Edmund C Stazyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 4385401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edmund C Stazyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edmund C |
| FAMILY NAME | Stazyk |
| SIGNATURE | STAZYK E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8269-8956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”
This commentary on the article “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings” considers the merits of the authors’ arguments and offers several recommendations for researchers interested in public values
Ambiguity, appraisal, and affect
Although public management scholars have examined the causes and consequences of goal ambiguity in public organizations, we know less about how goal perceptions intersect with emotional labour (EL) to shape attitudes in the public workplace. To address this gap, we draw from appraisal theory to examine the connection between goal perceptions and EL in U.S. government agencies. We then explore how these two concepts work in concert to shape one as…
Putting the international in Public Administration
Over the last 30 years significant efforts have been made to ensure that Public Administration: An International Quarterly lives up to its international title. In this review article, we highlight some of the key research articles that have been published by the journal which illustrate an international approach to the study of public administration. We show how the journal's historical inclusion of a diverse spectrum of philosophies, methodologi…
Birds of a feather
A substantial body of research underscores the importance of congruence between employee and organizational values. Yet, despite evidence that value congruence affects key individual and organizational outcomes, several gaping holes still exist in the research. We add to existing public management scholarship by: (1) examining whether and how value congruence affects an employee’s affective organizational commitment; and (2) responding to recent …
Advantages of feeling appreciated
In this article, we examine several situational factors that condition the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and organizational behaviours. Specifically, we examine how the receipt of gratitude and appreciation is associated with the complex relationships between PSM, work attitudes and turnover intent. We analyse the conditional indirect effects from PSM to turnover intent with a series of structural equation models using data…
Administrative Easing
Administrative burden is widely recognized as a barrier to program enrollment , denying legal entitlements to many potentially eligible individuals . Building on recent research in behavioral public administration , this article examines the effect of voluntary state reductions in administrative burden (administrative easing) on Medicaid enrollment rates using differential implementation of the Affordable Care Act . Using a novel data set that in…
More dissimilar than alike? Public values preferences across US minority and white managers
Interest in public values has grown considerably over the past two decades. Much of this attention reflects a growing awareness that public values hold considerable significance for citizens and public employees. Yet, despite the rapid expansion of research on public values, we still know little about the role of race in shaping and determining public employees’ values preferences. To begin remedying this gap, this article examines whether minori…
Ranking Public Policy and Administration Graduate Programs, 1995-2016
In 1995, U.S. News and World Report ( U.S. News) released its first ranking of public affairs master’s degree programs. The rankings have been conducted every 3 years since and have grown in importance to public policy and public administration programs. This study considers the history and background of ranking public policy and administration graduate programs, the rationale used by U.S. News, and the methodology used by U.S. News. This is foll…
Sustainability, Intergenerational Social Equity, and the Socially Responsible Organization
Drawing on perspectives from several academic traditions, we argue that sustainability is best understood as intergenerational social equity. When viewed thusly, it is possible to determine what socially responsible organizations look like in practice. After reviewing historic claims and evidence of sustainability, we turn to modern applications of institutionally based sustainability. We then describe sustainability in the framework of an interg…
Examining the Links between Senior Managers’ Engagement in Networked Environments and Goal and Role Ambiguity
Public management scholars consistently argue that public organizations must now deliver services in the context of networks that span multiple jurisdictions and sectors and that they are subjected to greater degrees of goal and role ambiguity as compared to private organizations. Yet, limited research examines the degree to which these phenomena are connected. We seek to develop a perspective that merges these two research traditions by assertin…
Taking the ‘High Road’
Although public administration scholars have long been interested in promoting administrative ethics, recent lapses in judgment by government employees make the study of ethics even more pressing. Yet, we know relatively little about how public values and publicly oriented motives influence the ethical obligations employees reference when confronting organizational problems. We employ Perry's (2000) process model of public service motivation to c…
Developing and Testing a New Goal Taxonomy
Scholars have long argued clear organizational goals enhance performance whereas ambiguous goals diminish it. Yet, such arguments often overlook the beneficial aspects of ambiguous goals. Therefore, this study proposes and tests a new goal taxonomy that examines the dynamic, mixed effects of goal ambiguity on employees in public organizations. The taxonomy proposed accounts for varying degrees of goal ambiguity and political support. It also cons…
Making Ends Meet
Students of public management often argue that imposing market‐based logic on public sector organizations can undermine the altruistic motives of public employees. Focusing on the complex relationships between ‘reinventing government’ reforms, bureaucratic red tape, and public service motivation ( PSM ), we contend that the effects of reinvention reforms on PSM change as a function of the ability of reforms to cut bureaucratic red tape. A series …
Understanding Affective Organizational Commitment
