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Sawyer, B

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“…Although it is confirmed that three items are not sufficient to measure goal ambiguity in public organization, they are used by most perceptual studies; few are the studies that formulate (Calciolari et al, 2011;Jung & Lee, 2013;Jung & Ritz, 2014;Kim & Chang, 2009;Sawyer, 1992,) and use (Ayers, 2015; Caillier, 2016a; 2016b; Langbein & Stazyk, 2018) other items than the three above-mentioned.…”

Section: Measurement Of Goal Ambiguity According To the Perceptual Apmentioning

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“…Although political influence is the main antecedent of ambiguity, there are some elements, such as the absence of differences between the perception of ambiguity in the public and private sphere (Rainey, 1983, Rainey et al, 1995 and the fact that the ambiguity varies from organization to organization (Chun & Rainey, 2005a), which highlight the importance of the subjective element in the perception of ambiguity. It can be affirmed that the perception of ambiguity, albeit minimally, is conditioned by subjective factors that involve both the actors who generate it (Matland, 1995;Sawyer, 1992) and those who perceive it Pandey & Rainey, 2006;Stazyk & Goerdel, 2010).…”

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“…The second category contains subjective states of employees of the public administration, such as job satisfaction (Sawyer, 1992;Stazyk, 2009;Zhan et al, 2014), job motivation Stazyk, 2009;Wright, 2001; and the emotional commitment (Hassan & Rohrbaugh, 2012;Jung & Ritz, 2014;, but also the engagement towards the values of the public service (Bastien, 2009;Peng et al, 2015) and staff turnover . All these elements are negatively influenced by goal ambiguity, except for the turnover.…”

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“…In the public sphere, organizational goal ambiguity (or goal clarity or goal specificity) is the interpretative leeway in the way in which a goal or set of goals are conceived, pursued or interpreted (Chun & Rainey, 2005a). Therefore the ambiguity affects both goal formulation (Sawyer, 1992) and goal communication (Chun & Rainey, 2005a) and this makes it a concept difficult to measure.…”

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Goal Ambiguity in Public Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review

Botti¹,

Monda²

2019

IJBM

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In the literature on the public-private organizations is well known that public organizations have more ambiguous elements than private ones, such as ideology and objectives, that negatively influence the enthusiasm (Brunsson, 1986), motivation and performance of public employees (Pandey & Raney, 2006), as well as organizational performance (Chun & Raney, 2005). The close relationship with performance led many public administration scholars to deepen the concept of goal ambiguity in public management. However, given the lack of a univocal conceptualization of the phenomenon, the present work aims to contextualize goal ambiguity in the public administration, carrying out a systematic literature review. The results bring out goal ambiguity methods of measurement, its antecedents and consequences and the relationship between goal ambiguity and performance. From a theoretical point of view, the study allows systematizing the contributions on goal ambiguity, while from a practical point of view, a thorough knowledge of the concept allows public managers and policy-makers to obtain valuable information for the achievement of good organizational performance.

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