Shahidul Hassan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahidul Hassan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahidul |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassan |
| SIGNATURE | HASSAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8820-5822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Personality traits and the endorsement of competing leadership roles
To be effective, public-sector managers often need to perform competing leadership roles. Yet little is known about how individual differences shape their endorsement of these roles. Drawing on the Competing Values Framework, we examine the influence of Big Five personality traits on leadership role endorsement among Danish military officer cadets, an important but understudied segment of the public-sector workforce. Relying on 1,022 responses fr…
Anticipated Stigma and Burnout
The “racist cop” stereotype is one of the most prominent social representations of law enforcement in the United States. Drawing on theories of stereotype threat and stigma, this article suggests that this negative stereotype creates an identity threat that heightens anxiety and stress among law enforcement officers, increasing the risks of their burnout. Using survey data collected from officers in a state‐level law enforcement agency in 2021, w…
The Columbus model
From Presence to Policy
While public administration research has begun exploring the impact of women's representation in top leadership positions in public organizations, the conditions under which women's representation in top management teams (TMTs) produces policies specifically benefiting women remain underexamined. Using a panel dataset covering 276 Chinese municipalities (2010–2018), this study examines how women's representation in mayoral teams affects women‐sen…
Does workplace inclusion mitigate emotional exhaustion? Evidence from local government organizations
Over the past few years, many local government organizations have become more concerned with employee burnout and identifying strategies to support employees. In this paper we examine inclusion as a resource that can shape emotional exhaustion and buffer against two demands, workplace incivility and COVID-19 job-related changes. With survey data collected from three local governments, we find that inclusion is associated with reduced feelings of …
Motivation, Meaning, and Burnout
Understanding how public organizations can lower employee burnout is important because burnout negatively affects both employee well‐being and service effectiveness. This study explores whether public service motivation (PSM) can help alleviate burnout among frontline public sector workers, who frequently encounter high job demands and conflicting roles that heighten burnout risks. Analyzing two‐wave matched survey data from police officers colle…
Workplace Incivility and Its Impact on Public Employees’ Job Search Behavior
While extensive research documents that workplace incivility has negative consequences for both employees and organizations, there has been limited research on how workplace incivility experiences affect public-sector employees. This study examines the associations between workplace incivility experiences and public employee job satisfaction and job search behavior. Relying on the Conservation of Resources theory, this article develops a research…
Support for Democratic Policing Among Frontline Police Officers
Motivated by emerging research that connects officer psychological orientations to policing outcomes, we examine how Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), i.e. preference for group-based social hierarchy, is related to officer attitudes toward democratic policing practices. Analysing survey data collected from officers in a state-level police organization in the United States, we find that high SDO officers are more willing to use force and less wi…
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement
While many public organizations have made notable strides to improve the representation of women at all ranks, women remain severely underrepresented in law enforcement organizations. Research shows that a critical barrier to women’s integration into law enforcement is the common perception among policemen that women are unsuited for police work. This study draws on Social Dominance Theory (SDT) to illuminate the values and beliefs underlying pol…
When do women receive managerial support? The effects of gender congruence and the manager-employee relationship
This article examines the impact of manager-employee gender similarity on supportive leadership behaviours by public managers. Following prior research, we hypothesize that women with female managers are likely to report more leadership support than women with male managers and that this relationship will be moderated by the quality of the manager-employee relationship. Analysing multi-source survey data collected from a state agency, we find sup…
Conflict and cooperation within police units
Multisource survey data were collected from 105 police managers and 534 of their subordinates to assess the influence of manager inclusiveness on unit-level relational conflict and interpersonal helping behaviour. The analysis shows a negative relationship between relational conflict and helping behaviour and between manager inclusiveness and relational conflict. We also observe the negative link between manager inclusiveness and relational confl…
The interactive influence of public service motivation, perceived reward equity, and prosocial impact on employee engagement
We examine independent and joint influences of public service motivation (PSM), job prosocial impact, and job reward equity on public employee engagement. Using panel data collected from 56 public managers in Pakistan, we find that managers with high levels of PSM feel more engaged when they experience high reward equity but low job prosocial impact or when they experience high job prosocial impact but low reward equity. Managers with low to mode…
Should Managers Provide General or Specific Ethical Guidelines to Employees
Gender and Prosecutorial Discretion
