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作者：Gorina, Evgenia; Trang Hoang
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Over the past decade, many states have reformed their retirement systems by reducing benefit generosity, tightening retirement provisions, introducing non-defined-benefit (DB) plan options and even replacing DB plans with defined-contribution plans. Many of these reforms have affected post-employment benefits that public workers will receive when they retire. Have these reforms also affected the attractiveness of public sector employment? To answer this question, we use state-level data from 2...
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作者：Petersen, Niels Bjorn G.
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Research has demonstrated how policy changes are bound to fail without the support of frontline employees. This study examines how performance information influences frontline employees' support for managerial policy initiatives. We develop hypotheses stating that the exposure to positive and negative organizational performance scores compared to average scores increases frontline employees' support for managerial policy initiatives and thus facilitate policy change. To test our hypotheses, we...
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作者：Elston, Thomas; Dixon, Ruth
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Administrative intensity (AI) describes the proportion of total resources that organizations spend on administrative support functions rather than primary service and production processes. We test whether sharing administrative activities between organizations leads to a fall in AI due to economies of scale, as is often supposed, using organizational and financial data from more than 300 English local authorities. We employ multi-wave change score regression analysis to relate changes in AI fr...
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作者：George, Bert
作者单位：Ghent University
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作者：Piatak, Jaclyn S.; Holt, Stephen B.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：In recent years, public service motivation (PSM) research has grown substantially, but is still largely limited to the field of public administration. To be able to export the theory and measures of PSM to other disciplines, we need more conceptual clarity. Some suggest PSM is analogous to altruism, whereas others warn not to confound the two concepts. Is PSM separate from altruism? How does each motivational construct relate to prosocial behaviors? We use a nationally representative panel of ...
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作者：Vogel, Dominik; Willems, Jurgen
作者单位：University of Hamburg; Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：Over the past decade, practitioners and scholars have intensified the discussions around people's expectations from their jobs and how public and private organizations can succeed in the war for talent. In this context, it has become obvious that people not only seek high salaries and career opportunities but also meaningfulness in their daily tasks. Although many public service jobs offer opportunities to help others (prosocial impact) or contribute to society (societal impact), employees ten...
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作者：Holt, Stephen B.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Sector differences in prosocial motivations and behaviors among workers receives a great deal of attention in public administration scholarship. Extant literature consistently finds public sector workers are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviors, such as volunteering, than their peers in the private sector. Less attention has been paid to the sector gap in volunteerism along the intensive margin. Using time-diary data, which accounts for potential social desirability bias, from a nation...
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作者：Baldwin, Elizabeth
作者单位：University of Arizona
摘要：In many policy arenas, decision makers have supplemented or even replaced traditional forms of bureaucratic decision making with more participatory approaches to governance. While theory suggests that participatory governance can have an instrumental effect on policy outcomes, there have been few efforts to systematically test these theories across multiple jurisdictions.This study asks whether and how participatory governance in electric sector regulation affects utilities' energy savings. Us...
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作者：Schinkel, Maarten Pieter; Toth, Lukas; Tuinstra, Jan
作者单位：University of Amsterdam
摘要：Government agencies have a certain freedom to choose among different possible courses of action. This article studies agency decision making on priorities in a principal-agent framework with multiple tasks. Agency leadership has discretion over part of the agency's budget to incentivize staff in the pickup of cases. The head is concerned not only with society's benefits from the agency's overall performance, but also with the organization's public image. Based on their talent and the contracts...
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作者：Thomsen, Mette Kjaergaard; Jensen, Ulrich Thy
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Involving volunteers in the production and delivery of public services is a core policy objective of governments around the world. While existing research on volunteer involvement in service production, for example, has focused on advantages and disadvantages of such involvement and different dimensions of volunteer involvement, little is known about service professionals' response to volunteer involvement in public service production. Integrating perspectives from multiple theories, we build ...
