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In: The American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 407-412
ISSN: 1552-3357
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In: The American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 407-412
ISSN: 1552-3357
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 76, Heft 3, S. 539
ISSN: 0033-3298
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 76, Heft 3, S. 539-558
ISSN: 0033-3298
In: Policy studies journal: an international journal of public policy, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 495-514
ISSN: 0190-292X
In: Public administration quarterly, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 104
ISSN: 0734-9149
In: Public personnel management, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 135-152
ISSN: 1945-7421
In: Public personnel management, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 135-152
ISSN: 0091-0260
In: Administration & society, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 293-316
ISSN: 0095-3997
In: Handbook of Public Administration, S. 569-580
In: Handbook of Public Administration: Concise Paperback Edition, S. 351-362
In: Administration & society, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 229-250
ISSN: 1552-3039
One of the few issues on which public management scholars agree in theory is the centrality of the democratic ethos. Public policy has recently paid attention to more democratic forms of policy making (e.g., participatory policy analysis), and public administration has periodically studied and advocated increased citizen participation in the processes of government. But the field of public management scholarship has yet to make a similar commitment to the democratic ethos, despite some contemporary practices (flattened hierarchies, self-managing teams) that represent democratization in public organizations. This essay reviews reasons why public management should be more democratic, some ways in which it is not, and proposes some ways in which the focus of scholarship and practice should be directed.
In: Administration & society, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 229
ISSN: 0095-3997
In: American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 407
ISSN: 0275-0740
In: The American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 401-416
ISSN: 1552-3357
Based on theories of job satisfaction and the motivating potential of professional work, we would expect public-sector professionals to express a level of satisfaction higher than that of other workers, yet this is not clearly the case. While some previous research has found that professionals have higher levels of job satisfaction than lower-level workers, other studies indicate that publicsector professionals are less satisfied than their private-sector counterparts and are no more satisfied than blue-collar workers. This study surveys local-government professionals (N = 125) in Colorado to determine their job satisfaction and their expectations of intrinsic satisfaction from work. They rated their work much higher in motivating potential than comparable groups of professionals and expressed significantly higher job satisfaction. Although most said their expectations for interesting work were more than met on the job, a major fraction expressed unmet expectations for power and authority and for recognition. The findings confirm previous research showing the importance of social relations and intrinsic factors in predicting job satisfaction but fail to support the generalization that public-sector professionals experience problematically low job satisfaction or that they find their jobs relatively low in motivating potential.
In: American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 401-416
ISSN: 0275-0740