This article contributes to our understanding of the role of gender in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. We use administrative data from a prosecutor’s office in a large urban county to estimate the direct and interactive effects of defendant and prosecutor gender on accepting initial charges brought by law enforcement officials. After implementing coarsened exact matching, Probit regression results suggest that prosecutors, on average, a…
The need for ethical leadership in combating corruption
In this article, we empirically assess the role of ethical leadership in reducing corruption. We also examine whether the effectiveness of ethical leadership in curbing corruption depends on the quality of the reward system in public organizations. We focus on two related components of the reward system: the use of performance-based rewards and procedural fairness. Using data collected through a survey of 741 employees in 154 government and non-p…
How procedural experiences shape citizens' perceptions of and orientations toward legal institutions
Integrating theories and research on procedural justice and policy design, this article provides insight about how institutional context and experiences shape citizens' perceptions about procedural fairness and trust and confidence in legal institutions. We address this question with data collected through a household survey in Bangladesh. The analysis shows that citizens' experiences with legal institutions vary across four separate justice venu…
The Behavioral Public Administration Movement
Proponents of the behavioral public administration movement call for greater use of theories from psychology and experimental research designs to improve the rigor of public administration research. We agree that the use of such theories and methods will provide much‐needed reinforcements to public administration research, but the approach taken so far might be too narrow and might unnecessarily alienate scholars using other perspectives and rese…
We Need More Research on Unethical Leadership Behavior in Public Organizations
There is a growing interest among Public Administration (PA) scholars in empirically assessing the impact of ethical leadership in public organizations. Recent studies have found that ethical leade
How empowering leadership reduces employee silence in public organizations
The intentional withholding of critical work‐related information can have serious negative consequences in public organizations. Yet, few studies have examined why public employees intentionally remain silent about problems and how to prevent such behaviour. This article provides insights into how managers may lower employee silence in government organizations. We develop a model that suggests that empowering leadership by frontline supervisors r…
Taking a Closer Look at the Empowerment‐Performance Relationship
This article examines the influence of empowering leadership practices on police officers' job performance, perceptions of managerial effectiveness, and unit performance. These relationships are examined using multisource survey data collected from 100 law enforcement managers, 446 of their subordinates, and 98 of their direct supervisors. The analysis shows that empowering leadership contributes positively to subordinate officers' job performanc…
Does the Influence of Empowering Leadership Trickle Down? Evidence From Law Enforcement Organizations
The purpose of this article is to elucidate mechanisms through which the effects of empowering leadership practices may trickle down across management levels in public organizations. In this effort, we assess whether public managers emulate the behavior of their supervisors when they engage in empowering leadership to influence the behavior of their direct reports. We also examine whether the subordinates of such managers are more likely to exerc…
Does a Public Service Ethic Encourage Ethical Behaviour? Public Service Motivation, Ethical Leadership and the Willingness to Report Ethical Problems
This article aims to advance our understanding of and confidence in the relationship between employee public service motivation ( PSM ) and ethical behaviour by testing the degree to which PSM predicts the ethical behaviour or behavioural intention of government employees. Building on previous research, we argue that government employees with higher PSM are not only more likely to internalize values that support public interests, they also are li…
Leadership and Performance of Public Employees
Few studies in public management have assessed whether managerial leadership has any influence on job performance of public employees. This study employs a well-established theory of leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, to consider the effects of the manager-employee relationship on ratings of employee in-role and extra-role performance. It also investigates how differences in gender between the manager and employee and duration of th…
The Importance of Ethical Leadership and Personal Control in Promoting Improvement-Centered Voice among Government Employees
The purpose of this article is to provide insight about the conditions in which government employees are more likely to engage in voice to improve performance of their organization. In this effort, the current research examines the direct and interactive effects of ethical leadership and perceptions of personal control on improvement-centered voice among government employees. These relationships are examined with data that were collected through …
Does Ethical Leadership Matter in Government? Effects on Organizational Commitment, Absenteeism, and Willingness to Report Ethical Problems
Recent ethical scandals involving managers in government organizations have highlighted the need for more research on ethical leadership in public sector organizations. To assess the consequences of ethical leadership, 161 managers in a large state government agency and 415 of their direct reports were surveyed, and personnel records were obtained to measure absenteeism. Results indicate that after controlling for the effects of employee characte…
Does a Public Service Ethic Encourage Ethical Behaviour? Public Service Motivation, Ethical Leadership and the Willingness to Report Ethical Problems
This article aims to advance our understanding of and confidence in the relationship between employee public service motivation ( PSM ) and ethical behaviour by testing the degree to which PSM predicts the ethical behaviour or behavioural intention of government employees. Building on previous research, we argue that government employees with higher PSM are not only more likely to internalize values that support public interests, they also are li…
