Gene A Brewer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4384854 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gene A Brewer |
| PRENOMES | Gene A |
| SOBRENOME | Brewer |
| ASSINATURA | BREWER G A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9956-1024 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1185 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Existing and preferred organizational culture in Algerian power plants
Introduction: Understanding organizational culture has become crucial for effective human resource management in organizations, and essential for developing more successful change strategies. Building on an earlier research project, this study aims to compare the existing and preferred organizational culture types from Harrison and Stokes perspective to measure the impact of power, role, and support cultures on managers' aspirations to work withi…
The impact of internal administrative communication on knowledge sharing between employees and supervisors in public organizations
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of internal administrative communication on knowledge sharing behaviour between subordinates and supervisors at Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahia University, Algeria, which is a publicly owned and operated entity. The researchers utilized a quantitative research method and collected data from 135 employees representing various departments of the university. The researchers employed Penley and Hawkins fram…
Individual differences in state and trait mind-wandering influence episodic memory encoding and retrieval dynamics
Task sequencing does not systematically affect the factor structure of cognitive abilities
Street-Level bureaucracy in public administration
Research on street-level bureaucracy has burgeoned since Michael Lipsky published his seminal book on the topic in 1980. Yet little effort has been made to comprehensively overview this stream of research. This study undertakes a systematic literature review on street-level bureaucracy in the field of public administration. Our analysis confirms that street-level bureaucracy is a centrally important and ever-popular topic in public administration…
An assessment of learning rates in habitual prospective memory
Individual differences in memory and attention processes in prospective remembering
Individual differences in working memory capacity predict benefits to memory from intention offloading
Research suggests that individuals with lower working memory have difficulty remembering to fulfil delayed intentions. The current study examined whether the ability to offload intentions onto the environment mitigated these deficits. Participants (N = 268) completed three versions of a delayed intention task with and without the use of reminders, along with three measures of working memory capacity. Results showed that individuals with higher wo…
The effect of binaural beat stimulation on sustained attention
Discrepant findings on the relation between episodic memory and retrieval practice
From theory to practice
This study examines the performance measurement of four different values (efficiency, service quality, customer service satisfaction, and social equity). This study also distinguishes between the values emphasized at the three stages of the policy process model: process, output, and outcome. The prevalence of each value is compared across time and at various stages of the policy process at the agency level. By tracking trends of values in perform…
Best Practice Recommendations for Replicating Experiments in Public Administration
Replication is an important mechanism through which broad lessons for theory and practice can be drawn in the applied interdisciplinary social science field of public administration. We suggest a common replication framework for public administration that is illustrated by experimental work in the field. Drawing on knowledge from other disciplines, together with our experience in replicating several experiments on topics such as decision making, …
Aiding the search
Public Service Motivation
Over the past two decades, research on public service motivation has seen rapid growth. Despite the relatively large number of publications to date, no systematic research overview has been created, leaving the body of literature somewhat unstructured and possibly hampering future research. This article fills this void by providing a systematic literature review of 323 publications that examines six key aspects of the literature on public service…
Red Tape
Red tape studies typically focus on burdensome rules that have negative effects on organizations, as perceived by managers. The one‐item general red tape scale is representative of this approach. However, scholars have called for improved measures that address the scale's shortcomings. This article introduces a new measurement scale that features (1) red tape as a two‐dimensional construct that includes compliance burden and lack of functionality…
Costly Signaling Increases Trust, Even Across Religious Affiliations
Trust is a critical aspect of social interaction. One might predict that individuals trust religious out-groups less than religious in-groups, and that costly signals performed by members of religious in-groups increase trust while costly signals performed by members of religious out-groups decrease trust. We examined how Christian participants perceived the trustworthiness of Muslim and Christian individuals who did or did not engage in religiou…
Investigating the subjective reports of rejection processes in the word frequency mirror effect
No effects of executive control depletion on prospective memory retrieval processes
Past, Present, and Future of Public Service Motivation Research
This article reviews the evolution of almost 25 years of public service motivation research in order to identify what is necessary to raise future research to a higher level. First, we look at the rise in public service motivation research and try to provide an explanation for the increasing number of publications. Second, we review the empirical research on public service motivation and summarize the knowledge that has been built up so far in te…
Public Administration Research in East and Southeast Asia
