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New Public Management posed challenges to governments by emphasizing the flexibility of workforce, innovation, and the role of supervisors in running public sector organizations. However, there is debate over whether job insecurity and organizational innovativeness contribute to organizational performance in the public sector. Furthermore, despite the growing awareness of the importance of supervisors, the issue of public sector employees' trust in their supervisors has received relatively little attention. The purpose of this article is to examine the impacts of job insecurity, innovation, and employees' trust in supervisors on organizational performance in order to explain these inconsistencies and fill the void in past research. It develops a structural equation model, built on two sets of Korean public employee survey data, whose results show that job insecurity is negatively related to performance, while employees' trust in supervisors and organizational innovativeness are positively associated with performance. In addition, employees' trust in supervisor is positively related to innovativeness.

AbstractMany indicators suggest that the level of gender equity is low in Korea. According to the psychological‐democratic contract theory, because gender inequality calls into question the capacity of government, when citizens perceive low levels of gender equity, they are not likely to trust in government. Despite the importance, relatively little attention is paid to the ramifications of gender equity on trust in government. To fill the void, the objective of this article was to identify the extent to which gender equity affects trust in government. The key findings of the 2009 Korean General Social Survey are as follows: (a) Gender equity positively affects trust in government; (b) Gender equity has a larger effect on female citizen trust in government than male citizen trust in government; and (c) gender equity is more strongly associated with trust in the Supreme Court than other government branches.

AbstractObjectivesPrevious research has shown a relationship between social and economic equality and trust, but the relationship between gender equality and trust has received relatively little attention. This study addresses that lacuna and analyzes the relationship between gender equality and political trust as well as social trust.MethodsUsing the 2015 Latinobarómetro, we test the relationship between two types of gender equality, labor gender equality and overall gender equality, and two types of trust, political trust and social trust in a series of regressions.ResultsThe results show that gender equality is positively associated with social and political trust. In particular, the magnitude of association of labor gender equality with social trust is greater than that of overall gender equality. Also, the magnitude of association of overall gender equality with political trust is greater than that of labor gender equality.ConclusionsOur article contributes to the literature by demonstrating that overall gender equality and labor gender equality have varying association with trust depending on types of trust.

There are few questions about the fact that China has achieved substantial strides in economic development over the last four decades. Nonetheless, many have cast doubts on its path of increasing transparency. Previous analyses on Chinese transparency have shed light on this issue in isolation. For this reason, we attempt to offer an integrated account of Chinese government transparency. Moreover, transparency involves various dimensions and types. For a complete understanding of transparency, therefore, considering diverse measures is critical. This article aims to provide a condensed overview of government transparency in China by considering various measures of transparency. To a certain extent, China has been successful in bringing greater transparency. Still, in many accounts, it cannot be said that the Chinese government has achieved sufficient progress in promoting transparency.

À ce jour, de nombreux pays en développement ont continué à mettre en place des systèmes de gouvernance décentralisés sur le plan budgétaire pour répondre plus efficacement aux besoins diversifiés des résidents locaux et mieux agir dans le sens de l'intérêt général. Cependant, on sait peu de choses sur le lien entre la décentralisation budgétaire et la confiance. En se concentrant empiriquement sur le cas sud-coréen, la présente étude examine comment une gouvernance financièrement décentralisée pourrait accroître la fiabilité du gouvernement non seulement au niveau national, mais aussi au niveau local. Les résultats de la régression multiniveau et des analyses de données de panel confirment en partie les résultats des études sur la décentralisation pro-budgétaire en ce que la croissance de l'autonomie budgétaire locale est positivement et significativement liée à la confiance du public dans le gouvernement. Plus précisément, nous constatons qu'à mesure que la décentralisation budgétaire s'améliore, les niveaux de confiance dans le gouvernement local augmentent également. De plus, nos résultats montrent qu'en termes d'amélioration des niveaux de confiance du public dans le gouvernement, l'impact de la décentralisation des recettes a tendance à être plus important que celui de la décentralisation des dépenses. Cette constatation implique que le fait de permettre aux gouvernements locaux d'avoir leurs propres sources de revenus plutôt qu'une autonomie dans les dépenses peut être un moyen de mieux répondre aux besoins de la population à long terme. Remarques à l'intention des praticiens Premièrement, à mesure que la décentralisation budgétaire s'améliore, les niveaux de confiance dans le gouvernement local augmentent également. Deuxièmement, permettre aux gouvernements locaux d'avoir leurs propres sources de revenus plutôt qu'une autonomie dans les dépenses peut être un moyen de mieux répondre aux besoins de la population à long terme. Troisièmement, les politiques gouvernementales devraient viser à offrir des avantages aux citoyens dans leur propre intérêt, par exemple en assurant des prestations efficaces ou en améliorant la qualité des services et programmes publics susceptibles d'être perçus positivement par les électeurs. Cela pourrait encourager les citoyens à s'engager dans les sphères actuelles du secteur public d'une manière qui affecte positivement leur confiance et leurs attentes à l'égard des politiques gouvernementales et des bureaucrates.

