Pub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2070517
Bui Nhat Vuong
ABSTRACT This study empirically investigates the effects of servant leadership on job performance and notes the mediating role of innovative work behaviour and the moderating role of public service motivation. The research framework was tested using a survey of 361 civil servants working in local governments in Vietnam. The findings indicated significant positive effects of servant leadership on job performance. This relationship was partially mediated by innovative work behaviour. In addition, the study found that public service motivation positively affected innovative work behaviour and strengthened its association with servant leadership. The managerial implication is that public managers should promote civil servants’ public service motivation and adopt servant leadership. Suggestions for future research are also presented.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2062400
V. Lapuente, Kohei Suzuki
to critical the development of competence in the for countries and have to them with the goal of the overall quality of government in the country.
对这些国家的能力发展进行批判，并将其与国家政府整体质量的目标联系起来。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-29DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2047749
Jessica Breaugh, Guillem Ripoll
ABSTRACT Although the term public service motivation (PSM) was coined 30 years ago, its theoretical development is still ongoing. One of these debates examines how to differentiate it from likeminded concepts. Recent theoretical development related to PSM focus on the salience of giving back to society, or non-identified beneficiaries, in contrast to individual users. To assess this distinction, empirical research is essential. Using a between-subjects vignette experiment among a representative sample of 1512 citizens in Catalonia (Spain), we test whether PSM can predict task preferences depending on the extent to which they are oriented to non-identified and identified beneficiaries. This article demonstrates that PSM is mainly oriented to society at large rather than individual users. The findings present evidence to confirm emerging PSM conceptualisations as well as highlight important implications for research and practice – especially with respect to public service job design.
摘要公共服务动机(public service motivation, PSM)一词诞生于30年前，但其理论发展仍在进行中。其中一场辩论探讨了如何将其与同类概念区分开来。最近与PSM相关的理论发展侧重于回馈社会或未确定受益人的重要性，而不是个人用户。为了评估这种区别，实证研究是必不可少的。在加泰罗尼亚(西班牙)1512名公民的代表性样本中使用受试者之间的小插图实验，我们测试PSM是否可以预测任务偏好，这取决于他们面向非确定和确定受益人的程度。本文表明，PSM主要面向整个社会，而不是个人用户。研究结果提供了证据，证实了新兴的PSM概念，并强调了研究和实践的重要含义，特别是在公共服务工作设计方面。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2028172
Hyeon-Suk Lyu, Tae Hyung Kim, Daeun Sung, M. Moon
ABSTRACT Despite the growing body of evidence about quality of government, few studies have applied the results to the outcomes of civil service training programmes. Given that the development of civil service capacity is a key driver of national development, this study explores the nexus between quality of government in Southeast Asian countries and the outcomes of civil service training programmes. Using a survey of Southeast Asian civil servants who participated in capacity development programmes organised by various Korean institutions, this study examines trainees’ perceptions of quality of government, the capacity needs of their civil services, and the limitations of and improvements in existing capacity development programmes. This study offers theoretical and practical implication concerning associations between quality of government and the effectiveness of official development assistance training programmes for civil servants in developing countries.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2045206
Hang Duong
ABSTRACT While recognising the significance of political actors in policy transfer, research focuses more on the role of political elites than on political parties and is dominated by studies about Western democracies rather than authoritarian states. This article examines how the ruling party shapes merit-based policy transfer in authoritarian Vietnam. It finds that with the combined developmental and political motivation, the ruling party takes comprehensive control over the transfer process through their authority to initiate, navigate, and approve. The one-party structure has both facilitating and constraining effects, allowing the ruling party to adopt a selective policy transfer approach that results in meritocracy without neutral competence. The study shows the dialectical relationship between structure and agency in policy transfer. It also challenges the assumption that the separation of political and bureaucratic careers can be applicable in authoritarianism by showing that a politically neutral civil service is impossible in the context of highly politicised merit-based policy transfer.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2035238
Guillem Ripoll, Martin Rode
ABSTRACT Although previous research has explored broadly the determinants of public service motivation (PSM), little is known about how it is affected by formal institutional variations. This article examines the presence of PSM in the bureaucracies of democratic and autocratic political regimes. Merging data from the four waves of the International Social Survey Programme with a recent classification of regime types, this study confirms that autocracies seem neither to diminish public servants’ levels of PSM, nor hinder its cultivation. In fact, we find indications that PSM is likely to be higher in autocracies, where the positive effect of relatedness on PSM is also stronger than in democracies, albeit the latter is partially non-significant. Future research and practical implications of the findings are further discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2039073
Chung-an Chen, Chengwei Xu, Dongjie Chen
ABSTRACT In East Asia, where a culture of submission to authority dominates, parental expectations significantly influence children’s career choices. A recent empirical study conducted in Taiwan shows that children are more inclined to pursue a public service career when influenced by their parents’ expectations. The present study asks two questions: why do parents in East Asia expect children to secure a career in public service? Is it a result of social pressure, parents’ own values, their socio-economic status, or all of these possible reasons? The present study uses data collected in Taiwan to answer these questions. Our findings broaden the current knowledge base of parental socialisation and its effect on children’s preference for public sector careers.