In this article, we describe and explore the topics, methods, and author arrangements of the English language literature on public administration in East and Southeast Asia. Articles in the review are for the period 1999-2009 and were identified in the Web of Science. Searches identified 309 articles in the disciplinary area of public administration. The emphasis of scholarly attention is on East Asia—China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Ko…
Personnel Constraints in Public Organizations
In recent years, many public sector reforms have attempted to loosen personnel constraints on the assumption that more managerial flexibility will increase organizational performance. The authors mount an empirical study to test this assumption using data taken from English local government authorities. Personnel constraints are operationalized using Rainey's long‐standing measures of the concept. Statistical results from multiple regression anal…
On the role of imagery in event-based prospective memory
Motivational and neural systems of religion
Inzlicht, Tullett, and Good (IT&G) have provided a new and valuable insight into the neuroscience of religion, demonstrating that religious people show less activity in the anterior cingulate corte
Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Primary Stroke Center Policy in the United States
Objectives. We identified barriers and facilitators to the state-level implementation of primary stroke center (PSC) policies, which encourage the certification or designation of specialized stroke treatment facilities and may address concerns such as transportation bypass, telemedicine, and treatment protocols. Methods. We studied the experiences of 4 states (Florida, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and New York) selected from the 18 states that had …
Market Orientation and Public Service Performance
The backbone of theory of the market‐based approach New Public Management is that market orientation improves public service performance. In this article, market orientation is operationalized through the dominant theoretical framework in the business literature: competitor orientation, customer orientation, and interfunctional coordination. Market orientation is examined from the vantage point of three stakeholder groups in English local governm…
Whistle Blowers in the Federal Civil Service
There is a strong undercurrent in the literature of public administration that suggests the existence—and importance—of service-related motives linked to the public interest. Publicservice motivation (PSM) is a fledgling theory that predicts that many individuals predisposed to public norms and emotions act in the public interest, even when doing so runs counter to their selfinterest. This study represents the first attempt to link public service…
Building Social Capital
This study compares public servants and other citizens with regard to several important civic attitudes and behaviors that are closely related to social capital. These attributes include social trust, social altruism, equality, tolerance, humanitarianism, and civic participation. The first five attributes provide soft evidence of social capital, but the last attribute—civic participation—is hard behavioral evidence. Finally, a rigorous test is ap…
Why Elephants Gallop
Hal G. Rainey and Paula Steinbauer (1999) recently proposed a theory of effective government organizations.1 Several other theories exist in whole or in part, but empirical testing is rare. In this article we cut to the chase and examine several key elements of these theories empirically. First, we explore the theoretical dimensions of organizational performance and derive a taxonomy to help measure the construct. Second, we draw from the literat…
Individual Conceptions of Public Service Motivation
Many scholars and practitioners of public administration converge on the belief that some individuals are predisposed to perform public service. James L. Perry (1996) recently clarified the public service motivation (PSM) construct and proposed a measurement scale. The present study builds on and extends this important stream of research by examining how individuals view the motives associated with public service. Specifically, we use an intensiv…
Public Service Motivation
Over the past two decades, research on public service motivation has seen rapid growth. Despite the relatively large number of publications to date, no systematic research overview has been created, leaving the body of literature somewhat unstructured and possibly hampering future research. This article fills this void by providing a systematic literature review of 323 publications that examines six key aspects of the literature on public service…
In the Eye of the Storm
This study examines the role of frontline supervisors in the twenty-two largest federal agencies and explores their contributions to organizational performance and effectiveness. Specifically, this study develops a measure of federal agency performance and tests a hybrid model that predicts it. Several research questions on the nature and importance of supervisory management are tested within this framework. Data for the study come from the 2000 …
The Impact of Red Tape on Governmental Performance
This study investigates the impact of red tape on governmental performance in the context of English local government. Both the red tape and performance constructs are multidimensional, so relationships between the concepts and their several dimensions are examined in detail. The results show that different types of red tape have varying impacts on governmental performance but that these effects are somewhat weaker than public management theory a…
Best Practice Recommendations for Replicating Experiments in Public Administration
Replication is an important mechanism through which broad lessons for theory and practice can be drawn in the applied interdisciplinary social science field of public administration. We suggest a common replication framework for public administration that is illustrated by experimental work in the field. Drawing on knowledge from other disciplines, together with our experience in replicating several experiments on topics such as decision making, …
