the topic is identifying how and under what conditions trust is formed and sustained. Borrowing from economic, organizational, sociolog...
