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作者:Pitts, David; Marvel, John; Fernandez, Sergio
作者单位:American University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:Why do U.S. federal government employees choose to leave the federal service? By focusing on turnover intentions, this article develops propositions about why employees anticipate leaving their jobs along three dimensions: (1) demographic factors, (2) workplace satisfaction factors, and (3) organizational/relational factors. Two distinct measures of turnover intention are advanced that reflect those who intend to leave their agency for another position within the federal government and those w...
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作者:Liu, Bang-Cheng; Tang, Thomas Li-Ping
作者单位:Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Middle Tennessee State University; University of Hong Kong
摘要:To what extent do attitudes toward money-specifically, the love of money-moderate the relationship between public service motivation and job satisfaction among public sector professionals in China? The authors collected data from full-time public sector professionals who also were part-time students in a master of public administration program in eastern China. After confirmatory factor analyses, the regression results show that a public servant's love of money moderates the relationship betwe...
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作者:Kim, Jungin; Wiggins, Mary Ellen
作者单位:Seoul National University (SNU); University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要:The balance between work and family plays a pivotal but evolving role in human resource policy. Ensuring that human resource policy responds to rapidly changing American family demographics, particularly the recent sharp increase in single unmarried Americans, is a major challenge. Compensation policy long has focused on family-oriented values by promising increased capacity to provide for a family in exchange for higher work performance. Now, employees are voicing concerns about matters such ...
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作者:Kouzmin, Alexander
作者单位:Southern Cross University; Southern Cross University; University of South Australia
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作者:Roberts, Nancy C.
作者单位:United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School
摘要:What accounts for coordination problems? Many mechanisms of coordination exist in both organizations and networks, yet despite their widespread use, coordination challenges persist. Some believe the challenges are growing even more serious. One answer lies in understanding that coordination is not a free good; it is expensive in terms of time, effort, and attention, or what economists call transaction and administrative costs. An alternative to improving coordination is to reduce its costs, ye...
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作者:Walker, Richard M.; Brewer, Gene A.; Boyne, George A.; Avellaneda, Claudia N.
作者单位:City University of Hong Kong; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Cardiff University; Cardiff University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要:The backbone of theory of the market-based approach New Public Management is that market orientation improves public service performance. In this article, market orientation is operationalized through the dominant theoretical framework in the business literature: competitor orientation, customer orientation, and interfunctional coordination. Market orientation is examined from the vantage point of three stakeholder groups in English local government: citizens, public servants, and the central ...
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作者:Alkadry, Mohamad G.; Tower, Leslie E.
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida International University; West Virginia University; West Virginia University
摘要:Research repeatedly highlights the gap between male and female earnings across the public and private sectors. The authors address an overlooked manifestation of pay discrimination against women in the labor market. Using a survey of 384 public sector chief procurement officers, they analyze the indirect effects of gender on women's pay through the intervening variable of authority. Gender affects the amount of authority that is delegated to an employee, which, in turn, affects the variance in...