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作者：Gifford, David; Cheek, Mike
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作者：van der Wal, Zeger
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：This article explores how work motivations differ between administrative and political elites, based on 94 qualitative interviews conducted in the Netherlands, European Union, and United States. Both elite groups are primarily motivated in their initial choice of public service by wanting to contribute to, serve, or improve society; job content, career opportunities, political ideals, and personal background are also important motivators. Once in public service, serving society remains importa...
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作者：Fernandez, Sergio; Moldogaziev, Tima
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：The last three decades have witnessed the spread of employee empowerment practices throughout the public and private sectors. A growing body of evidence suggests that employee empowerment can be used to improve job satisfaction, organizational commitment, innovativeness, and performance. Nearly all previous empirical studies have analyzed the direct effects of employee empowerment on these outcome variables without taking into account the mediating role of employee attitudes. This article cont...
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作者：Frumkin, Peter
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
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作者：Waring, Justin; Currie, Graeme; Bishop, Simon
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Warwick
摘要：Publicprivate partnerships (PPPs) have become a prominent feature of contemporary public policy. Although research shows variation in the contractual configuration of partnerships, there is little evidence of how these shape service and workforce organization. Through comparative ethnographic research on two PPP health care providers in the English National Health Service, this article develops the idea that PPPs exhibit tight and loose arrangements that relate to downstream service and workfo...
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作者：Mergel, Ines; Desouza, Kevin C.
作者单位：Syracuse University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：As part of the Open Government Initiative, the Barack Obama administration has called for new forms of collaboration with stakeholders to increase the innovativeness of public service delivery. Federal managers are employing a new policy instrument called Challenge.gov to implement open innovation concepts invented in the private sector to crowdsource solutions from previously untapped problem solvers and to leverage collective intelligence to tackle complex social and technical public managem...
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作者：Rocco, Philip
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者：Liebert, Saltanat; Ameringer, Carl F.
作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University; Virginia Commonwealth University
摘要：There are currently more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States; the majority of them are of Hispanic origin. This article shows that Hispanic immigrants in the Greater Richmond, Virginia, area rely heavily on free clinics for basic health care services. Free clinics do not receive any public funding and thus face reduced government regulation. As a result, these clinics typically present fewer barriers to undocumented immigrants seeking care. Although free clinics functi...
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作者：Thomas, John Clayton
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Scholars and practitioners have long debated what role the public should play in public management. When members of the public interact with the administrative side of government, should they be treated as customers, as citizens, or in some other manner? This article takes as its premise that members of the public assume three principal roles relative to public management: as customers, as partners, and as citizens. After placing these roles in the context of the history of public administrati...
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作者：Reilly, William K.