This study proposes and tests a model of affective organizational commitment that seeks to capture aspects of the unique institutional context of public organizations. An analysis of survey data from seven public sector organizations suggests external control increases organizational goal ambiguity and two types of bureaucratic red tape, which, in turn, negatively affects affective commitment. Although personnel red tape has a direct adverse impa…
The Benefits of Bureaucracy
Antecedents and Correlates of Public Service Motivation
Systematic research, especially empirical research, on public service motivation is of recent vintage and grows out of a recognition that the public sector motivational terrain differs from the private sector (Perry & Porter, 1982; Perry & Rainey, 1988). Early work recognized that these sector-based differences were related to both organizational and individual circumstances (Perry & Porter, 1982). Put another way, individual proclivities to deri…
Administrative Easing
Administrative burden is widely recognized as a barrier to program enrollment , denying legal entitlements to many potentially eligible individuals . Building on recent research in behavioral public administration , this article examines the effect of voluntary state reductions in administrative burden (administrative easing) on Medicaid enrollment rates using differential implementation of the Affordable Care Act . Using a novel data set that in…
The Benefits of Bureaucracy
Developing and Testing a New Goal Taxonomy
Scholars have long argued clear organizational goals enhance performance whereas ambiguous goals diminish it. Yet, such arguments often overlook the beneficial aspects of ambiguous goals. Therefore, this study proposes and tests a new goal taxonomy that examines the dynamic, mixed effects of goal ambiguity on employees in public organizations. The taxonomy proposed accounts for varying degrees of goal ambiguity and political support. It also cons…
Taking the ‘High Road’
Although public administration scholars have long been interested in promoting administrative ethics, recent lapses in judgment by government employees make the study of ethics even more pressing. Yet, we know relatively little about how public values and publicly oriented motives influence the ethical obligations employees reference when confronting organizational problems. We employ Perry's (2000) process model of public service motivation to c…
Understanding Affective Organizational Commitment
This study proposes and tests a model of affective organizational commitment that seeks to capture aspects of the unique institutional context of public organizations. An analysis of survey data from seven public sector organizations suggests external control increases organizational goal ambiguity and two types of bureaucratic red tape, which, in turn, negatively affects affective commitment. Although personnel red tape has a direct adverse impa…
Examining the Links between Senior Managers’ Engagement in Networked Environments and Goal and Role Ambiguity
Public management scholars consistently argue that public organizations must now deliver services in the context of networks that span multiple jurisdictions and sectors and that they are subjected to greater degrees of goal and role ambiguity as compared to private organizations. Yet, limited research examines the degree to which these phenomena are connected. We seek to develop a perspective that merges these two research traditions by assertin…
Making Ends Meet
Students of public management often argue that imposing market‐based logic on public sector organizations can undermine the altruistic motives of public employees. Focusing on the complex relationships between ‘reinventing government’ reforms, bureaucratic red tape, and public service motivation ( PSM ), we contend that the effects of reinvention reforms on PSM change as a function of the ability of reforms to cut bureaucratic red tape. A series …
More dissimilar than alike? Public values preferences across US minority and white managers
Interest in public values has grown considerably over the past two decades. Much of this attention reflects a growing awareness that public values hold considerable significance for citizens and public employees. Yet, despite the rapid expansion of research on public values, we still know little about the role of race in shaping and determining public employees’ values preferences. To begin remedying this gap, this article examines whether minori…
Sustainability, Intergenerational Social Equity, and the Socially Responsible Organization
Drawing on perspectives from several academic traditions, we argue that sustainability is best understood as intergenerational social equity. When viewed thusly, it is possible to determine what socially responsible organizations look like in practice. After reviewing historic claims and evidence of sustainability, we turn to modern applications of institutionally based sustainability. We then describe sustainability in the framework of an interg…
Advantages of feeling appreciated
In this article, we examine several situational factors that condition the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and organizational behaviours. Specifically, we examine how the receipt of gratitude and appreciation is associated with the complex relationships between PSM, work attitudes and turnover intent. We analyse the conditional indirect effects from PSM to turnover intent with a series of structural equation models using data…
Birds of a feather
A substantial body of research underscores the importance of congruence between employee and organizational values. Yet, despite evidence that value congruence affects key individual and organizational outcomes, several gaping holes still exist in the research. We add to existing public management scholarship by: (1) examining whether and how value congruence affects an employee’s affective organizational commitment; and (2) responding to recent …
Antecedents and Correlates of Public Service Motivation
Systematic research, especially empirical research, on public service motivation is of recent vintage and grows out of a recognition that the public sector motivational terrain differs from the private sector (Perry & Porter, 1982; Perry & Rainey, 1988). Early work recognized that these sector-based differences were related to both organizational and individual circumstances (Perry & Porter, 1982). Put another way, individual proclivities to deri…
Understanding Affective Organizational Commitment
