Robert K Christensen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1492979 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert K Christensen |
| NOMBRES | Robert K |
| APELLIDO | Christensen |
| FIRMA | CHRISTENSEN R K |
| AFILIACIONES | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6850-4975 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 492 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Separation of Powers Theory and Public Service Motivation in Nonprofit, Public, and Private Sector Managers
A normative public administration theory, separation of powers, argues that successful managers examine issues through managerial, political, and legal lenses, balancing the often competing values inherent in each lens. We build an exploratory measurement model to see if these public service values-based lenses operate in reality and whether they inform managers' decisions. Our survey data, approximately 500 working adults who are residents of th…
A systematic review of person‐environment fit in the public sector
Following PRISMA guidelines, this study offers a systematic review of 78 articles on person‐environment (P‐E) fit in the public sector. The study reveals both an emphasis on supplementary person‐organization (P‐O) fit and its relationship to public service motivation (PSM). We also find evidence of both bottom‐up and top‐down processes that mutually adjust to determine fit over time. Building on these findings, we propose an integrative theory th…
Assessing Gender Equity in Public Administration Research
The foundational theories of public administration emphasize equity. The present study investigates whether we have behaved accordingly in our own scholarship and theorizes a forward-looking model. Do female scholars enjoy equal representation across public administration's top subfield journals? Our empirical analysis emphasizes what others have found: Gender disparities have persisted in our field. For example, female first authors are less pre…
Who Shapes the Law? Gender and Racial Bias in Judicial Citations
In this letter, we assess whether the contributions of judges from underrepresented groups are undervalued or overlooked, thereby reducing these judges' influence on legal policy. Drawing on an original dataset of discretionary citations to over 2,000 published federal appellate decisions, we find that the majority of opinions written by female judges receive less attention from other courts than those by similarly situated men and that this is l…
A systematic literature review of city competitiveness
This article synthesizes the cross-disciplinary literature on city competitiveness published in the past three decades to bring attention to competitiveness as a key topic for public administration and local government performance. We systematically reviewed research regarding city competitiveness, its measurement, and its antecendents. Subsequently, to explore the link between local governments and competitiveness, we articulated multiple perspe…
Creating a public service topology
Public service motivation (PSM), public service values (PSV), and public service ethos (PSE), we argue, constitute theoretically complementary dimensions of public service psychology. Using multi‐dimensional scaling (MDS), we also empirically map the three constructs to identify their interrelationships as constituent parts of a public service topology. Using a survey of public and private employees, we determined which of the PSM, PSV, and PSE i…
Moderating Diversity, Collective Commitment, and Discrimination
Despite public administration’s growing interest in personnel diversity and ethical leadership, little is known about the effectiveness of ethical leadership in managing diverse public workforces. Can ethical leadership moderate the relationships between demographic diversity and key organizational outcomes? To answer, we synthesize four theories about demographic diversity, ethical leadership, and inclusion: social categorization theory, social …
Additional intervention evidence on the relationship between public service motivation and ethical behavior
The nascent scholarship on public service motivation (PSM) and ethics exhibits mixed findings. This research article aims to describe and relate the current landscape of findings in this arena and to conduct an experiment that addresses design weaknesses that may explain some past null findings. Using a national sample of college-age respondents, we found that although self-reported PSM was positively correlated with ethical intentions, prosocial…
Crowding-in or Crowding-out? How Subsidies Signal the Path to Financial Independence of Social Enterprises
In today’s multisector configurations, there is little clarity about whether and how public and private subsidies influence social enterprises’ pursuit of financial stability. We address the strategic role of donors in the social-business life cycle whereby social enterprise start-ups rely on subsidies, while mature social enterprises strive for independence from donors. To address the “missing middle,” we develop a typology of subsidy instrument…
Softening Performance's Pitfalls by Integrating Context and Capacity
This article argues that government performance is better understood and managed within a broader competitiveness framework. Government competitiveness recursively integrates performance with organizational capacity and context. We illustrate this more holistic view with recent COVID‐19 examples as well as recent scholarship, including some recent PAR publications related to this topic
Does psychological empowerment condition the impact of public service motivation on perceived organizational performance? Evidence from the US federal government
Although the relationships between public service motivation and work-related outcomes are contingent on an employee’s psychological state, little empirical evidence exists on whether psychological empowerment conditions the relationship between public service motivation and perceived organizational performance in public organizations. This study addresses this gap by examining data from the 2010 US Merit Principles Survey on psychological empowe…
