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Formalization and Consistency Heighten Organizational Rule Following : Experimental and Survey Evidence

Borry, Erin L. - 2018

This study examines the attributes of organizational rules that influence rule following. Rule following fosters organizational effectiveness by aligning individual behaviors with organizational preference. While a range of theoretical explanations has been offered for rule following, the...

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Improving Safety Climate and Behavior Through a Multifaceted Intervention : Results from a Field Experiment

Bronkhorst, Babette - 2017

Interventions aimed at increasing priority for employee safety could lead to better safety climate and safety behavior of employees. However, current studies reporting on safety climate interventions lack diversity in contexts and settings, they focus mainly on supervisors and do not take into...

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The Impact of Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) on Work-Family Interference and Work-Family Facilitation

Tummers, Lars; Bronkhorst, Babette - 2014

Purpose – We analyze the effects of leadership on work-family spillovers. Specifically, we analyze the relationships between leadership (leader-member exchange, LMX) with one negative work-family spillover effect (work-family interference) and one positive work-family spillover effect...

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Leadership and Meaningful Work in the Public Sector

Tummers, Lars; Knies, Eva - 2013

In the public administration discipline, there have been a number of important studies on leadership. However, here, scholarly inquiry still lags behind related disciplines such as psychology and business administration. This article contributes by analyzing the role public leaders can play in...

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The Management of Change in Public Organisations : A Literature Review

Kuipers, Ben; Higgs, Malcolm; Kickert, Walter; Tummers, Lars - 2014

This article presents a review of the recent literature on change management in public organisations and sets out to explore the extent to which this literature has responded to earlier critiques regarding the lack of (public) contextual factors. The review includes 133 articles published on...

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Held Back and Pushed Forward : Leading Organizational Change in a Complex Public Environment

Van der Voet, Joris - 2014

Purpose. Recent studies have suggested that the specific characteristics of public organizations may have a bearing on the implementation of organizational change. Public organizations typically operate in an environment characterized by checks and balances, shared power, divergent interests and...

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Measuring Public Leadership : Developing Scales for Four Key Public Leadership Roles

Tummers, Lars - 2015

This article on public leadership contributes to the literature by (1) focusing on the ‘public' aspect of leadership and (2) developing quantitative scales for measuring four public leadership roles. These roles all refer to the extent to which public leaders actively support their employees...

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Impact of employment support programs on the quality of youth employment: evidence from senegal's internship program

Tsambou, André Dumas; Diallo, Thierno Malick; Fomba … - 2023

Youth unemployment is major policy concern in Senegal. The country has in recent years, implemented several programs to … combat unemployment and the precariousness of youth employment in the labor market. However, the results of these programs … quality of youth employment. We provide empirical evidence of the effect of the apprenticeship program implemented by the …

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The New Activist Non-Profits : Four Models Breaking from the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Haber, Michael - 2019

Twenty-first century activists—inspired by recent social movements and criticisms of the “non-profit industrial complex”—have increasingly sought to avoid pursuing their activism through the hierarchical, professionally managed non-profit corporations that have been the norm for social...

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The Promise and Limits of Collective Action for Nonprofit Self-Regulation : Evidence from Asia

Sidel, Mark - 2008

Self-regulation is a new mandate in American nonprofit life, both for the nonprofit sector itself and for its government overseers. In the United States, this new self-regulation imperative is the product of oversight and hearings by the Senate Finance Committee on nonprofit and philanthropic...

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