Examining the Effects of Social Media Use on Job Satisfaction in the Australian Public Service: Testing Self-Determination Theory

10.1080/15309576.2017.1400991Public Performance & Management Review412300-32

Rediscovering Bureaucracy: Bureaucratic Professionalism, Impartiality, and Innovation

This study examines an empirical link between bureaucratic structures and country-level innovation outputs. Although there has been growing scholarly attention to public sector innovation, we still have a limited understanding of the relationship between the structures of public bureaucracies and country-level innovation. This paper emphasizes the importance of bureaucratic structure in ex-plaining cross-national variations in country-level innovation outputs. It hypothesizes that countries where bureaucrats’ careers are determined by merit-based recruitment rather than political appoin-tees tend to record higher innovation outputs, controlling for other confounding factors. Countries with higher levels of impartiality of bureaucracies in decision-making also tend to have higher inno-vation outputs. Utilizing cross-national data from the Quality of Government Institute Expert Sur-vey and Global Innovation Index, findings show that levels of innovation outputs are significantly higher in countries that have higher levels of professional and impartial bureaucracies. The results suggest the importance of administrative designs to promote innovative activities. Key Words Innovation; Weberian bureaucracy; Bureaucratic structure; Professionalism; Impartiality; Comparative public administratio

The Effects of Empowerment Practices on Perceived Barriers to Innovation: Evidence from Public Organizations

10.1080/01900692.2017.1387143International Journal of Public Administration41151302-131

Sources of Innovation, Autonomy, and Employee Job Satisfaction in Public Organizations

10.1080/15309576.2020.1820350Public Performance & Management Review441155-18

The effects of organizational and demographic context for innovation implementation in public organizations

10.1080/14719037.2019.1668467Public Management Review22121852-187

Why does innovation in government occur and persist? Evidence from the Australian government

10.1080/23276665.2019.1692570Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration4104217-22

Positioning Public Procurement as a Procedural Tool for Innovation: An Empirical Study

10.1080/14494035.2021.1955465Policy and Society4003379-39

Entrepreneurship in public organizations: the role of leadership behavior

Despite increasing research on entrepreneurship in the private sector, little is known about entrepreneurship in public organizations in general and the effects of leadership behavior on entrepreneurship in the public sector in particular. Utilizing new data from the Australian Public Service Commission (2017), this study analyzes how three leadership behaviors—task-oriented, relations-oriented, and change-oriented leadership—affect public sector employees’ entrepreneurship behavior. The results of this study show that while all three types of leadership behavior are positively associated with public sector entrepreneurship, the effect is larger for relations-oriented leadership, followed by change-oriented leadership. A practical implication of this study is that relations-oriented leadership behavior is crucial to entrepreneurship in public organizations, suggesting the importance of developing relationships with subordinates

Public sector innovation: the effect of universities

A growing literature in public management has identified the key role that innovation can play in enhancing agency efficiency, effectiveness, performance and legitimacy. However, considerably less is known about the actual sources of knowledge generating innovative activity in the public sector. This paper fills this crucial gap in the literature by explicitly analyzing the link between a key source of knowledge and ideas, universities, and the innovative activities of public organizations. By utilizing a new source of data, this paper is able to show that not only do universities play a key role in generating innovative activity in public organizations, but the nature of innovations and their impact on public sector performance are related to the role played by universities. The findings suggest that universities play a key role in generating innovative activity in public organizations as doing so can increase the quality of public services, employee job satisfaction, and interagency collaboration