All eyes are on you
Because stereotyping affects individual assessments of ability and because of socializing experiences in the law, we argue that women and judges of color, while well-credentialed, feel pressure to work harder than their white male peers to demonstrate their competence. Using an original dataset of published appellate court opinions from 2008-2016, we find that majority opinions authored by female and non-white judges go farther to explain and jus…
Systematically Reviewing American Law and Public Administration
Many of the world’s most pressing issues lay at the intersection of law and public administration. However, many have long lamented the relatively weak and atomized state of law and public administration scholarship. In this article, we use bibliometric and content analyses to systematically assess the last 20 years of literature, exploring the extent to which law and public administration have developed as a coherent paradigm. In short, we provi…
Diversity, consensus, and decision making
In this article, we identify key theoretical perspectives from the literature in social and organizational psychology on diversity and workgroups and apply these concepts to an analysis of decision making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Using data from twelve circuits over two decades, we leverage the diversification of the federal appellate bench to investigate the nature of the relationship between changes to a court’s gender and racial composit…
Status characteristics and their intersectionality
We test whether justices’ traits – race, gender, age, previous judicial experience, education, and tenure – are associated with opinion assignment patterns as suggested by status characteristics theory. Female justices were more likely to be asked to write the majority opinion, particularly if the case raised a “women’s issue.” In complex cases, however, both female and African American justices were less likely to be selected to write the majori…
The Dynamic Impact of Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit organizations have the potential to influence public health by filling voids not filled by government or private organizations. Here we investigate whether the presence of health-related nonprofit organizations at the local community level helps to improve community-level obesity. This study used a time-series design using a random effects model to determine whether the entrance or exits of health nonprofits at the county level was asso…
Giving at Work
This research addresses an area of philanthropic study that is becoming an increasingly important revenue source for the nonprofit sector: workplace giving campaigns. We used Independent Sector’s Giving and Volunteering (Giving and volunteering [United States] [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.3886/icpsr35584.v1, 2001) data to explore patterns of household philanthropy. We found that exposure to a workplace giving option increases the odds that a ho…
Can budget ambiguity crowd out intrinsic motivation? Longitudinal evidence from federal executive departments
While some scholars have assessed how various features of organizational structure shape intrinsic motivation, the role of budgets and, in particular, programme funding has been overlooked. To address this gap in the literature, we examine how programme funding decisions impact employee motivation. Referencing previous work, we hypothesize that funding choices that emphasize some programmes over others signal clearer organizational goals for empl…
Public service motivation and ethical behavior
Public service motivation (PSM) research has grown rapidly in the last several decades, largely focused on the role of PSM in employment decisions and employee performance. More recently, researchers have raised the possibility that PSM may play a role in workplace ethical behavior. In this study we sought to empirically articulate this link with evidence from three experimental studies. Across three experiments our research fails to confirm the …
Organization Performance in Turbulent Environments
This study uses a natural experiment of school performance during Hurricane Rita in 2005 to investigate the impact of administrative intensity on student achievement in turbulent environments. Administrative intensity constitutes the bureaucratic capacity of the workforce, which we measure as a ratio of noncore to core personnel. Scholars have debated the contingent impact of administrative intensity on organizational performance and policy outco…
Bridging the Public Service Motivation and Calling Literatures
Public administration research suggests there may be disparity in the extent to which public servants experience their work as a calling. The purpose of this article is to better illustrate and integrate calling research, which grows out of the positive organizational scholarship movement, into how we understand public service motives. The calling scholarship offers a productive way to view differences in public servants' orientations toward thei…
Race and Gender Bias in Three Administrative Contexts
The Role of Employees’ Public Service Motives and Organizational Commitment in Workplace Giving Campaigns
Workplace giving campaigns, like the Combined Federal Campaign, have increased in participation and prominence in recent years. Organizations across all sectors of society frequently encourage employees to voluntarily donate either directly or through payroll deduction. In the nascent research on workplace giving, there has been relatively little focus on how employee attributes, especially motivational and organizational commitment traits, might…
Public Service Motivation Research
