Why Public Employees Rebel

Guerrilla Government in the Public Sector

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6366145
AutoresGary E Hollibaugh (0000-0001-9844-2437, University of Pittsburgh), Matthew R Miles (0000-0002-8165-0851, Brigham Young University - Idaho, autor correspondente), Chad B Newswander (0009-0005-2719-310X, Brigham Young University - Idaho)
Ano2019
Volume80
Fascículo1
Páginas64-74
Data de publicação2019-11-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPublic Administration Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/puar.13118
OpenAlexW2991391067
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas42
Referências citadas33

Employee recalcitrance and employer reprisal are ever‐present conditions in public service. Yet we have limited knowledge of the forces that move administrators away from acquiescence and toward antagonism. The authors follow the theoretical thrust of behavioral public administration to better understand administrative behavior by targeting the determinants of guerrilla government actions. They do so by presenting the results of a conjoint experiment embedded in a survey of federal bureaucrats. Findings show that decisions to pursue guerrilla activities are conditional on a multitude of factors—namely, the bureaucrat's personal views of the directive as a policy solution, the compatibility of the directive with the bureaucrat's ethical framework, the status of the person issuing the directive, and the probability that the directive might cause harm to others. Notably, these decisions generally are not affected by the probability of retribution or the expected type thereof. However, they are affected by the magnitude of harm that may ensue if orders are obeyed and not resisted

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