Michael O’donnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 178105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael O’donnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | O’donnell |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONNELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8953-3609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The unintended consequences of the blended workforce in the Australian Public Service: Effects on middle manager well‐being
The adoption of a blended workforce model, comprising both ongoing and non‐ongoing employees, has become increasingly common in public sector organisations. Despite known challenges, including high turnover and knowledge gaps, its impact on middle managers’ well‐being remains understudied. The study addresses this by exploring how the blended workforce model affects middle manager well‐being within the Australian Public Service (APS). Using quali…
The Use and Usefulness of Attention Checks in Behavioral Research
Attention checks have been touted as a means of excluding inattentive and careless responses from survey data. As a result, numerous approaches have been proposed, but relatively little attention has been paid to which ones are most helpful. The present article demonstrates that this blind spot has obscured vast differences in attention check efficacy. An initial survey of consumer-behavior and decision-making researchers revealed six commonly us…
John Michael O’Brien (21 December 1945–10 January 2023)
Retracted Article: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable
Failures to replicate evidence of new discoveries have forced scientists to ask whether this unreliability is due to suboptimal implementation of methods or whether presumptively optimal methods are not, in fact, optimal. This paper reports an investigation by four coordinated laboratories of the prospective replicability of 16 novel experimental findings using rigour-enhancing practices: confirmatory tests, large sample sizes, preregistration an…
Bundle Selection and Variety Seeking: The Importance of Combinatorics
When consumers select bundles of goods, they may construct those sequentially (e.g., building a bouquet one flower at a time) or make a single choice of a prepackaged bundle (e.g., selecting an already-complete bouquet). Previous research suggested that the sequential construction of bundles encourages variety seeking. The present research revisits this claim and offers a theoretical explanation rooted in combinatorics and norm communication. Whe…
Embedding Australian Public Service management reforms: The Secretary could not make it so
Public sector leaders in the Australian Public Service (APS) can learn from the demise of programme evaluation introduced as part of managing for results reforms, as they implement the evaluation of agency performance outcomes under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act (2013) (PGPA). This paper demonstrates that public sector management reforms require more than top‐down initiation by agency heads and that implementation need…
Women’s Gender Role Identity and Hallyu Acceptance in Myanmar
Work as a government 'scientist: Professional status security during organisational change and downsizing
An increasingly complex and competitive funding environment has led many public research organisations to intervene in the organisation of scientists' work. Government scientists represent a major component of the public research workforce but little is known of how workers in this sector have fared amid institutional and organisational change. Government scientists have applied research objectives but must still meet the profession's requirement…
Preference Reversals in Willingness to Pay and Choice
A fundamental contribution of consumer behavior research is to help marketing scholars develop an understanding of how people think about and express their preferences. In this article we find that two commonly used preference elicitation procedures, willingness to pay (WTP) and choice, are consistently associated with different expressed preferences. Specifically, choices are associated with a relatively greater preference for hedonic goods, whi…
Making Integrity Institutions Work in South Korea
This article deals with the scandals that engulfed South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, in 2016–17 and the role of popular protest in how she, her confidante, and associated officials and business leaders were pursued, prosecuted, and jailed. The South Korean experience is located in a framework of integrity institutions and the 1986 exemplar of “people power” in the Philippines
Why Performance Management Should Not Be Like Dieting
Globally, organisations have long been preoccupied with using employee performance management to enhance organisational performance. However, due to the compliance‐based way in which it is often implemented, success has been limited. This paper proposes lessons can be learnt from adopting the analogy of ‘dieting’. Short‐term weight‐loss practices can lead to a cyclical pattern that generates weight gain, rather than loss, in longer term. This occ…
Is Willingness to Pay for Non-Consumptive Wildlife Watching Falling? Evidence From Three Rounds of the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation
Since 1955, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has conducted the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Association Recreation (FHWAR) with the purpose of evaluating outdoor recreation. Using the socioeconomic, activity, and contingent valuation data collected from the last three rounds of this national survey (2001, 2006, 2011), econometric modeling demonstrates that variables such as age, income, gender, and type of land vis…
