Geoff Plimmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1656358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Plimmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Plimmer |
| SIGNATURE | PLIMMER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2985-3851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Performing change
What does the practice of internal organizational restructuring reveal about the institutional logics that shape public sector reform? This study examines 356 restructuring cases in New Zealand’s public service (2018–2021) through a narrative analysis of formal consultation documents. It identifies how restructures are framed through symbolic rhetoric, implemented without supporting practices, and used to exercise managerial discretion. Rather th…
Employee Performance Management
Employee performance management (PM) can benefit employees, organizations, and wider stakeholders, but it is often done poorly, and public administrations pose contextual constraints to doing it well. It has inherent tensions between the goal of accountability and development, is complex, and requires alignment across both a formal administrative level and an informal psychosocial level. In public administration, three contextual factors add comp…
Strategic program management
Strategic program management (SPM) is an approach for advancing the aspirations of programs and their impact. While programs are omnipresent in government, concerns exist that they are not always strategically managed. Studies that examine SPM are lacking. This study defines and conceptualizes SPM, examines it in two national governments (Brazil and Indonesia), and focuses on felt performance accountability as a driver of SPM use. SPM use is high…
Despotic vs narcissistic leadership
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate whether two types of destructive leadership styles – despotic and narcissistic – predict turnover intentions of nurses via emotional exhaustion, drawing from the conservation of resources theory and the unfolding theory of turnover. Design/methodology/approach This paper used multiwave data collected from 731 nurses working in Palestinian hospitals. Structural equation modeling using partial lea…
Gendered executive headhunting with Chinese characteristics
Women executives face many barriers to career advancement, which then limits the advancement of women lower down the hierarchy. This study looks at the secretive and elite world of executive search (headhunting) as a gatekeeping system that hinders women's career advancement in China. Interviews were carried out with headhunters in China, including two in Taiwan to test transferability. Findings of this study show that executive women in China fa…
The negative relationships between employee resilience and ambiguity, complexity, and inter‐agency collaboration
Employee resilience (ER) is often needed to face demands inherent in public sector work. Some types of demands, however, may hinder its development, rather than provide the type of challenging adversity from which resilience can develop. Public sector job demands have been a long‐standing issue for public workplaces and employees but are also growing in salience as organisations face an increasingly variable, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous env…
Performance management in the Vietnam public sector
Employee performance management (PM) is often promoted as an innovation to improve public sector performance, but globally is hard to implement. Vietnam, like other transitional countries, faces added implementation problems; PM conflicts with aspects of traditional culture and its public sector lacks accountability. This mixed methods study is based on a research sample of 322 participants from 29 Vietnamese public organizations. Results show th…
Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values
Past studies raise concerns that generic transactional leadership has low effectiveness and may reduce intrinsic motivations and commitments in the public sector. This study introduces public value‐focused transactional leadership (PVTL) as transactional leadership that makes public values central in employee job expectations and rewards and fills gaps in transformational leadership. A dyadic study finds that managers using public values in trans…
Building people up
Public services face increasing and more varied demands, but public service managers often lack the resources to develop their staff to effectively deal with them. This paper identifies how public sector line managers can support their subordinates to not just cope with challenges, but also to grow and develop in the midst of them. It primarily draws on employee attributions of leader effectiveness, to identify growth‐oriented leadership behaviou…
Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations
Government organisations, and their employees, need to be resilient to manage challenges such as resource constraints, rising demands, and the tensions and contradictions that underlie much public sector work, often stemming from the need to balance different stakeholder interests. Employee resilience, defined as the capacity to continuously adapt and flourish, even in the face of challenge, is an individual level construct that also benefits org…
Expectations, Trust, and ‘No Surprises’
How autonomous are New Zealand Crown entities really? Although agencification and the autonomy of governmental agenda has been high on the research agenda in most modern industrialised jurisdictions since the mid‐1990s, the discussion in New Zealand on the role of the Crown entities has more indirectly touched upon this issue. Based on the international literature on agency autonomy, this article presents new empirical evidence. The study is base…
Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations
Government organisations, and their employees, need to be resilient to manage challenges such as resource constraints, rising demands, and the tensions and contradictions that underlie much public sector work, often stemming from the need to balance different stakeholder interests. Employee resilience, defined as the capacity to continuously adapt and flourish, even in the face of challenge, is an individual level construct that also benefits org…
Gendered executive headhunting with Chinese characteristics
