scholarly journals Conclusion

Author(s):  
Peter Leisink ◽  
Lotte B. Andersen ◽  
Christian B. Jacobsen ◽  
Eva Knies ◽  
Gene A. Brewer ◽  
...  

The concluding chapter synthesizes the insights and gives a comprehensive answer to the volume’s overall question. It sets directions for future research and discusses implications for public organizations’ practice. There is ample evidence that management contributes to performance, both directly and indirectly, through influencing employees’ (public service) motivation, organizational commitment, and job performance. There is also evidence that management contributes to employee outcomes, both positive, such as their job satisfaction and employability, and negative, such as stress and burnout. The chapter reflects critically on the state of public management research and outlines four key issues for future research: (1) work toward an integrated theoretical framework; (2) develop more comprehensive theoretical models; (3) pay attention to the public sector context; and (4) increase methodological rigor. The chapter contends that public management–performance research remains relevant in the era of inter-organizational networks and co-production, if and when studies pay explicit attention to the public sector context and to the frontline employees involved in service production. The chapter advises public organizations to invest in service provision policies that fit the organizational mission and create the conditions for their implementation by frontline managers who can help public employees create public value.

2021 ◽  
pp. 009539972110375
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Humphrey

Discussions of race have often been on the periphery emotional labor scholarship. This piece considers the link between race and emotional labor, arguing that racial bias in public organizations creates disparities in emotional labor among employees. To make this argument, this piece explores white normativity in public administration and the implications this has for people of color when managing their emotions at work. Following this discussion, the article identifies key themes from the literature, before providing a framework for future research on emotional labor and race.


Author(s):  
Oliver James ◽  
Ayako Nakamura ◽  
Nicolai Petrovsky

The heart of public management is that the public sector context matters in ways that generic management research typically neglects. Generic management scholarship has found that the degree of match between top managers’ career experience and the characteristics of their current organizations creates managerial fit or misfit. However, public sector management adds the insight of “publicness fit” and the empirical finding that managers appointed from outside of public organizations tend to have shorter tenures, and in some contexts, weaker performance than managers with experience managing inside public organizations. This chapter reviews the current state of research on managerial publicness fit. First, the publicness fit on dimensions of public ownership, funding, and regulation is presented and a systematic review of broader studies of managerial fit for their relevance to the topic is given. Then, review evidence on publicness “insider/outsider” fit and its consequences for the public sector is offered. The third section concludes with an agenda for integrating publicness fit with the other dimensions of managerial fit identified in the review.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgia Mattei ◽  
Giuseppe Grossi ◽  
James Guthrie A.M.

Purpose Public sector auditing research has changed rapidly over the past four decades. This paper aims to reveal how the field has developed and identify avenues for future research. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a structured literature review following Massaro et al. The sample comprises papers on public sector auditing published in accounting and public sector management journals between 1991 and 2020. Findings The present analysis highlights that academic research interest in public sector auditing has grown and become more diverse. The authors argue this may reflect a transformation of the public sector in recent decades, owing to the developing institutional logics of public sector reforms, from traditional public administration to new public management and now new public governance. Originality value This paper offers a comprehensive review of the public sector auditing literature, discussing different perspectives over time. It also outlines the various public sector reforms introduced over the period of the study. In reviewing the existing literature, the authors highlight the themes for future research and policy settings.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoxin Ma

Purpose This paper aims to bring to the fore some neglected implications of the dual employment systems in China, especially for the public sector. Design/methodology/approach This paper reinterprets some recent developments in understanding Chinese employments and incorporates the relevant research in arguing for a dualistic view of employment in China[1]. Findings In highlighting the unique dualistic employment contexts in China and an indigenous phenomenon of “unequal pay for equal work”, this paper finds public management studies in China to deserve a separate platform for future research. Research limitations/implications Future Chinese management studies on public sector should contextualise their findings and conclusions, taking into account the employment structure at their research settings. More studies on the public sector are needed to better understand the dualistic Chinese employment relationships, especially for better public management policies and practices in China. Social implications It calls for more scholarly attention on the social injustice embedded in the dualistic employment in China. Originality/value It extends the ongoing discussions of Chinese employment reform and its implications on organising work and employment in China, while unveils important implications of the dualistic employment for future Chinese management research, especially in the public sector.


