Linking Management Reform with Employee Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Federal Agencies

Yang, Kaifeng; Kassekert, Anthony

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“…First, despite the large sample size which helps control for many treats to validity (Yang & Kassekert, 2009), the cross-sectional nature of the data still poses concerns about causality. Although engagement literature generally supports the direction of relationship examined in the present study, several researchers also showed that job satisfaction can be an antecedent of work engagement.…”

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Sexual Minority and Employee Engagement: Implications for Job Satisfaction

Jin

Park

2016

J. Public Nonprof Aff.

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Sexual Minority and Employee Engagement: Implications for Job Satisfaction

Jin

Park

2016

J. Public Nonprof Aff.

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“…The representatives of SCD and MI were involved in the 20 Interview, POLIT2, January 2014; Interview, EXP4, February 2014. 21 Lietuvos Respublikos valstybės tarnybos įstatymo 2,6,9,10,14,16,21,222,25,311,41,43,44,45,46 29 Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert, supra note 5, 32-35. 30 Interview, CHANC3, March 2014.…”

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“…The cultural identity of senior executives is a source for the attitudes towards the SCS, as a basis for the 43 Variable of role identity can be attributed as cultural variable only conditionally, because it express not only the understanding of the roles, but also the functions performed by senior servants. 44 This is confirmed by the relationships with "age" as demographic variable (Kendall tau_b =-0.889, P<0.001).…”

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Context as a Factor in Senior Civil Service Reform: Opinions and Attitudes of Senior Executives in Lithuania

Civinskas

Kaselis

Pivoras

2016

Baltic Journal of Law &Amp; Politics

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This article analyses the contextual factors and their impact on the planned creation of senior civil service (henceforth, SCS) within the Lithuanian civil service system since 2008.Based on a survey of Lithuanian senior executives' conducted in 2014 and qualitative semistructured interviews, the aim of this article is to reveal and explain incentives and obstacles of SCS reform in Lithuania. Empirical research data clarifies attitudes of senior civil servants and their role perceptions. Senior executives' attitudes towards the establishment of the SCS system were clearly positive. However, the research data reveals that supportive attitudes depend on the perception of the roles of senior executives. Senior civil servants who perceived themselves firstly as actors in policy formation and policy implementers were much more favourable towards the creation of SCS than senior civil servants with other role identities.

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“…This change is evident in a variety of national systems including the UK (O'Reilly & Reid, 2011), USA (Yang &Kasserkert, 2009), andScandinavia (Ibsen, Larsen, Madsen &Due, 2011). In these any many other nations, such reform has followed a similar pattern leading to the rise of managerialism as the dominant paradigm characterized by organizational restructuring (downsizing and delayering), redundancies and retrenchments, and increasing emphasis on accountability (Lynn, 2006).…”

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“…Bordia and his colleagues (2004) argue that participation implies and requires communication when implementing change in public sector organizations. We also bring into focus three major explicit reactions to managerialist reform by employees documented in the literature, namely: stress, declining psychological well-being, and decreased job satisfaction (e.g., Korunka et al, 2003;Yang & Kassekert, 2009). …”

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"Change Initiatives, Stressors, and Job Satisfaction: A Social Information Processing Perspective"

Teo

Pick

Yeung³

2013

AMPROC

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Scholars have argued that it is necessary develop new theoretical perspectives in order to better understand how managers, as change agents in public sector agencies, react to change.This study is a response to this call by adopting a Social Information Processing theoretical lens to investigate the consequences of managerialist-inspired change initiatives on employee outcomes in public sector organizations. Survey data about experiences of change initiatives, participation in change decision making, and provision of change information, changeinduced stressors, and job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing were collected from a cross-sectional sample of 659 public sector managerial employees from agencies across Australia. The dataset was randomly split into a calibration and a validation sample to empirically test a hypothesized model using Partial Least Squares analysis. Statistically significant paths common to the calibration and validation samples showed that public sector agencies implemented flexibility-focus change initiatives that are related to an increase in change-induced stress. There is also evidence to suggest that provision of change information reduced change-induced stressors, but contrary to expectation, participation in change decision-making increased stressors. Overall, the evidence suggests that top management led flexibility-focus change initiatives induces stress, job dis-satisfaction and psychological strain.

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Linking Management Reform with Employee Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Federal Agencies

Cited by 152 publications

References 61 publications

Sexual Minority and Employee Engagement: Implications for Job Satisfaction

Sexual Minority and Employee Engagement: Implications for Job Satisfaction

Context as a Factor in Senior Civil Service Reform: Opinions and Attitudes of Senior Executives in Lithuania

"Change Initiatives, Stressors, and Job Satisfaction: A Social Information Processing Perspective"

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