Monetary Incentives, Motivation, and Job Effort in the Public Sector: An...
What effects do financial incentives have on the effort made by public managers? How do different types of work motivation (i.e., intrinsic, extrinsic, and public service motivation) moderate this...
View ArticlePublic Agency Hiring, Minimum Qualifications, and Experience
Public administrators engage all aspects of a community and need to be skillful in working with elected officials, citizens, business groups, and government employees who make things happen. Minimum...
View ArticleTransformational Leadership, Goal Setting, and Work Motivation: The Case of a...
Many studies have recently been devoted to transformational leadership in public sector organizations. However, these seldom address the relationship between transformational leadership and work...
View ArticleStatus Update: Social Media and Local Government Human Resource Practices
Social media use has quickly become an integral part of people’s personal and professional lives. Although many scholars highlight the benefits of social media for engagement, communication, and...
View ArticleDiversity Management in Public Organizations and Its Effect on Employees'...
The purpose of this article is to explore the link between diversity management in public organizations and employees’ affective commitment by testing hypotheses on the mediating roles of...
View ArticleAssessing Survey-Based Measurement of Personnel Red Tape With Anchoring...
Despite an upsurge of red tape research, a central issue remains unresolved. The most widely used red tape measures draw on key informant reports about red tape. The starkest objection to such...
View ArticleThe Impact of Coproductive Taxpayers' Supervisory Behaviors on the Job...
Citizen coproduction of public services can be a powerful force that influences employee work motivation. However, little research has been conducted to explore what kind of coproductive behaviors can...
View ArticleThe Cross-Domain Effects of Work and Family Role Stressors on Public...
Understanding work and family role transition activities is very important as without knowing the mechanism, policymakers cannot design effective family-friendly programs. This research addressed two...
View ArticleHow Emotional Intelligence Mediates Emotional Labor in Public Service Jobs
Most public service jobs involve emotionally intense work demands. For this reason, the terms emotional intelligence and emotional labor have entered the lexicon of public service. The former refers to...
View ArticlePublic Service, Public Corruption and the First Amendment: The Implications...
The 2006 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos imposed significant new restrictions on the First Amendment freedom of speech rights of public employees. Specifically, the Garcetti...
View ArticleCritical Issues in the Transition From the Defined Benefit to the Defined...
The dramatically increased costs of maintaining many public pension systems after the recent economic downturn have spurred a number of state and local governments to reassess the sustainability of...
View ArticleToward Representative Bureaucracy: Predicting Public Service Attraction Among...
To deliver truly representative and effective democratic governance, a public service (PS) should employ individuals from diverse backgrounds throughout its workforce. In the Canadian government,...
View ArticleRed Tape, Resigned Satisfaction, Public Service Motivation, and Negative...
We examine the effect of red tape on resigned satisfaction, Public Service Motivation (PSM), and negative employee attitudes and behaviors. Based on responses of 217 public servants, this study...
View ArticleThe Use of Written Exams in Police and Fire Departments: Implications for...
This exploratory analysis seeks to determine the extent to which written exams are required by law for police and firefighters across the United States and whether, in fact, they are being used. The...
View ArticleThe Role of Employee Task Performance and Learning Effort in Determining...
Touting its potential benefits, employee participation or empowerment has served as an underlying theme in many recent public sector management reforms. However, few studies have investigated the...
View ArticleThe Psychological Mechanisms of Public Service Motivation: A Two-Wave...
To explore the psychological mechanism of public service motivation (PSM), we used a time-lagged design to examine the mediating effects of organizational identification on the relationship between...
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