Author(s):  
Paul Boselie ◽  
Carina Schott

This chapter makes three important contributions to the literature on the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and public-sector performance. First, the chapter presents a nuanced Harvard model that is developed by blending contemporary general HRM insights with public administration and public management literature. This refined model is more meaningful for the specific context of the public sector because it highlights multiple stakeholder interests, situational factors, and mediating factors (HRM policy choices and HRM outcomes), as well as long-term consequences from a public-sector context perspective. Second, the chapter presents an overview of studies on HRM and public-sector performance. This overview summarizes what is already known about the added value of HRM in a public-sector context. Third, on the basis of this literature review, the chapter identifies five important gaps in the literature, thereby providing a research agenda for future research.


Politik ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Christian Lindholst ◽  
Morten Balle Hansen

Privatization policies in the public sector can still, after 30 years on the public management reform agenda, cause outcries among Danes. ere is, however, a genuine lack of theoretically informed research that explores public opinion on privatizations. In this article we review the scarce international literature with the purpose of providing an informed theoretical foundation for future research on the public opinion on privatizations. We nd that the research eld is characterized by a limited number of studies, four research interests as mo- tivation as well as four explanatory factors as foundation for exploring the formation of public opinions. e research eld is furthermore biased toward certain forms of privatizations as well as certain policy sectors. We recommend that the research eld should be further developed by a future focus on under-explored forms of privatization and a greater attention to comparisons across di erent policy areas. 


2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicky Rogge ◽  
Tommaso Agasisti ◽  
Kristof De Witte

The increasing availability of statistical data raises opportunities for ‘big’ data and learning analytics. Here, we review the academic literature and research relating to the use of big data analytics in the public sector, and its contribution to public organizations’ performance and efficiency. We outline the advantages as well as the limitations of using big data in public sector organizations and identify research gaps in recent studies and interesting areas for future research.


2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio Anessi-Pessina ◽  
Carmela Barbera ◽  
Mariafrancesca Sicilia ◽  
Ileana Steccolini

Purpose – Budgeting is central in public organizations. From a research viewpoint, it is an extremely multifaceted and potentially rich field to investigate and develop. The changing institutional and socio-economic landscape, moreover, requires a profound reassessment of its roles and features in accounting studies. The purpose of this paper is to review the existing European literature on public budgeting, looking at how public administration, public management, and accounting contribute to current budgeting theories and practices and to advance a proposal on how they can individually and jointly contribute in the future. Design/methodology/approach – The authors collect and analyze all the papers on public budgeting in the European context that were published in all the issues of 15 major accounting and public-management journals since 1980. Findings – Budgeting has so far played a rather marginal role in European public management and accounting research. Among the existing papers, most focus on the Anglo-Saxon context, look at the intra-organizational aspects of budgeting, emphasize its managerial and allocative functions, either adopt an interpretive theoretical framework or make no explicit reference to theory, and rely on qualitative analyses. Public budgeting lies at the intersections between different disciplines and professions, but this multifacetedness has been largely neglected by the existing literature. These intersections thus offer significant opportunities for future research. Building on the distinction between the intra- and inter-organizational foci of budgeting, between its different functions (i.e. allocative, managerial, external accountability), and between the accounting and the public administration and management perspectives, the authors propose possible future research topics. Originality/value – Budgeting plays a central role in public organizations and is used to allocate a large share of national incomes. This paper explores the existing literature and puts forward some potentially fruitful avenues for future research.


