How can management make a meaningful contribution to the performance of public services? Around the world, public organizations face increasingly complex social issues related to globalization, migration, health crises, national security, and climate change. To meet these challenges, we need a better understanding of what managing for public service performance means, and what it requires from public managers and public servants.
This book takes a multidisciplinary, critical, and context-sensitive approach to address such questions. Through a comparative review of public administration research, it examines a variety of management aspects such as leadership behavior, human resource management, performance, diversity, and change management. It also critically reflects on how the context of the public sector affects the management-performance relationship in democratic societies, as well as the influence of numerous stakeholders and their beliefs about the nature and purpose of public service. By clarifying conceptual issues and taking a theoretical and evidence-based approach to the relationships between management and performance, this book offers new directions for research and a framework to help improve public services in practice.
Edited by:
Peter Leisink (Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and Organization Science Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and Organization Science Utrecht University),
Lotte B. Andersen (Professor,
Professor,
Aarhus University),
Gene A. Brewer (Professor of Public Administration and Policy,
Professor of Public Administration and Policy,
The University of Georgia),
Christian B. Jacobsen (Associate Professor,
Associate Professor,
Aarhus University),
Eva Knies (Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management,
Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management,
Utrecht University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 242mm,
Width: 161mm,
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780192893420
ISBN 10: 0192893424
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 April 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1: Peter Leisink, Lotte B. Andersen, Gene A. Brewer, Christian B. Jacobsen, Eva Knies, and Wouter Vandenabeele: Introduction: Managing for Public Service Performance: How People and Values Make a Difference Part I. Key concepts and the public sector context 2: Lotte B. Andersen, Gene A. Brewer, and Peter Leisink: Stakeholders, Public Value(s), and Public Service Performance Research 3: Christian B. Jacobsen and Eva Knies: People Management: Integrating Insights from Strategic Human Resource Management and Leadership 4: Nina Van Loon and Wouter Vandenabeele: An Institutional Perspective on Public Services: Managing Publicness, Identities, and Behavior Part II. Public Management and Public Service Performance 5: Lotte B. Andersen, Christian B. Jacobsen, Ulrich T. Jensen, and Heidi H. Salomonsen: Public Managers' Contribution to Public Service Performance 6: Oliver James, Ayako Nakamura, and Nicolai Petrovsky: Managers as Insiders or Outsiders to Public Organizations: Publicness Fit, Leadership, and Organizational Performance 7: Eva Knies, Sophie Op de Beeck, and Annie Hondeghem: Antecedents of Managers' People Management: Using the AMO Model to Explain Differences in HRM Implementation and Leadership 8: Poul A. Nielsen and Caroline H. Grøn: How Can Public Managers Use Performance Management for Improvement without Demotivating Employees? 9: Julian S. Gould-Williams and Ahmed M. S. Mostafa: Linking HRM Systems with Public Sector Employees' Performance: The Way Forward 10: Tanachia Ashikali, Sandra Groeneveld, and Adrian Ritz: Managing a Diverse Workforce 11: Anne Mette Kjeldsen and Joris Van der Voet: Leading Change in a Complex Public Sector Environment Part III. Public Management, Job Performance, and Employee Outcomes 12: Bram Steijn and David Giauque: Public Sector Employee Well-Being: Examining Its Determinants Using the JD-R and P-E Fit Models 13: Ulrich T. Jensen, Carina Schott, and Trui Steen: Value Conflicts in Public Organizations: Implications and Remedies 14: Adrian Ritz, Wouter Vandenabeele, and Dominik Vogel: Public Service Motivation and Individual Job Performance 15: Jasmijn Van Harten and Brenda Vermeeren: Managing Employees' Employability: Employer and Employee Perspectives 16: Peter Leisink, Lotte B. Andersen, Gene A. Brewer, Christian B. Jacobsen, Eva Knies, and Wouter Vandenabeele: Conclusion: Directions for Future Research and Practice
Peter Leisink is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and Organization Science at the Utrecht University School of Governance, the Netherlands. Lotte B. Andersen is a professor at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Center Director of the Crown Prince Frederik Center for Public Leadership. Gene A. Brewer is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at The University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs, USA. Christian B. Jacobsen is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. Eva Knies is Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management at the Utrecht University School of Governance, the Netherlands. Wouter Vandenabeele is an associate professor at Utrecht University School of Governance, the Netherlands, and a visiting professor at KU Leuven University, Belgium.
