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作者:Ates, H
摘要:This article explores the impact of public sector managerialism, and specifically the government's strategy of encouraging managers to adopt business values and associated behaviors, on cultural change in the Turkish health sector. The Turkish case provides a model of interdependence between managerial initiatives and cultural change, in that the government has tried to win over the hearts and minds of staff to a new attitude and style and has striven to overcome resistance from managers in a ...
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作者:Kettl, DF
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
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作者:Hill, CJ
作者单位:Georgetown University
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作者:Schneider, M
摘要:Professional judges receive a fixed salary and are largely exempt from effective sanctions. How can management induce judges to perform well in their professional roles? Judges share work-related norms and values, derive status from their standing within the professional community, and are susceptible to peer review. Therefore, performance management may be perceived as maintaining and directing organizational culture, as is illustrated empirically in a case study covering the Division of Judg...
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作者:Wright, BE
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要:The present study represents a test of a conceptual model predicting how the organization's work context might influence work motivation. Using the framework provided by goal and social cognitive theories, this model of work motivation assesses whether aspects of the organizational work context, such as greater goal conflict, procedural constraints, and goal ambiguity, may have a detrimental effect on work motivation through their influence on three important antecedents of work motivation: jo...
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作者单位:University of Birmingham
摘要:In many Western countries, policy makers are making greater efforts toward improving horizontal coordination and integration between departments and agencies within government than seemed to be the case in the mid-1980s. Joined up government is a slogan that originated in the United Kingdom but has been widely picked up elsewhere. However, not all countries are joining up, and those that are are not all doing it in the same way. After setting out some basic definitions of terms, several of the...
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作者:Nicholson-Crotty, S; O'Toole, LJ Jr
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要:Investigating the impact of management on performance in public organizations is a key challenge for public administration. To that end, we apply to a national sample of law enforcement agencies a recently developed formal model of public management. The model frames a set of specific expectations about the management-performance relationship. The study estimates the impacts of both internally- and externally-oriented managerial activities on a salient metric of law enforcement outcomes. in re...