Willow S Jacobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4401222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willow S Jacobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willow S |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobson |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSON W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3802-2307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Performance management in collaborations: Exploring associations between distributed leadership and collective performance data use
Municipal performance management during the covid pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic brought a major shift in governmental operations, including decision-making processes. In the midst of an unprecedented crisis, public managers had to make rapid decisions within an uncertain landscape and ambiguous timeline. This exploratory study aims to understand how the pandemic impacted public managers’ behavior as they attempted to better cope with the crisis. In particular, we focus on the impact of the pandemic on p…
How Public Service Leadership Is Studied: An Examination of a Quarter Century of Scholarship
This exploratory study surveys the public service leadership literature from a selection of leading public administration journals over a 25‐year period (1987–2012). Patterns in methods used to study public leadership are explored, along with how those methods vary across settings within the public service sector and the treatment of leadership in the analysis. While the number of empirical studies of public service leadership has grown, the dive…
Human Resource Practices in State Government: Findings from a National Survey
What are states doing with respect to human resource practices to improve government operations? Using data collected by the Government Performance Project, this article identifies emerging trends and innovations in state personnel systems. Specifically, it provides a national comparison in the areas of personnel authority, workforce planning, selection, classification, and performance management. Results show that many states are delegating auth…
State Strategic Planning: Suggestions from the Oregon Experience
Strategic is, very simply, method for aligning an organization with its environment, according to Meising and Andersen (1991). It is management tool that has been used in the private sector for years as systematic process for relating the organization to changes in the environment. Strategic processes typically involve assessing strengths and weaknesses, identifying opportunities and threats, determining where the organization should be going, an…
Human Resource Practices in State Government: Findings from a National Survey
What are states doing with respect to human resource practices to improve government operations? Using data collected by the Government Performance Project, this article identifies emerging trends and innovations in state personnel systems. Specifically, it provides a national comparison in the areas of personnel authority, workforce planning, selection, classification, and performance management. Results show that many states are delegating auth…
How Public Service Leadership Is Studied: An Examination of a Quarter Century of Scholarship
This exploratory study surveys the public service leadership literature from a selection of leading public administration journals over a 25‐year period (1987–2012). Patterns in methods used to study public leadership are explored, along with how those methods vary across settings within the public service sector and the treatment of leadership in the analysis. While the number of empirical studies of public service leadership has grown, the dive…
State Strategic Planning: Suggestions from the Oregon Experience
Strategic is, very simply, method for aligning an organization with its environment, according to Meising and Andersen (1991). It is management tool that has been used in the private sector for years as systematic process for relating the organization to changes in the environment. Strategic processes typically involve assessing strengths and weaknesses, identifying opportunities and threats, determining where the organization should be going, an…
State Strategic Planning: Suggestions from the Oregon Experience
Strategic is, very simply, method for aligning an organization with its environment, according to Meising and Andersen (1991). It is management tool that has been used in the private sector for years as systematic process for relating the organization to changes in the environment. Strategic processes typically involve assessing strengths and weaknesses, identifying opportunities and threats, determining where the organization should be going, an…
Human Resource Practices in State Government: Findings from a National Survey
What are states doing with respect to human resource practices to improve government operations? Using data collected by the Government Performance Project, this article identifies emerging trends and innovations in state personnel systems. Specifically, it provides a national comparison in the areas of personnel authority, workforce planning, selection, classification, and performance management. Results show that many states are delegating auth…
How Public Service Leadership Is Studied: An Examination of a Quarter Century of Scholarship
This exploratory study surveys the public service leadership literature from a selection of leading public administration journals over a 25‐year period (1987–2012). Patterns in methods used to study public leadership are explored, along with how those methods vary across settings within the public service sector and the treatment of leadership in the analysis. While the number of empirical studies of public service leadership has grown, the dive…
Municipal performance management during the covid pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic brought a major shift in governmental operations, including decision-making processes. In the midst of an unprecedented crisis, public managers had to make rapid decisions within an uncertain landscape and ambiguous timeline. This exploratory study aims to understand how the pandemic impacted public managers’ behavior as they attempted to better cope with the crisis. In particular, we focus on the impact of the pandemic on p…
Performance management in collaborations: Exploring associations between distributed leadership and collective performance data use
Business (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Exploratory research (2 works)