Hal G Rainey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 698176 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hal G Rainey |
| NOMBRES | Hal G |
| APELLIDO | Rainey |
| FIRMA | RAINEY H G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Georgia |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1352 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
International Comparison of Public and Private Employees’ Work Motives, Attitudes, and Perceived Rewards
This article presents a conceptual perspective on the distinctive characteristics of public organizations and their personnel. This perspective leads to hypotheses that public organizations deliver distinctive goods and services that influence the motives and rewards for their employees. These hypotheses are tested with evidence from the International Social Survey Programme in order to compare public and private employees in 30 nations. Public e…
A Conceptual Framework for Analysis of Goal Ambiguity in Public Organizations
Response to Kasdan’s “Great Books”
Organizations, Politics, and Public Purposes
The title of this lecture refers to organizations, politics, and public purposes to emphasize developments in the analysis of public organizations and their management and the need for that analysis to include politics as an influence on those organizations. The Gaus Award recognizes contributions in the joint tradition of public administration and political science. Organizations serve as essential components of the administrative branch of gove…
Sampling Designs for Analyzing Publicness
Research comparing public and private organizations and otherwise analyzing "publicness" involves complex challenges. These include the challenge of designing and attaining adequate samples to represent the two complex categories of "public" and "private," as well as dimensions of publicness, and subcategories and control variables needed for valid comparisons. This review of sampling alternatives begins with discussion of the strengths and weakn…
Personnel Flexibility and Red Tape in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Academics and journalists have depicted government bureaucracies as particularly subject to administrative constraints, including the infamous red tape and personnel rules that sharply constrain pay, promotion, and dismissal and weaken their relations to performance. Research on these topics has often focused on public organizations alone or on comparisons of public and private organizations. The analysis reported here extends this research to in…
Goal Ambiguity, Work Complexity, and Work Routineness in Federal Agencies
Prominent scholars have observed that public organizations and policies tend to have ambiguous goals, but research on these assertions is scarce. This analysis adds to a recent set of studies that developed measures of organizational goal ambiguity and found that federal agencies vary on these measures due to differences in funding patterns and other variables. This study adds variables representing the nature of the agencies’ work—the routinenes…
Of Politics and Purpose
As scholars have observed, government agencies have ambiguous goals. Very few large sample empirical studies, however, have tested such assertions and analysed variations among organizations in the characteristics of their goals. Researchers have developed concepts of organizational goal ambiguity, including ‘evaluative goal ambiguity’, and ‘priority goal ambiguity’, and found that these goal ambiguity variables related meaningfully to financial …
Managing Diversity in U.S. Federal Agencies
Diversity in the workplace is a central issue for contemporary organizational management. Concomitantly, managing increased diversity deserves greater concern in public, private, and nonprofit organizations. The authors address the effects of diversity and diversity management on employee perceptions of organizational performance in U.S. federal agencies by developing measures of three variables: diversity, diversity management, and perceived org…
Leadership and Public Service Motivation in U.S. Federal Agencies
This analysis of over 6,900 federal employees’ responses to the Merit Principles Survey 2000 examines the influences of leadership and motivational variables, and especially public service motivation, on the “outcome” variables job satisfaction, perceived performance, quality of work, and turnover intentions. CFA confirms a factor structure for transformation-oriented leadership (TOL), public service-oriented motivation (PSOM), transaction-orient…
Reply to Mikesell and Birskyte, and to Cyr and Swanson
Leadership and the Transformation of a Major Institution
Charles Rossotti took the helm at the Internal Revenue Service in 1997 amid complaints of abuse of both IRS workers and taxpayers. Did he succeed at improving the agency's image without sacrificing its principal mission to enforce the tax code fairly and effectively? This retrospective on Rossotti's five-year tenure suggests that he, his leadership team, and teams of IRS employees managed effective changes that substantially improved services to …
Managing Successful Organizational Change in the Public Sector
Goal Ambiguity and Organizational Performance in U.S. Federal Agencies
In spite of numerous observations that government organizations have high levels of organizational goal ambiguity that exert major influences on their other characteristics, few researchers have measured goal ambiguity and tested these frequent assertions. In previous research, we developed measures of four dimensions of goal ambiguity: mission comprehension ambiguity, directive goal ambiguity, evaluative goal ambiguity, and priority goal ambigui…
What Motivates Bureaucrats
Marisa Martino Golden has written an insightful study of the compliance of career civil servants with the priorities of their politically-appointed superiors during the Reagan administration.She conducted seventy interviews at four federal agencies that the Reaganites had targeted to have their authority and activities curtailed.The agencies have regulatory or social welfare missions, which Reagan and his appointees sought to cut back in their dr…