Public service motivation research has proliferated in parallel with concerns about how to improve the performance of public service personnel. However, scholarship does not always inform management and leadership. This article purposefully reviews public service motivation research since 2008 to determine the extent to which researchers have identified lessons for practice. The results of the investigation support several lessons—among them usin…
The Limits and Possibilities of Volunteering
Despite popular rhetoric concerning the benefits of volunteerism for public and nonprofit organizations, the use and management of volunteers to assist in the delivery of services is uneven: some organizations rely heavily on volunteer labor for this purpose, while others circumscribe volunteer contributions or eschew volunteer involvement altogether. This article introduces eight dimensions of volunteer involvement—four involving organizational …
Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation across Populations
The growth in international research on public service motivation (PSM) raises a number of important questions about the degree to which the theory and research developed in one country can contribute to our understanding of PSM in other counties. To help address this issue, this study revisits the conceptual and operational definitions of PSM to address weaknesses previously noted in the literature. Although some important steps have been taken …
The Effects of Public Service Motivation on Job Choice Decisions
Although most research focuses on person-organization fit to explain public service motivation (PSM)'s influence on job choice, this study investigates the independent effects of both person-organization fit and person-job fit using a policy capturing research design and a sample of first-year law students. Our findings suggest that PSM may play a more important role in person-job fit than person-organization fit. Consistent across three sectors …
Public Service Motivation Research
Public service motivation research has proliferated in parallel with concerns about how to improve the performance of public service personnel. However, scholarship does not always inform management and leadership. This article purposefully reviews public service motivation research since 2008 to determine the extent to which researchers have identified lessons for practice. The results of the investigation support several lessons—among them usin…
Motivated to Adapt? The Role of Public Service Motivation as Employees Face Organizational Change
Researchers concerned with organizational change have consistently emphasized the role that the work environment plays in employee acceptance of change. Underexamined in the public management literature, however, is the role that employee values, particularly public service motivation ( PSM ), may play in employee acceptance of change. Some scholars have noted a positive correlation between employee PSM and organizational change efforts; this art…
Management, Law, and the Pursuit of the Public Good in Public Administration
The tension between managerialism and legalism in public administration has been a recurring theme at Minnowbrook conferences. This tension, increasingly evident in the literature, is couched in the often-conflicting values of efficiency and performance, on one hand, and legal and democratic values such as accountability, equality, and transparency, on the other hand. Building on conversations we began at Minnowbrook III, we specify a three-part …
Looking at a Job's Social Impact Through Psm‐tinted Lenses
We explore here the relationship between employees' public service motives and the way they perceive the social impact of their work. Our purpose is twofold. First, while past researchers have examined part of this relationship, largely from the opposite causal direction, we seek to supplement the field's current understanding of the organizational consequences of public service motivation ( PSM ), especially its potential impact on an employee's…
Race and Gender Bias in Three Administrative Contexts
Do certain types of administrative processes better inhibit race and gender prejudices that may surface in the public workplace? We compare the effects of three distinct administrative settings on race, gender, and other biases in the workload assignments of state supreme court justices—important public policy making settings that have been understudied in public administration. In particular, we model the extent to which majority opinion–writing…
The Ukrainian Orange Revolution brought more than a new president
The authors discuss the institutional changes proposed in Ukraine’s constitutional framework and election laws that could fundamentally alter the separation of powers and the responsiveness of Ukrainian government to the electorate. We analyze the proposed institutional changes from the perspective of what they portend for Ukraine’s democratic transition. Building on the most recent vein of democratization studies examining institutional factors …
All eyes are on you
Because stereotyping affects individual assessments of ability and because of socializing experiences in the law, we argue that women and judges of color, while well-credentialed, feel pressure to work harder than their white male peers to demonstrate their competence. Using an original dataset of published appellate court opinions from 2008-2016, we find that majority opinions authored by female and non-white judges go farther to explain and jus…
Gender, Race, and Dissensus on State Supreme Courts
Objectives The objectives of this study were to integrate multiple streams of research on judicial dissensus to better understand the causes of state court of last resort justices’ decisions to dissent. The study particularly focused on the relationship between dissent and gender and race (and their intersection) at the individual and panel level. Methods We employed probit regression with clustered standard errors of the population of state cour…
Who Shapes the Law? Gender and Racial Bias in Judicial Citations
