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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation
Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015
specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public … sector impact PSM. We also investigate how prospects of employment relations (fixed-term versus permanent contracts …), temporal differences (part-time versus full-time employment), and actual jobs (core versus subsidiary jobs) moderate PSM in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401655
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Rankings games
Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit - 2011
Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended side effects on individual scholars and academic institutions and can be counterproductive. They induce a substitution of the taste for science by a taste for publication. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316925
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Ranking Games
Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit - 2011
Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended side effects on individual scholars and academic institutions and can be counterproductive. They induce a substitution of the "taste for science" by a "taste for publication". We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168384
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Nudging the Nudger: A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mazar, Nina - 2022
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470271
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2008
ability and in public service motivation. We find that, if demand for public sector output is not too high, the equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325712
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2008
ability and in public service motivation. We find that, if demand for public sector output is not too high, the equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264466
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2010
service motivation. We find that, if demand for public sector output is not too high, the equilibrium return to managerial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269669
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Are workers motivated by the greater good?
Tonin, Mirco - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
intrinsic motivation. …
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Are public sector workers different? Cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603341
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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