Unintended Consequences: Implications of the 2014 Australian Defence Force Pay Deal
The Workplace Remuneration Arrangement agreed between the Australian Government and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) provides for a 4.5% pay over 3 years for ADF personnel. This article makes use of the concept of the psychological contract to argue that this pay deal represents a breach of the Australian Government's obligations towards ADF personnel that is likely to have unintended consequences for their long‐term commitment to their ADF car…
Effective Practitioner–Scholar Relationships: Lessons from a Coproduction Partnership
This article presents a continuum of possible coproduction arrangements between scholars and practitioners and suggests that greater engagement is necessary to bridge the commonly cited problems that create the gap between research and practice. Reflections on an Australian case of a major public sector coproduction partnership, the highest degree of interaction on the continuum, are used to argue that successful engagement between practitioners …
Beyond elaboration: The interaction of relations and focus in coherent text
Continuity and Change: The New South Wales Public Sector Under Labor
This paper analyses recent developments in wage bargaining in the New South Wales public sector under the Labor government. It contrasts the approach taken by the former Coalition government with that of its successor. The discussion is focused on the Memorandum of Understanding between the Labor government and the public sector unions. With the agreement of the unions, the government has reasserted both substantive and procedural control over pu…
Creating a Performance Culture? Performance‐based Pay in the Australian Public Service
This article provides a critique of the operation of performance‐based pay in the Australian public service from 1992 to 1996 and questions proposals for further experimentation with such managerial initiatives. Performance agreements underpinning performance‐based pay were unable to measure adequately the performance of senior officers undertaking policy work. Appraisal reviews of these agreements also failed to increase performance feedback bet…
A dynamic model of exchange
The terms synoptic and dynamic have been a focus of interest in the systemicfunctional framework in recent years. This paper compares these two approaches to representation, exemplified in terms of an exchange (conversation) model. The distinction is between models which view the exchange as a completed whole (synoptic perspective) , and those which view the exchange from each point within the exchange (dynamic perspective). The synoptic model is…
Another Stab at a Touchy Subject: Affective Meanings of Touch
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames J. BradacMr. Bradac is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Mr. O'Donnell is Assistant Professor of Public Communication at Boston University; and Mr. Tardy is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi.Michael O'DonnellMr. Bradac is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of California, Santa Barb…
Effective Practitioner–Scholar Relationships: Lessons from a Coproduction Partnership
This article presents a continuum of possible coproduction arrangements between scholars and practitioners and suggests that greater engagement is necessary to bridge the commonly cited problems that create the gap between research and practice. Reflections on an Australian case of a major public sector coproduction partnership, the highest degree of interaction on the continuum, are used to argue that successful engagement between practitioners …
A dynamic model of exchange
The terms synoptic and dynamic have been a focus of interest in the systemicfunctional framework in recent years. This paper compares these two approaches to representation, exemplified in terms of an exchange (conversation) model. The distinction is between models which view the exchange as a completed whole (synoptic perspective) , and those which view the exchange from each point within the exchange (dynamic perspective). The synoptic model is…
Preference Reversals in Willingness to Pay and Choice
A fundamental contribution of consumer behavior research is to help marketing scholars develop an understanding of how people think about and express their preferences. In this article we find that two commonly used preference elicitation procedures, willingness to pay (WTP) and choice, are consistently associated with different expressed preferences. Specifically, choices are associated with a relatively greater preference for hedonic goods, whi…
Creating a Performance Culture? Performance‐based Pay in the Australian Public Service
This article provides a critique of the operation of performance‐based pay in the Australian public service from 1992 to 1996 and questions proposals for further experimentation with such managerial initiatives. Performance agreements underpinning performance‐based pay were unable to measure adequately the performance of senior officers undertaking policy work. Appraisal reviews of these agreements also failed to increase performance feedback bet…
Retracted Article: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable
Failures to replicate evidence of new discoveries have forced scientists to ask whether this unreliability is due to suboptimal implementation of methods or whether presumptively optimal methods are not, in fact, optimal. This paper reports an investigation by four coordinated laboratories of the prospective replicability of 16 novel experimental findings using rigour-enhancing practices: confirmatory tests, large sample sizes, preregistration an…
Making Integrity Institutions Work in South Korea
This article deals with the scandals that engulfed South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, in 2016–17 and the role of popular protest in how she, her confidante, and associated officials and business leaders were pursued, prosecuted, and jailed. The South Korean experience is located in a framework of integrity institutions and the 1986 exemplar of “people power” in the Philippines
Another Stab at a Touchy Subject: Affective Meanings of Touch
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames J. BradacMr. Bradac is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Mr. O'Donnell is Assistant Professor of Public Communication at Boston University; and Mr. Tardy is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi.Michael O'DonnellMr. Bradac is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of California, Santa Barb…
Bundle Selection and Variety Seeking: The Importance of Combinatorics
When consumers select bundles of goods, they may construct those sequentially (e.g., building a bouquet one flower at a time) or make a single choice of a prepackaged bundle (e.g., selecting an already-complete bouquet). Previous research suggested that the sequential construction of bundles encourages variety seeking. The present research revisits this claim and offers a theoretical explanation rooted in combinatorics and norm communication. Whe…
Work as a government 'scientist: Professional status security during organisational change and downsizing
An increasingly complex and competitive funding environment has led many public research organisations to intervene in the organisation of scientists' work. Government scientists represent a major component of the public research workforce but little is known of how workers in this sector have fared amid institutional and organisational change. Government scientists have applied research objectives but must still meet the profession's requirement…
Another Stab at a Touchy Subject: Affective Meanings of Touch
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames J. BradacMr. Bradac is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Mr. O'Donnell is Assistant Professor of Public Communication at Boston University; and Mr. Tardy is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi.Michael O'DonnellMr. Bradac is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of California, Santa Barb…
A dynamic model of exchange
The terms synoptic and dynamic have been a focus of interest in the systemicfunctional framework in recent years. This paper compares these two approaches to representation, exemplified in terms of an exchange (conversation) model. The distinction is between models which view the exchange as a completed whole (synoptic perspective) , and those which view the exchange from each point within the exchange (dynamic perspective). The synoptic model is…
Creating a Performance Culture? Performance‐based Pay in the Australian Public Service
This article provides a critique of the operation of performance‐based pay in the Australian public service from 1992 to 1996 and questions proposals for further experimentation with such managerial initiatives. Performance agreements underpinning performance‐based pay were unable to measure adequately the performance of senior officers undertaking policy work. Appraisal reviews of these agreements also failed to increase performance feedback bet…
Continuity and Change: The New South Wales Public Sector Under Labor
This paper analyses recent developments in wage bargaining in the New South Wales public sector under the Labor government. It contrasts the approach taken by the former Coalition government with that of its successor. The discussion is focused on the Memorandum of Understanding between the Labor government and the public sector unions. With the agreement of the unions, the government has reasserted both substantive and procedural control over pu…
Beyond elaboration: The interaction of relations and focus in coherent text
Unintended Consequences: Implications of the 2014 Australian Defence Force Pay Deal
The Workplace Remuneration Arrangement agreed between the Australian Government and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) provides for a 4.5% pay over 3 years for ADF personnel. This article makes use of the concept of the psychological contract to argue that this pay deal represents a breach of the Australian Government's obligations towards ADF personnel that is likely to have unintended consequences for their long‐term commitment to their ADF car…
Effective Practitioner–Scholar Relationships: Lessons from a Coproduction Partnership
This article presents a continuum of possible coproduction arrangements between scholars and practitioners and suggests that greater engagement is necessary to bridge the commonly cited problems that create the gap between research and practice. Reflections on an Australian case of a major public sector coproduction partnership, the highest degree of interaction on the continuum, are used to argue that successful engagement between practitioners …