In this letter, we assess whether the contributions of judges from underrepresented groups are undervalued or overlooked, thereby reducing these judges' influence on legal policy. Drawing on an original dataset of discretionary citations to over 2,000 published federal appellate decisions, we find that the majority of opinions written by female judges receive less attention from other courts than those by similarly situated men and that this is l…
A Full and Fair Capacity
Federal courts play a significant role in the management and execution of public programs. Judicial intervention is evident in examples ranging from prisons to mental hospitals to schools. To clarify the appropriateness of federal judicial intervention, the authors construct a so-called full and fair judicial and administrative capacity standard. Where state judicial and administrative capacities are evident, federal courts do well to refrain fro…
Organization Performance in Turbulent Environments
This study uses a natural experiment of school performance during Hurricane Rita in 2005 to investigate the impact of administrative intensity on student achievement in turbulent environments. Administrative intensity constitutes the bureaucratic capacity of the workforce, which we measure as a ratio of noncore to core personnel. Scholars have debated the contingent impact of administrative intensity on organizational performance and policy outco…
Place, Time, and Philanthropy
America is a nation of movers, and this has implications for public and nonprofit managers who rely on donations and volunteers to increase the capacity of nonprofits and to strengthen local communities. This article explores the impact of time and place on philanthropic engagement, focusing on how three aspects of community—sense of belonging, social connections, and regional culture—are related to volunteering and giving to local organizations.…
Status characteristics and their intersectionality
We test whether justices’ traits – race, gender, age, previous judicial experience, education, and tenure – are associated with opinion assignment patterns as suggested by status characteristics theory. Female justices were more likely to be asked to write the majority opinion, particularly if the case raised a “women’s issue.” In complex cases, however, both female and African American justices were less likely to be selected to write the majori…
Going Green in Public Organizations
Public servants are expected to be good stewards of resources, including the energy and environmental resources consumed in a public organization’s day-to-day operations. Many government organizations have enacted policies to mitigate the environmental impact of their operations. Even in the absence of formal policies, however, individual public employees might engage in a number of discretionary, pro-environmental behaviors known as eco-initiati…
Creating a public service topology
Public service motivation (PSM), public service values (PSV), and public service ethos (PSE), we argue, constitute theoretically complementary dimensions of public service psychology. Using multi‐dimensional scaling (MDS), we also empirically map the three constructs to identify their interrelationships as constituent parts of a public service topology. Using a survey of public and private employees, we determined which of the PSM, PSV, and PSE i…
Moderating Diversity, Collective Commitment, and Discrimination
Despite public administration’s growing interest in personnel diversity and ethical leadership, little is known about the effectiveness of ethical leadership in managing diverse public workforces. Can ethical leadership moderate the relationships between demographic diversity and key organizational outcomes? To answer, we synthesize four theories about demographic diversity, ethical leadership, and inclusion: social categorization theory, social …
Softening Performance's Pitfalls by Integrating Context and Capacity
This article argues that government performance is better understood and managed within a broader competitiveness framework. Government competitiveness recursively integrates performance with organizational capacity and context. We illustrate this more holistic view with recent COVID‐19 examples as well as recent scholarship, including some recent PAR publications related to this topic
Diversity, consensus, and decision making
In this article, we identify key theoretical perspectives from the literature in social and organizational psychology on diversity and workgroups and apply these concepts to an analysis of decision making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Using data from twelve circuits over two decades, we leverage the diversification of the federal appellate bench to investigate the nature of the relationship between changes to a court’s gender and racial composit…
Does psychological empowerment condition the impact of public service motivation on perceived organizational performance? Evidence from the US federal government
Although the relationships between public service motivation and work-related outcomes are contingent on an employee’s psychological state, little empirical evidence exists on whether psychological empowerment conditions the relationship between public service motivation and perceived organizational performance in public organizations. This study addresses this gap by examining data from the 2010 US Merit Principles Survey on psychological empowe…
Law and Public Policy
Law and public policy is a dynamic, interdisciplinary area of study that has broad appeal to scholars, policymakers, and stakeholders. Scholarship in the subfield is critical to our general understanding of existing public policies and calls for future and reformed policies. While some of the subfield's utility and commonalities are obscured by diverging methodological approaches and topical foci, this review highlights some common fibers that ru…
Predicting young women's role preference for parenting and work