Parsing Public/Private Differences in Work Motivation and Performance
This article echoes recent calls for public management research to focus on core questions and utilize multiple methods to advance the state of knowledge in the field. In this article, we call for more experimental research on the public/private distinction, which is a core public management research topic. We then conduct a pilot experimental study that provides new insights—and what seem to be major implications—about this important topic. Spec…
Reconciling Competing Values in Public Administration
This article reports research on the administrative role concept. The authors use the inductive research technique Q-methodology to probe the belief systems of 69 public administrators about their administrative roles and responsibilities. Results show that these administrators perceive five distinct roles. The authors labeled these roles stewards of the public interest, adapted realists, businesslike utilitarians, resigned custodians, and practi…
Past, Present, and Future of Public Service Motivation Research
This article reviews the evolution of almost 25 years of public service motivation research in order to identify what is necessary to raise future research to a higher level. First, we look at the rise in public service motivation research and try to provide an explanation for the increasing number of publications. Second, we review the empirical research on public service motivation and summarize the knowledge that has been built up so far in te…
Red Tape
Red tape studies typically focus on burdensome rules that have negative effects on organizations, as perceived by managers. The one‐item general red tape scale is representative of this approach. However, scholars have called for improved measures that address the scale's shortcomings. This article introduces a new measurement scale that features (1) red tape as a two‐dimensional construct that includes compliance burden and lack of functionality…
Explaining Variation in Perceptions of Red Tape
In the public administration literature, ways in which perceptions of red tape vary between different parts of the public sector remains relatively unexplored. In this article we define organizational red tape as a subject-dependent concept; that is, we expect to see variations in the level and type of red tape between different internal stakeholder groups. We then explain variations with two organizational-based variables, professionalization an…
The Role of City Managers
This study uses a survey of 1,135 city managers to evaluate the contemporary city manager role and to evaluate its consistency with principal-agent theory. The findings are mixed. It appears that city councils can control city managers as principal-agent theory suggests, but that most city councils opt for less complex solutions involving trust and role sharing with the city manager. In other words, principal-agent theory does not fully explain t…
Public Administration Research in East and Southeast Asia
In this article, we describe and explore the topics, methods, and author arrangements of the English language literature on public administration in East and Southeast Asia. Articles in the review are for the period 1999-2009 and were identified in the Web of Science. Searches identified 309 articles in the disciplinary area of public administration. The emphasis of scholarly attention is on East Asia—China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Ko…
Work Motivation in the Senior Executive Service
Some scholars believe that more effort should be devoted to the development of a comprehensive theory of work motivation. Several candidate theories have been advanced in recent years, but they are radically different and empirical testing is almost nonexistent. This article reports the first known effort to test one of these metatheories-the high performance cycle proposed by Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham. Specifically, we asses the empirica…
Determinants of Graduate Research Productivity in Doctoral Programs of Public Administration
Given that research is the first step in improved practice, how can public administration doctoral programs train more productive research scholars? This article reports details on the first systematic attempt to answer this question empirically. Specifically, the authors collect data from 47 NASPAA-affiliated doctoral programs and test conventional wisdom distilled from the literature. Three factors prove to be important in doctoral programs tha…
Designing and Implementing E-Government Systems
This article explores the emerging challenges and opportunities of information technology in government and argues that designing and implementing e-government systems involves more than merely improving the instrumental processes of government. Democratic values can serve as design elements and anchors for these systems. Thus, the authors argue that public administrators should take an active role in designing and implementing e-government syste…
Comparing the Roles of Political Appointees and Career Executives in the U.S. Federal Executive Branch
This study uses Anthony Downs’s well-known typology of bureaucratic roles (climbers, conservers, advocates, zealots, and statesmen) as a theoretical template to examine the roles of political appointees and career executives serving in Washington, D.C. during the Reagan administration. Officials were asked to rank various personal goals in a 1987 survey. Political appointees were more likely to endorse climber (career advancement) and zealot (pol…
Can Management Strategy Minimize the Impact of Red Tape on Organizational Performance
This study investigates the effects of red tape and strategy on organizational performance. Data come from 135 English local government authorities. Data are collected on several dimensions of red tape, three types of strategy (prospecting, defending, and reacting), and internal and external perceptual measures of organizational performance. The findings show that red tape lowers performance. The harmful effects of red tape are, however, mitigate…
Can public managers reduce red tape? The role of internal management in overcoming external constraints
