Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from October 2005

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from October 2005

Introducing the "determinants of performance in public organizations" symposium.(INTRODUCTION)
October 1, 2005... The performance of public organizations has become a topic of great interest to scholars and practitioners of public management around the globe. This interest stems from theoretical and methodological puzzles posed by organizational...

Representative bureaucracy, organizational strategy, and public service performance: an empirical analysis of English local government.
October 1, 2005... Increasing workforce diversity poses some of the most challenging questions for the management of public services (Riccucci 2002). Governments around the world have legislated to ensure that public organizations are representative...

In the eye of the storm: frontline supervisors and federal agency performance.
October 1, 2005... For some time, there have been ominous signs of an emerging human capital crisis in the federal government (Lane and Wolf 1990; Levine and Kleeman 1986; Lewis 1991; National Commission on the Public Service 1989). This "quiet crisis" has...

Goal ambiguity and organizational performance in U.S. federal agencies.
October 1, 2005... The literature on public organizations contains numerous assertions about the impacts of goal ambiguity on important characteristics of those organizations. Again and again, authors say that vague, hard-to-measure goals influence structural...

How does public management affect government performance? Findings from international research.
October 1, 2005... Despite the growing importance of public management reform around the world, there has been relatively little scholarly effort devoted to evaluating the contributions of public management to government performance--that is, to the character and...

The effects of managerial succession on organizational performance.
October 1, 2005... The influence of public managers on organizational performance has persistently been of interest in the field of public administration (Barnard 1939; Brudney, O'Toole, and Rainey 2000; Nicholson-Crotty and O'Toole 2004; Rainey 2003). Case...

Multiple public service performance indicators: toward an integrated statistical approach.
October 1, 2005... In most industrialized nations, measuring the performance of public services has assumed central political importance, as governments come under increased pressure to reduce taxation and ensure that tax revenues are spent cost-effectively. To...

Diversity, representation, and performance: evidence about race and ethnicity in public organizations.
October 1, 2005... In the past twenty years, the growing percentages of racial minorities in the United States have brought diversity to the attention of public management and policy scholarship. Public administration research has recently considered an abundance...

Where next? Research directions on performance in public organizations.(CONCLUSION)
October 1, 2005... The dependent variable in all the articles presented in this symposium issue of JPART was organizational performance in public agencies. Management variables included organizational strategy, resources, leadership, goals, workforce diversity,...