To date, many developing countries have continued to implement fiscally decentralized governance systems to respond to the diversified needs of local residents more effectively and to better act in line with the public interest. However, little is known about the fiscal decentralization–trust link. Focusing empirically on the South Korean case, this study examines how financially decentralized governance might increase government trustworthiness not just at the national level, but also at the local level. The results of multilevel regression and panel data analyses partly confirm the results of pro-fiscal decentralization studies in that the growth of local fiscal autonomy is positively and significantly related to public trust in government. Specifically, we find that as fiscal decentralization improves, levels of trust in local government also rise. In addition, our findings show that in terms of having higher levels of public trust in government, the impact of revenue decentralization tends to be greater than that of expenditure decentralization. This evidence implies that allowing local governments to have their own revenue sources rather than expenditure autonomy can be a way to better respond to people's needs in the long run.Points for practitionersFirst, as fiscal decentralization improves, levels of trust in local government also rise. Second, allowing local governments to have their own revenue sources rather than expenditure autonomy can be a way to better respond to people's needs in the long run. Third, government policies should aim to provide benefits to citizens for their own sake, such as by exercising effective delivery or improving the quality of public services and programs that are likely to be viewed positively by constituents. This could encourage citizens to engage with the current public-sector spheres in ways that affect their confidence and expectations of government policies and bureaucrats in a positive manner.

Given its focus on customer satisfaction and quality service, emotional labor (EL) is a prominent topic in public administration. As public employees are engaged more often in EL, it is critical to explore determinants of job stress and management strategies to reduce it. By examining the Korean Working Conditions Survey, this study focused on EL's effects on employees' well-being—job stress and job satisfaction—as well as the potential moderating effects of workplace characteristics, such as working with a female manager, work–life balance programs or resources, and participatory management processes. We examined the potential moderating role of female managers engaged in EL in gendered institutions, and found evidence that female managers buffer EL's negative effects on their employees, even in organizational contexts gendered deeply. This finding implies that EL needs to be considered in the context of organizational culture and environment, particularly when related to gendered, hierarchical, or masculine organizations.

Recent studies indicate that a team with entrepreneurial passion performs positively. To understand the dynamics of new venture teams (NVTs), however, more research is needed on cross-level interactions and the cyclical relationship between passion and performance. We hypothesize that the perception of a lead entrepreneur's passion and entrepreneurial passion diversity are team-level constructs that influence the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and performance. Furthermore, utilizing the input-mediator-output-input (IMOI) model, we investigate whether the performance of NVTs affects members' pre- and post-entrepreneurial passions while developing their businesses. We collected and analyzed multi-wave data from 160 individuals nested in 53 NVTs. The results indicate that entrepreneurial passion predicts perceptions of performance in general. However, the focal relationship is moderated by how NVT members perceive the lead entrepreneur's passion. Our findings also suggest that entrepreneurial passion diversity directly hinders performance perception, although it does not influence the passion-performance link. Moreover, this study reveals that the perception of NVT performance mediates the effect of prior passion on subsequent passion, supporting the cyclic nature of the passion-performance relationship in NVTs. The theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed.