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作者：Rubin, Ellen V.; Kellough, J. Edward
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Current literature on civil service reform lacks any studies that examine how these reforms impact employee behavior. The research presented here links the presence of alternative personnel systems and perceptions of procedural justice in 2005 to the rates at which complaints were filed in 2006 in the federal government, after controlling for the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Among the findings, agencies with alternative personnel systems exhibit lower complaint rates as compare...
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作者：Grissom, Jason A.; Nicholson-Crotty, Jill; Keiser, Lael
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：Substantial literatures exist examining public personnel turnover and the role of gender in public management. We bring these two strands of research together to test hypotheses concerning the impact of manager gender on the job satisfaction and turnover of public sector workers. In particular, we test whether manager gender influences satisfaction and turnover per se versus the competing claim that gender congruence between managers and employees, regardless of gender, is the relevant constru...
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作者：Herian, Mitchel N.; Hamm, Joseph A.; Tomkins, Alan J.; Zillig, Lisa M. Pytlik
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：The purpose of this article is to test whether the use of public participation by a local government increases perceptions of procedural fairness among the public and to propose an explanation for why fairness is a strong predictor of satisfaction with governmental decisions. To do this, we draw on the uncertainty management model to hypothesize that indications of procedural fairness can increase public support for government and its decisions and that fairness effects are greater for individ...
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作者：Mosley, Jennifer E.
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：Human service nonprofits have historically played an important role in advocating on behalf of the vulnerable populations that they serve. Growth in privatization has led many scholars and practitioners to wonder if increased dependence on government funds would compromise this role. The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between government funding and advocacy participation, goals, and tactics through a qualitative investigation of advocacy involvement in the field of home...
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作者：Neshkova, Milena I.; Guo, Hai (David)
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Public participation in administrative decision making has been widely advocated by both theorists and practitioners of public administration. Despite the importance of citizen engagement, we know little about its impact on the performance of government agencies. Is participation only normatively desirable or does it have some practical value attached to it? We draw on data from U. S. state transportation agencies to test the relevance of two theoretical perspectives about the effect of public...
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作者：Meynhardt, Timo; Diefenbach, Fabian E.
作者单位：University of St Gallen
摘要：Along with the introduction of private sector management tools, public servants are expected to act more entrepreneurially-as public managers. However, research lacks quantitative evidence on what drives entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in this context. Our article examines the antecedents of department-level EO in public sector organizations. By integrating different research streams into one study, we combine partly opposing discourses. This deductive study develops and empirically tests hyp...
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作者：Donahue, Amy K.; O'Leary, Rosemary
作者单位：University of Connecticut; Syracuse University
摘要：The 50-year history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) spaceflight program is marked by spectacular accomplishments and devastating tragedy. NASA has suffered three major disasters, each of which destroyed a spacecraft and killed its crew. In the wake of each accident, investigators and analysts identified causes and recommended technical and organizational improvements that NASA should undertake. The NASA case presents an opportunity to examine the question: Do shoc...
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作者：Lamothe, Meeyoung; Lamothe, Scott
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Relational contracting or collaborative governance has come to the forefront of scholarly studies of government privatization efforts. The concept of trust (between contracting governments and their vendors) is rising in importance as one of the central tenets of this type of governance. What is largely understudied in the midst of this increasing attention to the topic is identifying how and under what conditions trust is formed and sustained. Borrowing from economic, organizational, sociolog...
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作者：Binderkrantz, Anne Skorkjaer; Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Public management reform has drawn inspiration from principal agent theory and private management, and a favored reform strategy has been civil service reform that strongly recommends pay-for-performance. The hypothesis tested in this paper is that the incentive effect will improve public sector management. The basis is the performance management system introduced in Danish central government where access to both performance and pay data provides us with unique behavioral data. The system comb...
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作者：Gerlak, Andrea K.; Heikkilay, Tanya
作者单位：University of Arizona; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; University of Colorado Denver; Children's Hospital Colorado
摘要：Many of society's most vexing problems must be solved through collaborative arrangements. Growing scholarly interest in collaboratives recognizes that the capacity for collective learning may play a critical role in their success. However, limited theoretical or empirical research exists to explain how learning occurs and the conditions that support learning in this context. In this article, we draw upon a wealth of literature, ranging from organization theory, policy process and change, and n...
