Servant Leadership in the Public Sector: Employee Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-646
Author(s):  
Neale J. Slack ◽  
Gurmeet Singh ◽  
Jashwini Narayan ◽  
Shavneet Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Employee Perspective ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employee ◽  
Sector Employee

The Impacts of Private Experience on the Employment of Different Public Job Positions

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Public Budgeting ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employee ◽  
Sector Employee ◽  
Managerial Position

There have been many studies on the differences between the public and private sectors; yet, these studies often do not address differences within the public sector. This article investigates the impacts of the private sector experience on the employment of different categories of public employees: public budgeting and finance (PBF) employees, professionals, and managers. It also compares the different impacts among mixed categories of PBF professionals, non-PBF professionals, PBF managers, and non-PBF managers. The results suggest that the private sector experience increases the likelihood of a public sector employee being in a PBF or professional position, while it decreases the propensity of a public sector employee to be in a managerial position. Moreover, while private sector experience negatively correlates with public employees’ job satisfaction, the results are not significant for PBF employees and professionals, and the negative effects are much higher for non-PBF employees and nonprofessionals.

The twilight zone: paradoxes of practicing reform

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bagga Bjerge ◽  
Toke Bjerregaard
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Twilight Zone ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
Public Sector Employee ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Sector Employee ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Drug And Alcohol

Purpose In many public sector reform processes, employees’ roles as professional experts are shifting toward more entrepreneurial and market-oriented roles, a change that entails a shift in the demands made of these employees. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reflections, considerations, and experiences of such employees regarding the spaces of possibility open to them in which to act in accordance with this new role. Design/methodology/approach Two ethnographic studies were carried out in drug and alcohol treatment services and in city and business development in the Danish welfare system. Findings Although the areas of investigation are not related in their daily practices, the authors trace similar responses to the demands made of their respective employees as their role shifts from that of professional experts to include more entrepreneurial aspects. The authors observe that employees are often eager to align new demands and practices, and the authors identify various challenges in respect of the structural public set-up of these services, which often leaves the employees to operate in what could be described as a “twilight zone” between the public and the private. Originality/value While scholars often have accounted for situations where such pluralistic roles create conflict, the authors also answer calls to capture moments of synergy where tensions of role paradox are constructively exploited. In this process of ongoing production, images of hierarchy and bureaucracy, rather than merely casting shadows over more bottom-up process of entrepreneurship, are actively used, alongside images of entrepreneurship, in the mutual construction of different roles and the constantly shifting relationality between them, conflicting or synergetic. The definitions and interpretations of the role of the public sector employee are not entirely fixed, but rather subject to ongoing (re)construction in the daily workings of public organizations.

scholarly journals The Legitimacy of the Public-Sector Employee’s Strike in the Jordanian Legislation: A Study Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Taha Atiyyat
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Public Official ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employee ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Sector Employee ◽  
Study Case ◽  
The Right

The national and international have endorsed the act of striking as a basic common right that is carte blanche but confined to local laws and regulations. The issue, however, has been an area of controversy; a number of countries have been diverse in their stance in terms of banning such an act or legalize I. Jordan is one of the countries which ban the public-sector employee to strike in order to ensure the public facilities and services necessary fir the citizen’s daily-life activities and needs, noting that this ban in exempted from the private-sector employees in accordance to the labour law. So many legislators have highlighted the right and obligations of the pubic-sector employee, focusing the attention on his right in striking to a great extent that might expose his right to be confined in case of a conflict with the principle of public utility. Over history, many countries have been legitimizing the right of striking for the public-sector employees because of several reasons. First, conducting a strike might be harmful for the stream of public utitlity. In addition, this act represents in a way one of the vital features of the state’s sovereignty. Despite the fact that many countries have joined the international conventions that ensure the public-sector employee, known as public official, in striking, the Jordanian legislator has not exercised this right on real grounds in the space of the employee’s profession, but he has been satisfied with the words that ban employees to strike as documented in the Civil Service Regulations. The legislator considers striking as any illegal conduct resulting in dangerous consequences and disruption in the public utility regularly and steadily. This study will tackle the legitimacy of the public-sector employees in the Jordanian law. The attention will be focused on the Jordanian teachers;’ strike as a study case with reference to the Jordanian Constitution, including the relevant bylaws and regulations, the provisions of Jordanian courts like the Constitutional Court of Jordan and the Supreme Administrative Court of Jordan.

scholarly journals Role of Public Service Motivation, Organization Values and Reward Expectation on Performance of Public Sector Employees in Henan, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Yu-Jie Xu ◽  
Syarifah Mastura B. Syed Abu Bakar ◽  
Waqas Ali
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employee ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Sector Employee

The main objective of this study is to investigate the role of public service motivation, organization value and reward on performance of public sector employee in the Henan, China. Data is collected from adopted instrument from earlier studies. The researcher has collected data from 396 respondents by using online survey and self-administrative collection method. For analysis of data, SPSS and SmartPLS software were used. It has been concluded that role of organization values does not have a relationship with the performance of employees. The public service motivation and reward expectation plays an important role in employee job performance. The researcher found that earlier researchers’ assumption, the non-monetary benefits in public sector job least important are not valid in context of China Public sector employees. This research concludes that the employees who are working in public sector always look for both monetary and non-monetary benefits.

Who becomes a public sector employee?

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terhi Maczulskij
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
Public Sector Employee ◽  
Sector Employee

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which individual characteristics are related to the decision to become a public sector employee using twin study data matched with register-based, individual-level panel data for the 1991-2009 period. Design/methodology/approach The probability of public sector entry is examined using fixed effects logit regression to control for shared environmental and genetic factors. Findings The results show that unobserved factors partially explain the well-documented relationships between many individual characteristics and public sector employment choice. However, the results also show that highly educated and more extraverted individuals are more likely to enter public sector employment, even when both shared environmental and genetic factors are controlled for. Workers also tend to exit the private sector to enter the public sector at lower wage levels. Originality/value The twin design used in this paper represents a contribution to the existing literature. This paper is also the first to examine the probability of entry into the public sector instead of comparing public sector workers with private sector workers.

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