A Reflection on Herbert Simon
Comparing Public and Private Organizations
Research comparing public and private organizations and examining the publicness of organizations represents a substantial and growing body of empirical evidence, relevant to many international issues in political economy and organization theory such as the privatization of public services. This article assesses several major streams in this research over the last two decades, which in some ways refute widely held a priori assumptions about simil…
Galloping Elephants
Much of the theory and discourse on public bureaucracies treats them negatively, as if they incline inevitably toward weak performance. This orientation prevails in spite of considerable evidence that many government organizations perform very well, and in spite of many examples of their excellent performance. This article draws on the literature and research on effective government organizations to select and develop conceptual elements of a the…
"Organizational Rules and the "Bureaucratic Personality
Theory: Theories of the bureaucratic personality by Victor Thompson and Robert Merton hold that personal characteristics of certain bureaucrats make them prefer elaborate rules and regulations, so this study tests such a model. Yet some organizations really do need more rules, so the study also tests a bureaucratic organization model that predicts that characteristics of the organization determine members' preferences for rules. Prominent theorie…
Research Note
Red tape is an important topic in administration. For example, the title of the Report of the National Performance Review (NPA), From Red Tape to Results, emphasizes the objective of reducing red tape in government (Gore, 1993). In spite of its prominence, however, scholarly analyses of red tape have been relatively rare. Administrative analysts have conducted much research pertinent to the topic, but often employ a concept other than red tape. I…
On Paradigms, Progress, and Prospects for Public Management
Journal Article On Paradigms, Progress, and Prospects for Public Management Get access Hal G. Rainey Hal G. Rainey The University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 1994, Pages 41–48, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a037192 Published: 01 January 1994
Leadership Theory and Development
Leadership Theory and Development: Lessons from Recent Organizational Behavior Literature Get access Jay A. Conger, Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers into Leaders. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992. 234 pp. James G. HuntLeadership: A New Synthesis. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1991. 358 pp. Henry P. Sims, and Peter Lorenzi , The New Leadership Paradigm: Social Learning and Cognition in Organizations. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 199…
Putting the Public Back in Public Management
Refounding Public Administration
Power and Service
Galloping Elephants
Much of the theory and discourse on public bureaucracies treats them negatively, as if they incline inevitably toward weak performance. This orientation prevails in spite of considerable evidence that many government organizations perform very well, and in spite of many examples of their excellent performance. This article draws on the literature and research on effective government organizations to select and develop conceptual elements of a the…
Comparing Public and Private Organizations
Research comparing public and private organizations and examining the publicness of organizations represents a substantial and growing body of empirical evidence, relevant to many international issues in political economy and organization theory such as the privatization of public services. This article assesses several major streams in this research over the last two decades, which in some ways refute widely held a priori assumptions about simil…
Goal Ambiguity and Organizational Performance in U.S. Federal Agencies
In spite of numerous observations that government organizations have high levels of organizational goal ambiguity that exert major influences on their other characteristics, few researchers have measured goal ambiguity and tested these frequent assertions. In previous research, we developed measures of four dimensions of goal ambiguity: mission comprehension ambiguity, directive goal ambiguity, evaluative goal ambiguity, and priority goal ambigui…
Research Note
Red tape is an important topic in administration. For example, the title of the Report of the National Performance Review (NPA), From Red Tape to Results, emphasizes the objective of reducing red tape in government (Gore, 1993). In spite of its prominence, however, scholarly analyses of red tape have been relatively rare. Administrative analysts have conducted much research pertinent to the topic, but often employ a concept other than red tape. I…
Reward Preferences among Public and Private Managers
Goals, Rules, and Effectiveness in Public, Private, and Hybrid Organizations
This study reports findings from a survey of managers in public, private, and hybrid organizations. The results augment the evidence about some of .the most frequent assertions about differences among those types of organizations. Public managers perceive more emphasis on rules, channels, and procedures, and more constraints on authority. Contrary to numerous assertions in the literature, however, the public managers perceive greater clarity of o…
Public Agencies and Private Firms
There is an increasing interest in applying organization theory to public organizations as such, and a need for clarifying the distinction between public and private organizations. This quantitative case study compares questionnaire responses by middle managers in nonprofit public agencies and private profit-making corporations, to test hypotheses concerning differences in incentive structures, organizational goal clarity, and individual role cha…
"Organizational Rules and the "Bureaucratic Personality