Women executives face many barriers to career advancement, which then limits the advancement of women lower down the hierarchy. This study looks at the secretive and elite world of executive search (headhunting) as a gatekeeping system that hinders women's career advancement in China. Interviews were carried out with headhunters in China, including two in Taiwan to test transferability. Findings of this study show that executive women in China fa…
Building people up
Public services face increasing and more varied demands, but public service managers often lack the resources to develop their staff to effectively deal with them. This paper identifies how public sector line managers can support their subordinates to not just cope with challenges, but also to grow and develop in the midst of them. It primarily draws on employee attributions of leader effectiveness, to identify growth‐oriented leadership behaviou…
Expectations, Trust, and ‘No Surprises’
How autonomous are New Zealand Crown entities really? Although agencification and the autonomy of governmental agenda has been high on the research agenda in most modern industrialised jurisdictions since the mid‐1990s, the discussion in New Zealand on the role of the Crown entities has more indirectly touched upon this issue. Based on the international literature on agency autonomy, this article presents new empirical evidence. The study is base…
Paradoxical leadership in public sector organisations
Government organisations, and their employees, need to be resilient to manage challenges such as resource constraints, rising demands, and the tensions and contradictions that underlie much public sector work, often stemming from the need to balance different stakeholder interests. Employee resilience, defined as the capacity to continuously adapt and flourish, even in the face of challenge, is an individual level construct that also benefits org…
Building people up
Public services face increasing and more varied demands, but public service managers often lack the resources to develop their staff to effectively deal with them. This paper identifies how public sector line managers can support their subordinates to not just cope with challenges, but also to grow and develop in the midst of them. It primarily draws on employee attributions of leader effectiveness, to identify growth‐oriented leadership behaviou…
Performance management in the Vietnam public sector
Employee performance management (PM) is often promoted as an innovation to improve public sector performance, but globally is hard to implement. Vietnam, like other transitional countries, faces added implementation problems; PM conflicts with aspects of traditional culture and its public sector lacks accountability. This mixed methods study is based on a research sample of 322 participants from 29 Vietnamese public organizations. Results show th…
Enriching Transactional Leadership with Public Values
Past studies raise concerns that generic transactional leadership has low effectiveness and may reduce intrinsic motivations and commitments in the public sector. This study introduces public value‐focused transactional leadership (PVTL) as transactional leadership that makes public values central in employee job expectations and rewards and fills gaps in transformational leadership. A dyadic study finds that managers using public values in trans…
Despotic vs narcissistic leadership
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate whether two types of destructive leadership styles – despotic and narcissistic – predict turnover intentions of nurses via emotional exhaustion, drawing from the conservation of resources theory and the unfolding theory of turnover. Design/methodology/approach This paper used multiwave data collected from 731 nurses working in Palestinian hospitals. Structural equation modeling using partial lea…
Gendered executive headhunting with Chinese characteristics
Women executives face many barriers to career advancement, which then limits the advancement of women lower down the hierarchy. This study looks at the secretive and elite world of executive search (headhunting) as a gatekeeping system that hinders women's career advancement in China. Interviews were carried out with headhunters in China, including two in Taiwan to test transferability. Findings of this study show that executive women in China fa…
The negative relationships between employee resilience and ambiguity, complexity, and inter‐agency collaboration
Employee resilience (ER) is often needed to face demands inherent in public sector work. Some types of demands, however, may hinder its development, rather than provide the type of challenging adversity from which resilience can develop. Public sector job demands have been a long‐standing issue for public workplaces and employees but are also growing in salience as organisations face an increasingly variable, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous env…
Employee Performance Management
Employee performance management (PM) can benefit employees, organizations, and wider stakeholders, but it is often done poorly, and public administrations pose contextual constraints to doing it well. It has inherent tensions between the goal of accountability and development, is complex, and requires alignment across both a formal administrative level and an informal psychosocial level. In public administration, three contextual factors add comp…
Strategic program management
Strategic program management (SPM) is an approach for advancing the aspirations of programs and their impact. While programs are omnipresent in government, concerns exist that they are not always strategically managed. Studies that examine SPM are lacking. This study defines and conceptualizes SPM, examines it in two national governments (Brazil and Indonesia), and focuses on felt performance accountability as a driver of SPM use. SPM use is high…
Performing change
What does the practice of internal organizational restructuring reveal about the institutional logics that shape public sector reform? This study examines 356 restructuring cases in New Zealand’s public service (2018–2021) through a narrative analysis of formal consultation documents. It identifies how restructures are framed through symbolic rhetoric, implemented without supporting practices, and used to exercise managerial discretion. Rather th…
Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Public sector (7 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (6 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (6 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Accountability (3 works)