This study assesses the relative impact of four waves of variables on the level of red tape in English local government services. These variables range from factors that are largely uncontrollable, such as the inherent nature of the service being provided and turbulence in the external environment, to factors that are at least partly within public managers’ control, such as organisational integration and management strategy. Data for this study c…
Individual differences in state and trait mind-wandering influence episodic memory encoding and retrieval dynamics
Whistle Blowers in the Federal Civil Service
There is a strong undercurrent in the literature of public administration that suggests the existence—and importance—of service-related motives linked to the public interest. Publicservice motivation (PSM) is a fledgling theory that predicts that many individuals predisposed to public norms and emotions act in the public interest, even when doing so runs counter to their selfinterest. This study represents the first attempt to link public service…
The Role of City Managers
This study uses a survey of 1,135 city managers to evaluate the contemporary city manager role and to evaluate its consistency with principal-agent theory. The findings are mixed. It appears that city councils can control city managers as principal-agent theory suggests, but that most city councils opt for less complex solutions involving trust and role sharing with the city manager. In other words, principal-agent theory does not fully explain t…
Reconciling Competing Values in Public Administration
This article reports research on the administrative role concept. The authors use the inductive research technique Q-methodology to probe the belief systems of 69 public administrators about their administrative roles and responsibilities. Results show that these administrators perceive five distinct roles. The authors labeled these roles stewards of the public interest, adapted realists, businesslike utilitarians, resigned custodians, and practi…
Determinants of Graduate Research Productivity in Doctoral Programs of Public Administration
Given that research is the first step in improved practice, how can public administration doctoral programs train more productive research scholars? This article reports details on the first systematic attempt to answer this question empirically. Specifically, the authors collect data from 47 NASPAA-affiliated doctoral programs and test conventional wisdom distilled from the literature. Three factors prove to be important in doctoral programs tha…
Comparing the Roles of Political Appointees and Career Executives in the U.S. Federal Executive Branch
This study uses Anthony Downs’s well-known typology of bureaucratic roles (climbers, conservers, advocates, zealots, and statesmen) as a theoretical template to examine the roles of political appointees and career executives serving in Washington, D.C. during the Reagan administration. Officials were asked to rank various personal goals in a 1987 survey. Political appointees were more likely to endorse climber (career advancement) and zealot (pol…
Individual Conceptions of Public Service Motivation
Many scholars and practitioners of public administration converge on the belief that some individuals are predisposed to perform public service. James L. Perry (1996) recently clarified the public service motivation (PSM) construct and proposed a measurement scale. The present study builds on and extends this important stream of research by examining how individuals view the motives associated with public service. Specifically, we use an intensiv…
Work Motivation in the Senior Executive Service
Some scholars believe that more effort should be devoted to the development of a comprehensive theory of work motivation. Several candidate theories have been advanced in recent years, but they are radically different and empirical testing is almost nonexistent. This article reports the first known effort to test one of these metatheories-the high performance cycle proposed by Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham. Specifically, we asses the empirica…
Why Elephants Gallop
Hal G. Rainey and Paula Steinbauer (1999) recently proposed a theory of effective government organizations.1 Several other theories exist in whole or in part, but empirical testing is rare. In this article we cut to the chase and examine several key elements of these theories empirically. First, we explore the theoretical dimensions of organizational performance and derive a taxonomy to help measure the construct. Second, we draw from the literat…
Building Social Capital
This study compares public servants and other citizens with regard to several important civic attitudes and behaviors that are closely related to social capital. These attributes include social trust, social altruism, equality, tolerance, humanitarianism, and civic participation. The first five attributes provide soft evidence of social capital, but the last attribute—civic participation—is hard behavioral evidence. Finally, a rigorous test is ap…
In the Eye of the Storm
This study examines the role of frontline supervisors in the twenty-two largest federal agencies and explores their contributions to organizational performance and effectiveness. Specifically, this study develops a measure of federal agency performance and tests a hybrid model that predicts it. Several research questions on the nature and importance of supervisory management are tested within this framework. Data for the study come from the 2000 …
Designing and Implementing E-Government Systems
This article explores the emerging challenges and opportunities of information technology in government and argues that designing and implementing e-government systems involves more than merely improving the instrumental processes of government. Democratic values can serve as design elements and anchors for these systems. Thus, the authors argue that public administrators should take an active role in designing and implementing e-government syste…
An Organizational Echelon Analysis of the Determinants of Red Tape in Public Organizations