Theory: Theories of the bureaucratic personality by Victor Thompson and Robert Merton hold that personal characteristics of certain bureaucrats make them prefer elaborate rules and regulations, so this study tests such a model. Yet some organizations really do need more rules, so the study also tests a bureaucratic organization model that predicts that characteristics of the organization determine members' preferences for rules. Prominent theorie…
Personnel Flexibility and Red Tape in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Academics and journalists have depicted government bureaucracies as particularly subject to administrative constraints, including the infamous red tape and personnel rules that sharply constrain pay, promotion, and dismissal and weaken their relations to performance. Research on these topics has often focused on public organizations alone or on comparisons of public and private organizations. The analysis reported here extends this research to in…
A Conceptual Framework for Analysis of Goal Ambiguity in Public Organizations
Of Politics and Purpose
As scholars have observed, government agencies have ambiguous goals. Very few large sample empirical studies, however, have tested such assertions and analysed variations among organizations in the characteristics of their goals. Researchers have developed concepts of organizational goal ambiguity, including ‘evaluative goal ambiguity’, and ‘priority goal ambiguity’, and found that these goal ambiguity variables related meaningfully to financial …
Disadvantage, Disaffection, and Race as Divergent Bases for Citizen Fiscal Policy Preferences
Recent years have seen increased attention to citizen preferences for taxation and spending for public services. Yet, the sources of these attitudes, and of apparent inconsistencies among them, remain something of a mystery. This study integrates divergent disciplinary perspectives on citizen fiscal policy attitudes to develop a more comprehensive theoretical framework for explaining them. It tests the framework through a LISREL analysis of surve…
Don't Blame the Bureaucracy
Public agencies and public employees are increasingly berated as inept and inefficient. We argue that the public bureaucracy in the United States is more valuable and effective than generally recognized. Where public agencies do perform badly, the problem is often due to external factors. We discuss the oversimplified calls for more businesslike efficiency in government, the value complexity which complicates evaluation of the public bureaucracy,…
What Motivates Bureaucrats
Marisa Martino Golden has written an insightful study of the compliance of career civil servants with the priorities of their politically-appointed superiors during the Reagan administration.She conducted seventy interviews at four federal agencies that the Reaganites had targeted to have their authority and activities curtailed.The agencies have regulatory or social welfare missions, which Reagan and his appointees sought to cut back in their dr…
Goal Ambiguity, Work Complexity, and Work Routineness in Federal Agencies
Prominent scholars have observed that public organizations and policies tend to have ambiguous goals, but research on these assertions is scarce. This analysis adds to a recent set of studies that developed measures of organizational goal ambiguity and found that federal agencies vary on these measures due to differences in funding patterns and other variables. This study adds variables representing the nature of the agencies’ work—the routinenes…
Sampling Designs for Analyzing Publicness
Research comparing public and private organizations and otherwise analyzing "publicness" involves complex challenges. These include the challenge of designing and attaining adequate samples to represent the two complex categories of "public" and "private," as well as dimensions of publicness, and subcategories and control variables needed for valid comparisons. This review of sampling alternatives begins with discussion of the strengths and weakn…
Refounding Public Administration
Organization Theory and Political Science
Public Organization Theory
Response to Kasdan’s “Great Books”
Organizations, Politics, and Public Purposes
The title of this lecture refers to organizations, politics, and public purposes to emphasize developments in the analysis of public organizations and their management and the need for that analysis to include politics as an influence on those organizations. The Gaus Award recognizes contributions in the joint tradition of public administration and political science. Organizations serve as essential components of the administrative branch of gove…
A Reflection on Herbert Simon
Professionals in Public Organizations
Interpersonal physical pleasuring
In this initial investigation of interpersonal pleasuring, denned as the administration of positive physical stimulation to one human by another, 439 undergraduates used the Brock Pleasure Machine to give 30 intensity-graded waves of pleasure to a confederate recipient's buttocks. The findings of Experiment 1 were that pleasuring increased across trials and more pleasuring was given to an oppositethan to a same-sex partner. Experiment 2 replicate…
Interpersonal physical pleasuring
In this initial investigation of interpersonal pleasuring, denned as the administration of positive physical stimulation to one human by another, 439 undergraduates used the Brock Pleasure Machine to give 30 intensity-graded waves of pleasure to a confederate recipient's buttocks. The findings of Experiment 1 were that pleasuring increased across trials and more pleasuring was given to an oppositethan to a same-sex partner. Experiment 2 replicate…
Comparing Public and Private Organizations
This article presents a number of propositions about differences in public and private organizations, which have implications for their management.1 The propositions extend and refine consideration of the question which was recently addressed by Michael A. Murray in this Review (36). Murray suggests that public and private organizations are converging and facing similar constraints and challenges, and that management in all types of organizations…
Perceptions of Incentives in Business and Government