The Importance of Ethical Leadership and Personal Control in Promoting Improvement-Centered Voice among Government Employees
The purpose of this article is to provide insight about the conditions in which government employees are more likely to engage in voice to improve performance of their organization. In this effort, the current research examines the direct and interactive effects of ethical leadership and perceptions of personal control on improvement-centered voice among government employees. These relationships are examined with data that were collected through …
An Improved Measure of Ethical Leadership
The appropriate way to define and measure ethical leadership has been a source of conceptual confusion in the leadership literature. Different measures have been developed, but they all have limitations. Some questionnaires are missing key indicators of ethical leadership, or they include behaviors that do not seem directly relevant. In this study, the authors assess the validity of a new questionnaire for measuring essential aspects of ethical l…
Leadership and Performance of Public Employees
Few studies in public management have assessed whether managerial leadership has any influence on job performance of public employees. This study employs a well-established theory of leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, to consider the effects of the manager-employee relationship on ratings of employee in-role and extra-role performance. It also investigates how differences in gender between the manager and employee and duration of th…
Gender and Prosecutorial Discretion
This article contributes to our understanding of the role of gender in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. We use administrative data from a prosecutor’s office in a large urban county to estimate the direct and interactive effects of defendant and prosecutor gender on accepting initial charges brought by law enforcement officials. After implementing coarsened exact matching, Probit regression results suggest that prosecutors, on average, a…
Does the Influence of Empowering Leadership Trickle Down? Evidence From Law Enforcement Organizations
The purpose of this article is to elucidate mechanisms through which the effects of empowering leadership practices may trickle down across management levels in public organizations. In this effort, we assess whether public managers emulate the behavior of their supervisors when they engage in empowering leadership to influence the behavior of their direct reports. We also examine whether the subordinates of such managers are more likely to exerc…
We Need More Research on Unethical Leadership Behavior in Public Organizations
There is a growing interest among Public Administration (PA) scholars in empirically assessing the impact of ethical leadership in public organizations. Recent studies have found that ethical leade
Does Fair Treatment in the Workplace Matter? An Assessment of Organizational Fairness and Employee Outcomes in Government
The purpose of the current study was to investigate how perceptions of organizational fairness may facilitate positive outcomes and prevent negative consequences in government organizations. In that effort, this study examined relationship between perceived organizational fairness and organizational identification, job involvement and turnover intention with data collected through an organizational survey from 764 professional employees working i…
How empowering leadership reduces employee silence in public organizations
The intentional withholding of critical work‐related information can have serious negative consequences in public organizations. Yet, few studies have examined why public employees intentionally remain silent about problems and how to prevent such behaviour. This article provides insights into how managers may lower employee silence in government organizations. We develop a model that suggests that empowering leadership by frontline supervisors r…
The need for ethical leadership in combating corruption
In this article, we empirically assess the role of ethical leadership in reducing corruption. We also examine whether the effectiveness of ethical leadership in curbing corruption depends on the quality of the reward system in public organizations. We focus on two related components of the reward system: the use of performance-based rewards and procedural fairness. Using data collected through a survey of 741 employees in 154 government and non-p…
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement
While many public organizations have made notable strides to improve the representation of women at all ranks, women remain severely underrepresented in law enforcement organizations. Research shows that a critical barrier to women’s integration into law enforcement is the common perception among policemen that women are unsuited for police work. This study draws on Social Dominance Theory (SDT) to illuminate the values and beliefs underlying pol…
From Presence to Policy
While public administration research has begun exploring the impact of women's representation in top leadership positions in public organizations, the conditions under which women's representation in top management teams (TMTs) produces policies specifically benefiting women remain underexamined. Using a panel dataset covering 276 Chinese municipalities (2010–2018), this study examines how women's representation in mayoral teams affects women‐sen…
Does workplace inclusion mitigate emotional exhaustion? Evidence from local government organizations
Over the past few years, many local government organizations have become more concerned with employee burnout and identifying strategies to support employees. In this paper we examine inclusion as a resource that can shape emotional exhaustion and buffer against two demands, workplace incivility and COVID-19 job-related changes. With survey data collected from three local governments, we find that inclusion is associated with reduced feelings of …
Support for Democratic Policing Among Frontline Police Officers