This article adopts an organizational echelon approach to the study of red tape in public organizations and argues that the nature and extent of red tape will vary at different levels of the organizational hierarchy. These propositions are tested with a multiple‐informant survey using a lagged model. The empirical results across the three organizational echelons sampled indicate modest variations in the levels of perceived red tape and major vari…
Can Management Strategy Minimize the Impact of Red Tape on Organizational Performance
This study investigates the effects of red tape and strategy on organizational performance. Data come from 135 English local government authorities. Data are collected on several dimensions of red tape, three types of strategy (prospecting, defending, and reacting), and internal and external perceptual measures of organizational performance. The findings show that red tape lowers performance. The harmful effects of red tape are, however, mitigate…
Drafting the Bolero Plan
This year marks the sixty‐fifth anniversary of the D‐Day invasion, when Allied forces crossed the English Channel and established beachheads along a 50‐mile stretch of the Normandy coast in northern France. Troops overcame stiff resistance and systematically moved inland, liberating Northern Europe and forcing the surrender of Germany and the end of World War II in that part of the world. The D‐Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, but its pla…
Can public managers reduce red tape? The role of internal management in overcoming external constraints
This study assesses the relative impact of four waves of variables on the level of red tape in English local government services. These variables range from factors that are largely uncontrollable, such as the inherent nature of the service being provided and turbulence in the external environment, to factors that are at least partly within public managers’ control, such as organisational integration and management strategy. Data for this study c…
Social Capital and Fire Service Performance
Objective. The present study evaluates whether areas with high levels of social capital are likely to have better fire service performance. Method. Utilizing Robert Putnam's 14-measure index of social capital, OLS regression techniques are applied to objective data on the rate of unintentional fire deaths in the U.S. states between 1980 and 2003. Results. The findings show that social capital is associated with a low unintentional fire death rate…
Explaining Variation in Perceptions of Red Tape
In the public administration literature, ways in which perceptions of red tape vary between different parts of the public sector remains relatively unexplored. In this article we define organizational red tape as a subject-dependent concept; that is, we expect to see variations in the level and type of red tape between different internal stakeholder groups. We then explain variations with two organizational-based variables, professionalization an…
Substitution and Supplementation Between Co-Functional Policy Instruments
Governments often use multiple policy instruments for pursuing policy goals with mutually reinforcing effects. These effects include supplementation and substitution. This article examines both effects by studying two instruments of state budget stabilization policy: general fund balances and budget stabilization funds. States normally maintain budget surpluses in the general fund. In recent decades, many also created separate budget stabilizatio…
The Impact of Red Tape on Governmental Performance
This study investigates the impact of red tape on governmental performance in the context of English local government. Both the red tape and performance constructs are multidimensional, so relationships between the concepts and their several dimensions are examined in detail. The results show that different types of red tape have varying impacts on governmental performance but that these effects are somewhat weaker than public management theory a…
On the role of imagery in event-based prospective memory
Motivational and neural systems of religion
Inzlicht, Tullett, and Good (IT&G) have provided a new and valuable insight into the neuroscience of religion, demonstrating that religious people show less activity in the anterior cingulate corte
Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Primary Stroke Center Policy in the United States
Objectives. We identified barriers and facilitators to the state-level implementation of primary stroke center (PSC) policies, which encourage the certification or designation of specialized stroke treatment facilities and may address concerns such as transportation bypass, telemedicine, and treatment protocols. Methods. We studied the experiences of 4 states (Florida, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and New York) selected from the 18 states that had …
Market Orientation and Public Service Performance
The backbone of theory of the market‐based approach New Public Management is that market orientation improves public service performance. In this article, market orientation is operationalized through the dominant theoretical framework in the business literature: competitor orientation, customer orientation, and interfunctional coordination. Market orientation is examined from the vantage point of three stakeholder groups in English local governm…
Parsing Public/Private Differences in Work Motivation and Performance
This article echoes recent calls for public management research to focus on core questions and utilize multiple methods to advance the state of knowledge in the field. In this article, we call for more experimental research on the public/private distinction, which is a core public management research topic. We then conduct a pilot experimental study that provides new insights—and what seem to be major implications—about this important topic. Spec…
Personnel Constraints in Public Organizations
In recent years, many public sector reforms have attempted to loosen personnel constraints on the assumption that more managerial flexibility will increase organizational performance. The authors mount an empirical study to test this assumption using data taken from English local government authorities. Personnel constraints are operationalized using Rainey's long‐standing measures of the concept. Statistical results from multiple regression anal…
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