Is Willingness to Pay for Non-Consumptive Wildlife Watching Falling? Evidence From Three Rounds of the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation
Since 1955, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has conducted the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Association Recreation (FHWAR) with the purpose of evaluating outdoor recreation. Using the socioeconomic, activity, and contingent valuation data collected from the last three rounds of this national survey (2001, 2006, 2011), econometric modeling demonstrates that variables such as age, income, gender, and type of land vis…
Why Performance Management Should Not Be Like Dieting
Globally, organisations have long been preoccupied with using employee performance management to enhance organisational performance. However, due to the compliance‐based way in which it is often implemented, success has been limited. This paper proposes lessons can be learnt from adopting the analogy of ‘dieting’. Short‐term weight‐loss practices can lead to a cyclical pattern that generates weight gain, rather than loss, in longer term. This occ…
Making Integrity Institutions Work in South Korea
This article deals with the scandals that engulfed South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, in 2016–17 and the role of popular protest in how she, her confidante, and associated officials and business leaders were pursued, prosecuted, and jailed. The South Korean experience is located in a framework of integrity institutions and the 1986 exemplar of “people power” in the Philippines
Women’s Gender Role Identity and Hallyu Acceptance in Myanmar
Work as a government 'scientist: Professional status security during organisational change and downsizing
An increasingly complex and competitive funding environment has led many public research organisations to intervene in the organisation of scientists' work. Government scientists represent a major component of the public research workforce but little is known of how workers in this sector have fared amid institutional and organisational change. Government scientists have applied research objectives but must still meet the profession's requirement…
Preference Reversals in Willingness to Pay and Choice
A fundamental contribution of consumer behavior research is to help marketing scholars develop an understanding of how people think about and express their preferences. In this article we find that two commonly used preference elicitation procedures, willingness to pay (WTP) and choice, are consistently associated with different expressed preferences. Specifically, choices are associated with a relatively greater preference for hedonic goods, whi…
Embedding Australian Public Service management reforms: The Secretary could not make it so
Public sector leaders in the Australian Public Service (APS) can learn from the demise of programme evaluation introduced as part of managing for results reforms, as they implement the evaluation of agency performance outcomes under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act (2013) (PGPA). This paper demonstrates that public sector management reforms require more than top‐down initiation by agency heads and that implementation need…
John Michael O’Brien (21 December 1945–10 January 2023)
Retracted Article: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable
Failures to replicate evidence of new discoveries have forced scientists to ask whether this unreliability is due to suboptimal implementation of methods or whether presumptively optimal methods are not, in fact, optimal. This paper reports an investigation by four coordinated laboratories of the prospective replicability of 16 novel experimental findings using rigour-enhancing practices: confirmatory tests, large sample sizes, preregistration an…
Bundle Selection and Variety Seeking: The Importance of Combinatorics
When consumers select bundles of goods, they may construct those sequentially (e.g., building a bouquet one flower at a time) or make a single choice of a prepackaged bundle (e.g., selecting an already-complete bouquet). Previous research suggested that the sequential construction of bundles encourages variety seeking. The present research revisits this claim and offers a theoretical explanation rooted in combinatorics and norm communication. Whe…
The unintended consequences of the blended workforce in the Australian Public Service: Effects on middle manager well‐being
The adoption of a blended workforce model, comprising both ongoing and non‐ongoing employees, has become increasingly common in public sector organisations. Despite known challenges, including high turnover and knowledge gaps, its impact on middle managers’ well‐being remains understudied. The study addresses this by exploring how the blended workforce model affects middle manager well‐being within the Australian Public Service (APS). Using quali…
The Use and Usefulness of Attention Checks in Behavioral Research
Attention checks have been touted as a means of excluding inattentive and careless responses from survey data. As a result, numerous approaches have been proposed, but relatively little attention has been paid to which ones are most helpful. The present article demonstrates that this blind spot has obscured vast differences in attention check efficacy. An initial survey of consumer-behavior and decision-making researchers revealed six commonly us…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Business (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Public sector (4 works) · Public service (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)