Dorothy Olshfski

Biographic Data

ID1064170
NAMEDorothy Olshfski
GIVEN NAMESDorothy
FAMILY NAMEOlshfski
SIGNATUREOLSHFSKI D
AFFILIATIONSRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX3

  • Friends at Work: A Comparative Study of Work Attitudes in Seoul City Government and New Jersey State Government

    Open AccessSeok-Hwi Song, Dorothy OlshfskiARTICLEAdministration & Society2008Cited by: 5References: 45

    Managers and scholars have always been ambivalent about the value of friendships among employees to the organization, although anyone who has worked in an office setting knows that working in a friendly place is much more preferable than the alternative. The major focus on office friendship has been on the negative side: Friendship can be related to nepotism; favoritism; gossip; displacement of loyalty; and negative, time-consuming organizational…

  • War Narratives: Framing Our Understanding of the War on Terror

    Open AccessKathe Callahan, Melvin J Dubnick et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review2006References: 82

    Unlike past American wars, the current war on terror has not been associated with a centrally proffered narrative providing some guidance and orientation for those administering government services under state-of-war conditions. War is as much a cultural endeavor as it is a military undertaking, and the absence of a clear sensemaking narrative was detected in this study of public administrators from three agencies with varying proximity to the co…

  • Employee Commitment and Firefighters: It’s My Job

    Open AccessSeok–hwan Lee, Dorothy OlshfskiARTICLEPublic Administration Review2002References: 9

    The events of September 11, 2001, have led us to rethink the importance of public service and public–sector employees’ commitment. In previous research, we argued that employee commitment is a construct comprising three dimensions: commitment to the boss, to the work group, and to the organization. However, this characterization cannot explain the behavior of public employees on September 11. For this article, we argue that employee commitment is…

  • The Empowerment Construct in Manager-Executive Relationships

    Open AccessDorothy Olshfski, Robert CunninghamARTICLEAdministration & Society1998Cited by: 2References: 15

    Empowerment is common to both the scholarly and the popular management literature. However, empowerment’s many interpretations have dulled the concept as a research tool. Here, empowerment is separated into perceived environment and individual behavior components. The linkage between organization environment and managerial behavior is tested with a population of 23 effective managers. It is found that an accepting or empowering environment increa…

  • Rejoinder to Keller and Spicer

    Marcia Lynn Whicker, Ruth Ann Strickland et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1996References: 2

    The article presents the authors' response to a critique of an article that levied several criticisms arguing for stronger links between political science and public administration. In their commentary on our article, Keller and Spicer levied four criticisms arguing for stronger links between political science and public administration. The approaches Keller and Spicer do espouse are not contradictory with viewing government as a system, and, ind…

  • Teaching Public Administration by Exploiting Managerial Experience

    Open AccessDorothy OlshfskiARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics1994References: 1

    Administration1. Students are predominantly white males from middle-class families.2. The main sources for these video clips were the ABC News interactive discs, Powers of the Congress, Powers of the President, and Powers of the Supreme Court; a preproduction video disc designed to accompany Ken Janda's American government text, The Challenge of Democracy, Houghton Mifflin Publisher; an American government disc marketed by Harper-Collins; and var…

  • The Troublesome Cleft: Public Administration and Political Science

    Marcia Lynn Whicker, Dorothy Olshfski et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1993References: 15

    How have we progressed in our 100-year-old debate about the politics/administration dichotomy? Marcia Whicker, Ruth Strickland, and Dorothy Olshfski argue that public management is examined within political science as conversion variable. While political science has not reached consensus about single, discipline-dependent variable, knowledge of the concepts as used-power, justice, equity, conflict, andpolicy-is usefulforpublic managers. At this p…

  • The Leadership Environment of Public Sector Executives

    Dorothy Olshfski, Dorothy F Olshfski et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1989Cited by: 3

  • Interpreting State Administrator- Legislator Relationships

    Open AccessRobert Cunningham, Dorothy OlshfskiARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1986Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Interpreting State Administrator-Legislator Relationships

    Robert Cunningham, Dorothy OlshfskiARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1986Cited by: 3