Public Personnel Management
- Publisher:
- Sage Publications, Inc.
- Publication date:
- 2021-09-06
- ISBN:
- 0091-0260
Issue Number
- No. 52-1, March 2023
- No. 51-4, December 2022
- No. 51-3, September 2022
- No. 51-2, June 2022
- No. 51-1, March 2022
- No. 50-4, December 2021
- No. 50-3, September 2021
- No. 50-2, June 2021
- No. 50-1, March 2021
- No. 49-4, December 2020
- No. 49-3, September 2020
- No. 49-2, June 2020
- No. 49-1, March 2020
- No. 48-4, December 2019
- No. 48-3, September 2019
- No. 48-2, June 2019
- No. 48-1, March 2019
- No. 47-4, December 2018
- No. 47-3, September 2018
- No. 47-2, June 2018
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- Participation, Engagement, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Among Public Employees
Despite considerable research on the importance of a management practice emphasizing the relational aspect such as participative management, little is known regarding the mechanism through which this relation-oriented management practice motivates public employees to cultivate pro-organizational work behavior such as organizational citizenship behavior. Using data from public employees in South Korea, this study examines the association between participative management and organizational citizenship behavior. We also explore how participative management sparks public employees to be engaged in their job, which in turn leads to higher organizational citizenship behavior. By identifying employee engagement as a mediating mechanism that links participative management and organizational citizenship behavior, this study offers insights into the role of relational management practices in public settings.
- Perceived Changes in Leadership Behavior during Formal Leadership Education
The aim of this study is to research how leaders’ subordinates, peers, and superiors perceive changes in leadership behavior (measured as task, relation, and change orientations) when leaders in their organization participate in formal leadership education. This question is addressed in a longitudinal 3-year study. This article uses data from a panel of respondents (n = 860–897) from four Danish municipalities. Descriptive statistics and leader fixed effects indicate that formal leadership education has a substantial short-term perceived impact on leadership behavior. The most robust finding in the study are the statistically significant correlations between the perception of leadership behavior and the perceiver’s hierarchical position. The study shows significant differences between subordinates, peers, and superiors in their perceptions of the development of leadership behavior over time. Subordinates rate change in leadership behavior as significantly lower than do peers and superiors.
- Are Millennials Different? A Time-Lag Study of Federal Millennial and Generation X Employees’ Affective Commitment
- Does Language Matter? Perceptions of the Use of Diversity Training in the Public Sector Workforce
This study examines how the public perceives the use of diversity training in public service organizations through the lens of neutral and charged language in a politicized context. This study explores whether framing affects levels of agreement regarding the use of diversity training. Data were collected from a sample of more than 700 undergraduate political science students, and findings indicate that individuals, overall, demonstrate more agreement with the use of diversity training when framed through the lens of neutral language rather than charged language. The data also show that factors such as political ideology, gender, and race are predictors of agreement.
- Marketization and Public Service Motivation: Cross-Country Evidence of a Deleterious Effect
The introduction of market-based competition into the public service delivery process may incentivize desirable bureaucratic behaviors but may also have unintended effects. Using a sample of public servants from 48 countries and cross-country estimates of public service marketization, this study provides evidence of a competition-based erosion of public service motivation (PSM). Second, using three different estimates of external market competitiveness, the analysis shows that the negative effect of marketization on PSM strengthens as external competitiveness intensifies. This study extends the motivational crowding literature by linking the hypothesis to contextual factors and testing the theory in a cross-national setting.
- Marketization and Public Service Motivation: Cross-Country Evidence of a Deleterious Effect
The introduction of market-based competition into the public service delivery process may incentivize desirable bureaucratic behaviors but may also have unintended effects. Using a sample of public servants from 48 countries and cross-country estimates of public service marketization, this study provides evidence of a competition-based erosion of public service motivation (PSM). Second, using three different estimates of external market competitiveness, the analysis shows that the negative effect of marketization on PSM strengthens as external competitiveness intensifies. This study extends the motivational crowding literature by linking the hypothesis to contextual factors and testing the theory in a cross-national setting.
- Racial/Ethnic Differences in Employee Perceived Organizational Performance, Job Satisfaction, and Diversity Management Among the U.S. Federal Public Health Agencies
- Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right: Understanding Retaliation for Filing Discrimination Complaints in the U.S. Federal Government
- Racial/Ethnic Differences in Employee Perceived Organizational Performance, Job Satisfaction, and Diversity Management Among the U.S. Federal Public Health Agencies
- Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right: Understanding Retaliation for Filing Discrimination Complaints in the U.S. Federal Government
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- The Mechanism of Gender Difference and Representation Role in Negotiation
This paper examined the effects of gender difference and the representation role on negotiation under Face-to-Face (FTF) and Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) conditions. Laboratory experiments with a 2(sex of seller) × 2(self- vs. other- representation for seller) × 2(FTF vs. CMC) factorial...
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This article adopts a qualitative approach to investigate public service motivation (PSM) among the government employees in Hong Kong. The government employees are not a homogeneous whole but a nuanced combination of rational self-interested motives, and PSM may help to explain the entry reason as...