Motivated by emerging research that connects officer psychological orientations to policing outcomes, we examine how Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), i.e. preference for group-based social hierarchy, is related to officer attitudes toward democratic policing practices. Analysing survey data collected from officers in a state-level police organization in the United States, we find that high SDO officers are more willing to use force and less wi…
An Improved Measure of Ethical Leadership
The appropriate way to define and measure ethical leadership has been a source of conceptual confusion in the leadership literature. Different measures have been developed, but they all have limitations. Some questionnaires are missing key indicators of ethical leadership, or they include behaviors that do not seem directly relevant. In this study, the authors assess the validity of a new questionnaire for measuring essential aspects of ethical l…
Does Fair Treatment in the Workplace Matter? An Assessment of Organizational Fairness and Employee Outcomes in Government
The purpose of the current study was to investigate how perceptions of organizational fairness may facilitate positive outcomes and prevent negative consequences in government organizations. In that effort, this study examined relationship between perceived organizational fairness and organizational identification, job involvement and turnover intention with data collected through an organizational survey from 764 professional employees working i…
The Importance of Role Clarification in Workgroups
This article examines how greater role clarification may be associated with increased work satisfaction and decreased turnover rates in workgroups. These linkages are examined with the use of multivariate analysis of variance and hierarchical regression analysis for data collected during two time periods from multiple sources: personnel records and an organizational survey of 1,699 employees working in 45 geographically distributed offices in a s…
Does Ethical Leadership Matter in Government? Effects on Organizational Commitment, Absenteeism, and Willingness to Report Ethical Problems
Recent ethical scandals involving managers in government organizations have highlighted the need for more research on ethical leadership in public sector organizations. To assess the consequences of ethical leadership, 161 managers in a large state government agency and 415 of their direct reports were surveyed, and personnel records were obtained to measure absenteeism. Results indicate that after controlling for the effects of employee characte…
Leadership and Performance of Public Employees
Few studies in public management have assessed whether managerial leadership has any influence on job performance of public employees. This study employs a well-established theory of leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, to consider the effects of the manager-employee relationship on ratings of employee in-role and extra-role performance. It also investigates how differences in gender between the manager and employee and duration of th…
The Importance of Ethical Leadership and Personal Control in Promoting Improvement-Centered Voice among Government Employees
The purpose of this article is to provide insight about the conditions in which government employees are more likely to engage in voice to improve performance of their organization. In this effort, the current research examines the direct and interactive effects of ethical leadership and perceptions of personal control on improvement-centered voice among government employees. These relationships are examined with data that were collected through …
Does a Public Service Ethic Encourage Ethical Behaviour? Public Service Motivation, Ethical Leadership and the Willingness to Report Ethical Problems
This article aims to advance our understanding of and confidence in the relationship between employee public service motivation ( PSM ) and ethical behaviour by testing the degree to which PSM predicts the ethical behaviour or behavioural intention of government employees. Building on previous research, we argue that government employees with higher PSM are not only more likely to internalize values that support public interests, they also are li…
How empowering leadership reduces employee silence in public organizations
The intentional withholding of critical work‐related information can have serious negative consequences in public organizations. Yet, few studies have examined why public employees intentionally remain silent about problems and how to prevent such behaviour. This article provides insights into how managers may lower employee silence in government organizations. We develop a model that suggests that empowering leadership by frontline supervisors r…
Taking a Closer Look at the Empowerment‐Performance Relationship
This article examines the influence of empowering leadership practices on police officers' job performance, perceptions of managerial effectiveness, and unit performance. These relationships are examined using multisource survey data collected from 100 law enforcement managers, 446 of their subordinates, and 98 of their direct supervisors. The analysis shows that empowering leadership contributes positively to subordinate officers' job performanc…
Does the Influence of Empowering Leadership Trickle Down? Evidence From Law Enforcement Organizations
The purpose of this article is to elucidate mechanisms through which the effects of empowering leadership practices may trickle down across management levels in public organizations. In this effort, we assess whether public managers emulate the behavior of their supervisors when they engage in empowering leadership to influence the behavior of their direct reports. We also examine whether the subordinates of such managers are more likely to exerc…
The Behavioral Public Administration Movement
Proponents of the behavioral public administration movement call for greater use of theories from psychology and experimental research designs to improve the rigor of public administration research. We agree that the use of such theories and methods will provide much‐needed reinforcements to public administration research, but the approach taken so far might be too narrow and might unnecessarily alienate scholars using other perspectives and rese…
