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作者：Nielsen, Poul Aaes; Jacobsen, Christian Botcher
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; Aarhus University
摘要：Public sector employees have traditionally enjoyed substantial influence and bargaining power in organizational decision making, but few studies have investigated the formation of employee acceptance of management authority. Drawing on the romance of leadership perspective, the authors argue that performance information shapes employee attributions of leader quality and perceptions of a need for change in ways that affect their acceptance of management authority, conceptualized using Simon's n...
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作者：Trang Hoang; Goodman, Doug
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：An aging workforce and increasing retirement benefits are ongoing problems for states and municipalities. Unions are often blamed for governments offering too generous pension benefits. This contributes to budgetary pressures in some state and municipal governments. This article analyzes the impact of collective bargaining on pension benefit generosity under different economic conditions. The study finds that the impact of collective bargaining on pension benefits is not consistent over time o...
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作者：de Boer, Noortje; Eshuis, Jasper; Klijn, Erik-Hans
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Governments use different regulatory instruments to ensure that businesses owners or inspectees comply with rules and regulations. One tool that is increasingly applied is disclosing inspectees' performance information to other stakeholders. Disclosing performance information has consequences for street-level bureaucrats because it increases the visibility of their day-to-day work. Using a survey (n = 507) among Dutch inspectors of the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, th...
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作者：Raadschelders, Jos C. N.
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作者：Taylor, Jeannette
作者单位：University of Western Australia
摘要：Although employee reporting of workplace ethical violations is recognized as an important measure for managing the integrity of the public service, not many public employees who have observed ethical violations actually report them. This article examines and compares the links between employee perceptions of trustworthiness of different organizational members and internal whistle-blowing. It differentiates between trustworthy coworkers, supervisors, and senior managers. It uses cross-sectional...
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作者：Mikesell, John L.
摘要：Experience in state revenue forecasting humbles and educates the public finance scholar and can inform the public administrator. It teaches the limits of econometrics, the importance of disaggregation, the significance of tax administrators, the utility of causal models, the issue of data problems, the need to understand tax structure, the importance of consensus forecasts, the terror of recessions, and the reality of being wrong. In the Indiana consensus system, experience provides greater re...
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作者：Piotrowski, Suzanne; Rosenbloom, David H.; Kang, Sinah; Ingrams, Alex
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Renmin University of China; American University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Tilburg University
摘要：The Barack Obama administration advanced open government initiatives to make federal administration more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Yet a question remains whether federal administrators took notice. This article examines changes in the extent to which U.S. federal agencies have integrated the three core principles of open government-transparency, public participation, and collaboration-into their performance planning. By analyzing 337 annual performance plans of 24 major fe...