2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Tummers ◽  
Yvonne Brunetto ◽  
Stephen T.T. Teo

Purpose – Public employees are often confronted with aggression from citizens, managers and colleagues. This is sometimes a function of having a monopoly position of many public organizations. As a result, citizens cannot opt for alternative providers when not served well. This could give rise to aggression. Furthermore, increased budget cuts might give rise to higher stress, workload and consequential aggression at times. This paper analyzes articles on workplace aggression, both the three articles of this special issue and more broadly. The purpose of this paper is to provide researchers with methodological and theoretical future research suggestions for new studies on workplace aggression. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review. Findings – By taking new methodological and theoretical routes, scholars can contribute to the analysis and potential solutions concerning workplace aggression in the public sector. First, the authors advise researchers to move beyond cross-sectional surveys. Instead, diary studies, longitudinal studies and experimental methods (such as randomized control trials) should be increasingly used. Furthermore, scholars can focus more on theory development and testing. Future studies are advised to connect workplace aggression to theoretical models (such as the Job Demands-Resources model), to theories (for instance social learning theory) and to public administration concepts (such as public service motivation and trust in citizens). Originality/value – This is one of the few articles within the public management literature which provides new methodological and theoretical directions for future research on workplace aggression.


1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Anabelle Castillo López

A nivel mundial, la crítica al sector público -que tiene mucho de verdad-, está alcanzando niveles de tal magnitud que ha llevado a los ciudadanos a una enorme pérdida de confianza en dicho sector, tanto así que han sido fácilmente convencidos de que los asuntos públicos deben y pueden resolverse fuera de la institucionalidad de dicho sector. Dichas críticas han conducido también a académicos a proponer cambios en la organización y funcionamiento del sector público. El presente trabajo parte del hecho de que toda esa crítica debe ser conducida a la luz de criterios objetivos, del conocimiento profundo sobre el funcionamiento propio de este sector y tomando en cuenta las características que lo distinguen del sector privado. Se parte aquí de la premisa de que el sector público tiene una serie de complejidades que lo hacen diferente al sector privado y que no se pueden resolver fácilmente, puesto que la cobertura de su funcionamiento requiere llegar a todos los ciudadanos de un país con productos y servicios de alta dificultad, lo que lo obliga a diseñar y poner en funcionamiento sistemas administrativos muy complejos para la prestación de los servicios; siendo ello diferente al sector privado, que tiene mercados cautivos, para productos muy bien delimitados. Desde esta perspectiva, tampoco es suficiente con trasladar la producción de bienes y servicios al sector privado, puesto que estaríamos trasladando todas esas complejidades a ese sector, con lo cual caeríamos en la misma situación, solo que en un sector diferente. Por tal razón, este análisis trata de aportar sobre cuáles son esas características propias del sector público que debemos tomar en cuenta a la hora de evaluarlo y sobre cuáles son parámetros que sí podríamos utilizar para llevar a cabo una evaluación objetiva de las actuaciones del sector público. ABSTRACTPublic sector mal-functioning has long been criticized and, as a result, great disappointment and a loss of confidence have grown among citizens who are now convinced that public activities should be transferred into the private sector. Because of that, academics all over have dedicated time to study this phenomenon and suggested new academic approaches, many of which are oriented to the adoption of alternative methods to manage public organizations as private enterprises or to definitively transfer public activities to private sectors. Therefore, this work tries to point out that, in order to give appropriate judgments or assessments about the public sector, it is necessary to clarify certain complexities that characterize it. These clarifications are important because misjudgments are usually expressed by different evaluators –journalists, auditors, etc. – through the media. That ends up in misunderstandings and a lack of support to public affairs. Clarifications are also necessary not only because people deserve unbiased assessments of the public sector, but also because, probably for them, it is not easy to recognize what is good and what is wrong with the public sector. Moreover, this work shows that there are no easy ways to go around many public affairs because, even though some activities can be transferred to the private sector, not all of them can, and, at the end, due to specific complexities, we will be simply transferring those complexities from one sector to another keeping the problems intact.  It is recognizable that, in the public sector, things can be improved, but expectations over performance should be in accordance with reality. Finally, this study shows some parameters to positively measure public activities in order to monitor and contribute to better governance. KEYWORDS:  PUBLIC MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR, EVALUATION, PUBLIC OPINION, EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS.


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