The Dynamic Impact of Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit organizations have the potential to influence public health by filling voids not filled by government or private organizations. Here we investigate whether the presence of health-related nonprofit organizations at the local community level helps to improve community-level obesity. This study used a time-series design using a random effects model to determine whether the entrance or exits of health nonprofits at the county level was asso…
Giving at Work
This research addresses an area of philanthropic study that is becoming an increasingly important revenue source for the nonprofit sector: workplace giving campaigns. We used Independent Sector’s Giving and Volunteering (Giving and volunteering [United States] [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.3886/icpsr35584.v1, 2001) data to explore patterns of household philanthropy. We found that exposure to a workplace giving option increases the odds that a ho…
Predicting young women's role preference for parenting and work
A Full and Fair Capacity
Federal courts play a significant role in the management and execution of public programs. Judicial intervention is evident in examples ranging from prisons to mental hospitals to schools. To clarify the appropriateness of federal judicial intervention, the authors construct a so-called full and fair judicial and administrative capacity standard. Where state judicial and administrative capacities are evident, federal courts do well to refrain fro…
The Ukrainian Orange Revolution brought more than a new president
The authors discuss the institutional changes proposed in Ukraine’s constitutional framework and election laws that could fundamentally alter the separation of powers and the responsiveness of Ukrainian government to the electorate. We analyze the proposed institutional changes from the perspective of what they portend for Ukraine’s democratic transition. Building on the most recent vein of democratization studies examining institutional factors …
Capacity for public administration
Public administration researchers and practitioners have placed a heavy emphasis on the theme of programme performance. More recently, there has been a growing sentiment in the literature about the integral role of organisational capacity in achieving performance. While this is often expressed in the (re)iteration of a ‘management matters’ mantra, we see some disarray in the broader capacity literature both in definition and application. As schol…
Light and Dark Sides of Nonprofit Activities and the Rules to Manage Them
Nonprofit organizations face numerous challenges in balancing mission and nonmission pressures. These competing demands create tensions that must be managed if nonprofits are to balance the light and the dark aspects of their activities. In addition to government regulation, the authors examine other sources of “rules” used to navigate light/dark tensions in the nonprofit sector. Drawing on one form of nonprofit activity—charitable bingo—this art…
Dead or Alive? The Federalism Revolution and Its Meaning for Public Administration
Federalism jurisprudence shapes the powers that public administrators have to achieve policy priorities. Federalism, however, is neither static nor simplistic as a concept, and a proper understanding of the environment in which public administrators work rests on a careful analysis of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The authors review claims that a 2005 decision, Gonzales v. Raich, terminated a federalism revolution that had been ushered in a decad…
Public Service Motivation
Public service motivation (PSM) research suggests that PSM influences employee sector choice, yet relatively little research examines how time moderates this relationship. In this research we examine public service motivation among private and public sector lawyers. Using survey data that measure sector of employment at multiple time periods, we investigate the stability of the relationship between individual reward orientations and sector employ…
The Effects of Public Service Motivation on Job Choice Decisions
Although most research focuses on person-organization fit to explain public service motivation (PSM)'s influence on job choice, this study investigates the independent effects of both person-organization fit and person-job fit using a policy capturing research design and a sample of first-year law students. Our findings suggest that PSM may play a more important role in person-job fit than person-organization fit. Consistent across three sectors …
Management, Law, and the Pursuit of the Public Good in Public Administration
The tension between managerialism and legalism in public administration has been a recurring theme at Minnowbrook conferences. This tension, increasingly evident in the literature, is couched in the often-conflicting values of efficiency and performance, on one hand, and legal and democratic values such as accountability, equality, and transparency, on the other hand. Building on conversations we began at Minnowbrook III, we specify a three-part …
Place, Time, and Philanthropy
America is a nation of movers, and this has implications for public and nonprofit managers who rely on donations and volunteers to increase the capacity of nonprofits and to strengthen local communities. This article explores the impact of time and place on philanthropic engagement, focusing on how three aspects of community—sense of belonging, social connections, and regional culture—are related to volunteering and giving to local organizations.…
Race and Gender Bias in Three Administrative Contexts
Do certain types of administrative processes better inhibit race and gender prejudices that may surface in the public workplace? We compare the effects of three distinct administrative settings on race, gender, and other biases in the workload assignments of state supreme court justices—important public policy making settings that have been understudied in public administration. In particular, we model the extent to which majority opinion–writing…
