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作者:Andersen, Simon Calmar; Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位:Aarhus University; Aarhus University; Georgetown University
摘要:New hires offer a mixed blessing. They can spur teams to reflect on their processes in ways that encourage learning. But organizational newcomers may also struggle to achieve inclusion. This article examines how newcomers' experiences in public organizations depend on their social distinctiveness. While diversity is usually framed in terms of biodemographic factors such as race and gender, educational background is another form of social distinction. Educational differences may trigger psychol...
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作者:Walker, Richard M.; Lee, M. Jin; James, Oliver; Ho, Samuel M. Y.
作者单位:City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong; University of Exeter; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong
摘要:This article addresses important questions about the complex construct of underlying performance information use: public service performance. A between-subjects experimental vignette methodology was implemented to answer questions about the effects of emphasizing different dimensions of performance and the sources and types of performance information among internal and external stakeholders in two service arenas (secondary education and solid waste management) in Hong Kong. The findings indica...
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作者:Wachs, Martin
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作者:Resh, William G.; Marvel, John D.; Wen, Bo
作者单位:University of Southern California; George Mason University; University of Southern California
摘要:The authors use an online experiment to test the proposal that mission match leads to persistent prosocial work effort, whereby employees go above and beyond remunerated job responsibilities to deliver a public good. First, the importance of mission match to persistent prosocial work effort in public and nonprofit organizations is discussed. Then a real-effort experiment is used to test whether mission match is associated with the persistence of individual work effort under conditions of unrea...
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作者:Agarwal, P. K.
摘要:Technology-driven disruption is taking place at a pace and scale not witnessed before in history. Waves of technology, such as the internet of things, big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, are reshaping our personal and professional lives in profound ways. A new world is emerging in which many of the current job classes will disappear, while new ones, requiring entirely different sets of skills, are emerging. Public administrators are unprepared for the challenges they must ...
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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:Porcher, Simon
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作者:Bollens, Scott A.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Irvine
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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...