We Need More Research on Unethical Leadership Behavior in Public Organizations
There is a growing interest among Public Administration (PA) scholars in empirically assessing the impact of ethical leadership in public organizations. Recent studies have found that ethical leade
The need for ethical leadership in combating corruption
In this article, we empirically assess the role of ethical leadership in reducing corruption. We also examine whether the effectiveness of ethical leadership in curbing corruption depends on the quality of the reward system in public organizations. We focus on two related components of the reward system: the use of performance-based rewards and procedural fairness. Using data collected through a survey of 741 employees in 154 government and non-p…
How procedural experiences shape citizens' perceptions of and orientations toward legal institutions
Integrating theories and research on procedural justice and policy design, this article provides insight about how institutional context and experiences shape citizens' perceptions about procedural fairness and trust and confidence in legal institutions. We address this question with data collected through a household survey in Bangladesh. The analysis shows that citizens' experiences with legal institutions vary across four separate justice venu…
Should Managers Provide General or Specific Ethical Guidelines to Employees
Gender and Prosecutorial Discretion
This article contributes to our understanding of the role of gender in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. We use administrative data from a prosecutor’s office in a large urban county to estimate the direct and interactive effects of defendant and prosecutor gender on accepting initial charges brought by law enforcement officials. After implementing coarsened exact matching, Probit regression results suggest that prosecutors, on average, a…
When do women receive managerial support? The effects of gender congruence and the manager-employee relationship
This article examines the impact of manager-employee gender similarity on supportive leadership behaviours by public managers. Following prior research, we hypothesize that women with female managers are likely to report more leadership support than women with male managers and that this relationship will be moderated by the quality of the manager-employee relationship. Analysing multi-source survey data collected from a state agency, we find sup…
Conflict and cooperation within police units
Multisource survey data were collected from 105 police managers and 534 of their subordinates to assess the influence of manager inclusiveness on unit-level relational conflict and interpersonal helping behaviour. The analysis shows a negative relationship between relational conflict and helping behaviour and between manager inclusiveness and relational conflict. We also observe the negative link between manager inclusiveness and relational confl…
The interactive influence of public service motivation, perceived reward equity, and prosocial impact on employee engagement
We examine independent and joint influences of public service motivation (PSM), job prosocial impact, and job reward equity on public employee engagement. Using panel data collected from 56 public managers in Pakistan, we find that managers with high levels of PSM feel more engaged when they experience high reward equity but low job prosocial impact or when they experience high job prosocial impact but low reward equity. Managers with low to mode…
Workplace Incivility and Its Impact on Public Employees’ Job Search Behavior
While extensive research documents that workplace incivility has negative consequences for both employees and organizations, there has been limited research on how workplace incivility experiences affect public-sector employees. This study examines the associations between workplace incivility experiences and public employee job satisfaction and job search behavior. Relying on the Conservation of Resources theory, this article develops a research…
Support for Democratic Policing Among Frontline Police Officers
Motivated by emerging research that connects officer psychological orientations to policing outcomes, we examine how Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), i.e. preference for group-based social hierarchy, is related to officer attitudes toward democratic policing practices. Analysing survey data collected from officers in a state-level police organization in the United States, we find that high SDO officers are more willing to use force and less wi…
Preference for group-based social hierarchy and the reluctance to accept women as equals in law enforcement
While many public organizations have made notable strides to improve the representation of women at all ranks, women remain severely underrepresented in law enforcement organizations. Research shows that a critical barrier to women’s integration into law enforcement is the common perception among policemen that women are unsuited for police work. This study draws on Social Dominance Theory (SDT) to illuminate the values and beliefs underlying pol…
The Columbus model
From Presence to Policy
While public administration research has begun exploring the impact of women's representation in top leadership positions in public organizations, the conditions under which women's representation in top management teams (TMTs) produces policies specifically benefiting women remain underexamined. Using a panel dataset covering 276 Chinese municipalities (2010–2018), this study examines how women's representation in mayoral teams affects women‐sen…
Does workplace inclusion mitigate emotional exhaustion? Evidence from local government organizations
Over the past few years, many local government organizations have become more concerned with employee burnout and identifying strategies to support employees. In this paper we examine inclusion as a resource that can shape emotional exhaustion and buffer against two demands, workplace incivility and COVID-19 job-related changes. With survey data collected from three local governments, we find that inclusion is associated with reduced feelings of …
Political science (23 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Public relations (20 works) · Business (18 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works)