{"title":"“Expecting children to be dragons” in an east asian context: Parental expectations of children choosing a career in the public sector","authors":"Chung-an Chen, Chengwei Xu, Dongjie Chen","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2022.2039073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2039073","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In East Asia, where a culture of submission to authority dominates, parental expectations significantly influence children’s career choices. A recent empirical study conducted in Taiwan shows that children are more inclined to pursue a public service career when influenced by their parents’ expectations. The present study asks two questions: why do parents in East Asia expect children to secure a career in public service? Is it a result of social pressure, parents’ own values, their socio-economic status, or all of these possible reasons? The present study uses data collected in Taiwan to answer these questions. Our findings broaden the current knowledge base of parental socialisation and its effect on children’s preference for public sector careers.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88070919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.2011341
Sangsuk Kim, Geunjoo Lee
ABSTRACT The Korean government introduced the “Balanced Public Personnel Policy” in the mid-1990s. Since then, diversity in the public sector has increased dramatically. However, studies examining the effect of diversity on organisation are scant. To fill the research gap, this study analysed the effects of organisational diversity using a sample of 778 employees from 35 Korean state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The study measured social category diversity, informational diversity, and value diversity and analysed their impacts on conflict and affective commitment. The results show that (1) social category diversity decreased conflict and increased affective commitment, (2) informational diversity did not have a statistically significant impact on conflict and affective commitment, (3) value diversity increased conflict and decreased affective commitment, and (4) conflict had a mediating effect on the relationship between value diversity and affective commitment. This study shows that organizational diversity affects affective commitment and that different types of diversity have different outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2026794
Colin Knox, S. Janenova
ABSTRACT This article considers the performance of bureaucracies in two authoritarian states located in Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The former has been a consolidated authoritarian regime since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The latter has oscillated between a form of parliamentary democracy and authoritarianism. We examine how the countries’ bureaucracies perform under different systems of governance and find that Kazakhstan is more effective given its relatively stable political context, higher level of professionalism, and greater policy capacity amongst its officials, notwithstanding its consistent authoritarian leadership. When politicians interfere in the work of officials, it results in lower impartiality and constitutional uncertainty. This finding reaffirms previous research (using Quality of Government survey data) which calls for the separation of political and bureaucratic roles as a way of improving government effectiveness and reducing corruption.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.2021431
Cheol Liu, Tima T. Moldogaziev, C. Witko
The use of experimental methods in the social and behavioural sciences, including somewhat belatedly the field of public administration, has recently exploded. Though public administration scholars in North America and Europe have begun using experiments extensively, experiments have been less common in the Asia-Pacific region. We are excited to offer this symposium in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration that furthers the use of experiments in public administration to improve both scholarly research and practice in the region. This symposium emerged from a conference on experimental research methods held in Seoul and sponsored by the Experimental Public Management Research Lab (ExPMR Lab) at KDI School of Public Policy and Management in December of 2019. The conference has become an annual event, with 2020 being held virtually, and it will continue to serve as an important platform in the dissemination of experimental public administration research in the Asia-Pacific region. We acknowledge the generous financial support from the ExPMR Lab and KDI School. Public administration scholars have long called for an increase in the use of experiments (Bozeman & Scott, 1992), but it was only in the last decade that experiments have been widely used in public administration research. This reflects an increasing concern with “credibility” in establishing causality in the social sciences (Angrist & Pischke, 2010). While public administration has always been, and almost of necessity will remain diverse in the methodologies it employs (Zhu et al., 2019), experiments have become more common because they are very good at allowing researchers to establish causality via randomisation, something that is difficult to attain with other designs. A recent review of experimental studies in leading public administration journals by Walker et al. (2017), however, notes their continued scarcity. Though experimental research is not as common in the Asia-Pacific region, there is a small but growing group of scholars using experimental methods, and some of their cutting-edge research is included in this volume. Chen et al. review and assess Asia-Pacific region’s capacity to produce experimental research in the lead article. This review demonstrates that, thus far, experimental methods are generally limited to a small number of universities and often involve international collaborations. The authors call for greater transparency in future scholarly research, particularly the implementation procedures in experiments, reports from experiments, and statements of future directions. The lead article is followed by an article from Shapiro, Bolsen, and Kim on framing of public messages and their influence on beliefs and attributions. Using an emphasis framing experiment, the authors test whether perceived importance of cooperation with China in solving air pollution problems in the region depends on the type of framing ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2022
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