This study proposes and tests a model of affective organizational commitment that seeks to capture aspects of the unique institutional context of public organizations. An analysis of survey data from seven public sector organizations suggests external control increases organizational goal ambiguity and two types of bureaucratic red tape, which, in turn, negatively affects affective commitment. Although personnel red tape has a direct adverse impa…
The Benefits of Bureaucracy
Making Ends Meet
Students of public management often argue that imposing market‐based logic on public sector organizations can undermine the altruistic motives of public employees. Focusing on the complex relationships between ‘reinventing government’ reforms, bureaucratic red tape, and public service motivation ( PSM ), we contend that the effects of reinvention reforms on PSM change as a function of the ability of reforms to cut bureaucratic red tape. A series …
Taking the ‘High Road’
Although public administration scholars have long been interested in promoting administrative ethics, recent lapses in judgment by government employees make the study of ethics even more pressing. Yet, we know relatively little about how public values and publicly oriented motives influence the ethical obligations employees reference when confronting organizational problems. We employ Perry's (2000) process model of public service motivation to c…
Developing and Testing a New Goal Taxonomy
Scholars have long argued clear organizational goals enhance performance whereas ambiguous goals diminish it. Yet, such arguments often overlook the beneficial aspects of ambiguous goals. Therefore, this study proposes and tests a new goal taxonomy that examines the dynamic, mixed effects of goal ambiguity on employees in public organizations. The taxonomy proposed accounts for varying degrees of goal ambiguity and political support. It also cons…
Ranking Public Policy and Administration Graduate Programs, 1995-2016
In 1995, U.S. News and World Report ( U.S. News) released its first ranking of public affairs master’s degree programs. The rankings have been conducted every 3 years since and have grown in importance to public policy and public administration programs. This study considers the history and background of ranking public policy and administration graduate programs, the rationale used by U.S. News, and the methodology used by U.S. News. This is foll…
Sustainability, Intergenerational Social Equity, and the Socially Responsible Organization
Drawing on perspectives from several academic traditions, we argue that sustainability is best understood as intergenerational social equity. When viewed thusly, it is possible to determine what socially responsible organizations look like in practice. After reviewing historic claims and evidence of sustainability, we turn to modern applications of institutionally based sustainability. We then describe sustainability in the framework of an interg…
Examining the Links between Senior Managers’ Engagement in Networked Environments and Goal and Role Ambiguity
Public management scholars consistently argue that public organizations must now deliver services in the context of networks that span multiple jurisdictions and sectors and that they are subjected to greater degrees of goal and role ambiguity as compared to private organizations. Yet, limited research examines the degree to which these phenomena are connected. We seek to develop a perspective that merges these two research traditions by assertin…
More dissimilar than alike? Public values preferences across US minority and white managers
Interest in public values has grown considerably over the past two decades. Much of this attention reflects a growing awareness that public values hold considerable significance for citizens and public employees. Yet, despite the rapid expansion of research on public values, we still know little about the role of race in shaping and determining public employees’ values preferences. To begin remedying this gap, this article examines whether minori…
Administrative Easing
Administrative burden is widely recognized as a barrier to program enrollment , denying legal entitlements to many potentially eligible individuals . Building on recent research in behavioral public administration , this article examines the effect of voluntary state reductions in administrative burden (administrative easing) on Medicaid enrollment rates using differential implementation of the Affordable Care Act . Using a novel data set that in…
Advantages of feeling appreciated
In this article, we examine several situational factors that condition the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and organizational behaviours. Specifically, we examine how the receipt of gratitude and appreciation is associated with the complex relationships between PSM, work attitudes and turnover intent. We analyse the conditional indirect effects from PSM to turnover intent with a series of structural equation models using data…
Birds of a feather
A substantial body of research underscores the importance of congruence between employee and organizational values. Yet, despite evidence that value congruence affects key individual and organizational outcomes, several gaping holes still exist in the research. We add to existing public management scholarship by: (1) examining whether and how value congruence affects an employee’s affective organizational commitment; and (2) responding to recent …
Ambiguity, appraisal, and affect
Although public management scholars have examined the causes and consequences of goal ambiguity in public organizations, we know less about how goal perceptions intersect with emotional labour (EL) to shape attitudes in the public workplace. To address this gap, we draw from appraisal theory to examine the connection between goal perceptions and EL in U.S. government agencies. We then explore how these two concepts work in concert to shape one as…
Putting the international in Public Administration
Over the last 30 years significant efforts have been made to ensure that Public Administration: An International Quarterly lives up to its international title. In this review article, we highlight some of the key research articles that have been published by the journal which illustrate an international approach to the study of public administration. We show how the journal's historical inclusion of a diverse spectrum of philosophies, methodologi…
A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings”
This commentary on the article “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings” considers the merits of the authors’ arguments and offers several recommendations for researchers interested in public values
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