7 he deleterious impact of civil service systems on incentives in government organizations is frequently asserted, yet very little systematic research on this problem is available in the public administration literature.' This is surprising, since correction of this alleged harmful impact of merit systems on motivation and the administration of incentives is usually one of the major objectives of civil service reform efforts at various levels of …
Professionals in Public Organizations
Reward Preferences among Public and Private Managers
Public Agencies and Private Firms
There is an increasing interest in applying organization theory to public organizations as such, and a need for clarifying the distinction between public and private organizations. This quantitative case study compares questionnaire responses by middle managers in nonprofit public agencies and private profit-making corporations, to test hypotheses concerning differences in incentive structures, organizational goal clarity, and individual role cha…
Public Organization Theory
Don't Blame the Bureaucracy
Public agencies and public employees are increasingly berated as inept and inefficient. We argue that the public bureaucracy in the United States is more valuable and effective than generally recognized. Where public agencies do perform badly, the problem is often due to external factors. We discuss the oversimplified calls for more businesslike efficiency in government, the value complexity which complicates evaluation of the public bureaucracy,…
Organization Theory and Political Science
The Public-Private Distinction in Organization Theory
Disadvantage, Disaffection, and Race as Divergent Bases for Citizen Fiscal Policy Preferences
Recent years have seen increased attention to citizen preferences for taxation and spending for public services. Yet, the sources of these attitudes, and of apparent inconsistencies among them, remain something of a mystery. This study integrates divergent disciplinary perspectives on citizen fiscal policy attitudes to develop a more comprehensive theoretical framework for explaining them. It tests the framework through a LISREL analysis of surve…
Management in a Strange World
Refounding Public Administration
Power and Service
Books in review
Goals, Rules, and Effectiveness in Public, Private, and Hybrid Organizations
This study reports findings from a survey of managers in public, private, and hybrid organizations. The results augment the evidence about some of .the most frequent assertions about differences among those types of organizations. Public managers perceive more emphasis on rules, channels, and procedures, and more constraints on authority. Contrary to numerous assertions in the literature, however, the public managers perceive greater clarity of o…
Putting the Public Back in Public Management
On Paradigms, Progress, and Prospects for Public Management
Journal Article On Paradigms, Progress, and Prospects for Public Management Get access Hal G. Rainey Hal G. Rainey The University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 1994, Pages 41–48, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a037192 Published: 01 January 1994
Leadership Theory and Development
Leadership Theory and Development: Lessons from Recent Organizational Behavior Literature Get access Jay A. Conger, Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers into Leaders. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992. 234 pp. James G. HuntLeadership: A New Synthesis. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1991. 358 pp. Henry P. Sims, and Peter Lorenzi , The New Leadership Paradigm: Social Learning and Cognition in Organizations. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 199…
Research Note
Red tape is an important topic in administration. For example, the title of the Report of the National Performance Review (NPA), From Red Tape to Results, emphasizes the objective of reducing red tape in government (Gore, 1993). In spite of its prominence, however, scholarly analyses of red tape have been relatively rare. Administrative analysts have conducted much research pertinent to the topic, but often employ a concept other than red tape. I…
"Organizational Rules and the "Bureaucratic Personality
Theory: Theories of the bureaucratic personality by Victor Thompson and Robert Merton hold that personal characteristics of certain bureaucrats make them prefer elaborate rules and regulations, so this study tests such a model. Yet some organizations really do need more rules, so the study also tests a bureaucratic organization model that predicts that characteristics of the organization determine members' preferences for rules. Prominent theorie…
Galloping Elephants
Much of the theory and discourse on public bureaucracies treats them negatively, as if they incline inevitably toward weak performance. This orientation prevails in spite of considerable evidence that many government organizations perform very well, and in spite of many examples of their excellent performance. This article draws on the literature and research on effective government organizations to select and develop conceptual elements of a the…
Comparing Public and Private Organizations
Research comparing public and private organizations and examining the publicness of organizations represents a substantial and growing body of empirical evidence, relevant to many international issues in political economy and organization theory such as the privatization of public services. This article assesses several major streams in this research over the last two decades, which in some ways refute widely held a priori assumptions about simil…
A Reflection on Herbert Simon
What Motivates Bureaucrats
Marisa Martino Golden has written an insightful study of the compliance of career civil servants with the priorities of their politically-appointed superiors during the Reagan administration.She conducted seventy interviews at four federal agencies that the Reaganites had targeted to have their authority and activities curtailed.The agencies have regulatory or social welfare missions, which Reagan and his appointees sought to cut back in their dr…
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