Measuring Public Service Motivation
Our ability to interpret, generalize, and build theory across public service motivation (PSM) studies is limited by lack of knowledge regarding the equivalence of different PSM measures that researchers frequently use. While past research has given considerable attention to validating multidimensional measures of PSM, this study investigates the psychometric properties of the global measures that have been used to provide much of the empirical ev…
Philanthropic Mobility and the Influence of Duration of Donor Residency on Donation Choices
Scholars have long been interested in what influences philanthropic behavior. However, little is known about the effects of length of residency on charitable gifts to local and non-local organizations. Using 2010 survey data from 470 older individuals, we examine whether donors’ geographic relocations influence philanthropic behavior and whether these moves are a bigger challenge for some types of nonprofits than others. We find variations in giv…
Motivated to Adapt? The Role of Public Service Motivation as Employees Face Organizational Change
Researchers concerned with organizational change have consistently emphasized the role that the work environment plays in employee acceptance of change. Underexamined in the public management literature, however, is the role that employee values, particularly public service motivation ( PSM ), may play in employee acceptance of change. Some scholars have noted a positive correlation between employee PSM and organizational change efforts; this art…
Looking at a Job's Social Impact Through Psm‐tinted Lenses
We explore here the relationship between employees' public service motives and the way they perceive the social impact of their work. Our purpose is twofold. First, while past researchers have examined part of this relationship, largely from the opposite causal direction, we seek to supplement the field's current understanding of the organizational consequences of public service motivation ( PSM ), especially its potential impact on an employee's…
Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation across Populations
The growth in international research on public service motivation (PSM) raises a number of important questions about the degree to which the theory and research developed in one country can contribute to our understanding of PSM in other counties. To help address this issue, this study revisits the conceptual and operational definitions of PSM to address weaknesses previously noted in the literature. Although some important steps have been taken …
Law and Public Policy
Law and public policy is a dynamic, interdisciplinary area of study that has broad appeal to scholars, policymakers, and stakeholders. Scholarship in the subfield is critical to our general understanding of existing public policies and calls for future and reformed policies. While some of the subfield's utility and commonalities are obscured by diverging methodological approaches and topical foci, this review highlights some common fibers that ru…
Going Green in Public Organizations
Public servants are expected to be good stewards of resources, including the energy and environmental resources consumed in a public organization’s day-to-day operations. Many government organizations have enacted policies to mitigate the environmental impact of their operations. Even in the absence of formal policies, however, individual public employees might engage in a number of discretionary, pro-environmental behaviors known as eco-initiati…
Concepts to Advance Public Service Contribution? Equity, Motivation, and Altruism
Gender, Race, and Dissensus on State Supreme Courts
Objectives The objectives of this study were to integrate multiple streams of research on judicial dissensus to better understand the causes of state court of last resort justices’ decisions to dissent. The study particularly focused on the relationship between dissent and gender and race (and their intersection) at the individual and panel level. Methods We employed probit regression with clustered standard errors of the population of state cour…
The Vagary and Value of Resource Dependence in Understanding Institutions of Higher Education
Related Content: Balfour and Newbold (PAR September/October 2016
Race and Gender Bias in Three Administrative Contexts
The Role of Employees’ Public Service Motives and Organizational Commitment in Workplace Giving Campaigns
Workplace giving campaigns, like the Combined Federal Campaign, have increased in participation and prominence in recent years. Organizations across all sectors of society frequently encourage employees to voluntarily donate either directly or through payroll deduction. In the nascent research on workplace giving, there has been relatively little focus on how employee attributes, especially motivational and organizational commitment traits, might…
Public Service Motivation Research
Public service motivation research has proliferated in parallel with concerns about how to improve the performance of public service personnel. However, scholarship does not always inform management and leadership. This article purposefully reviews public service motivation research since 2008 to determine the extent to which researchers have identified lessons for practice. The results of the investigation support several lessons—among them usin…
The Limits and Possibilities of Volunteering
Despite popular rhetoric concerning the benefits of volunteerism for public and nonprofit organizations, the use and management of volunteers to assist in the delivery of services is uneven: some organizations rely heavily on volunteer labor for this purpose, while others circumscribe volunteer contributions or eschew volunteer involvement altogether. This article introduces eight dimensions of volunteer involvement—four involving organizational …
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