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Toward a Useful Theory of Mentoring: A Conceptual Analysis and Critique
(Sage Publications Inc, 2007-10)In this review and critique of mentoring theory and research, the authors identify persistent problems in the development of mentoring theory. Their conceptual analysis highlights these problems with a “thought experiment” ... -
Sector Perceptions among State-Level Public Managers
(Oxford University Press, 2008-07)In this article, I investigate whether or not there is variance in public managers’ perceptions of worker quality and work life, by sector. Specifically, I investigate whether state-level public managers perceive the public ... -
Mentor Matching: A ‘Goodness of Fit’ Model
(Sage Publications Inc, 2008-09)One of the few mentoring topics that has received little attention in the abundant mentoring literature is the determinants of organically formed – (as opposed for formal program-based) mentoring relationships. We propose ... -
Mentoring and Network Ties
(Sage Publications Inc, 2008-12)Using questionnaire data obtained from a sample of state government managers, our study examines social capital foci (network ties) of mentoring relations. Others have shown that network ties are relevant to career development ... -
Public Management Mentoring: What Affects Outcomes?
(Oxford University Press, 2009)Few research studies focus on public managers’ mentoring and few mentoring studies of any sort include any outcome measure other than reported satisfaction. Our study examines diverse outcomes for a broad-based set of ... -
Public Management Mentoring: A Three Tier Model
(Sage Publications Inc, 2009-06)Despite the abundance of literature discussing the individual and organizational outcomes of mentoring, this ‘generic’ literature remains virtually silent on the role of mentoring in the public sector. We review and critique ... -
Staying Late: Comparing Work Hours in Public and Nonprofit Sectors
(Sage Publications Inc, 2009-09)Economic theories suggest that work behavior of public and nonprofit employees should resemble one another closely, owing to the lack of profit incentives and managerial or owner oversight of work. However, empirical ... -
Bureaucracy and Public Employee Behavior A Case of Local Government
(Sage Publications Inc, 2009-12)Government reinvention advocates assert that less bureaucratic work environments will spark higher creativity, more risk-taking, and greater productivity in public employees. While government reinvention remains a topic ... -
Measuring and Assessing Perceptions of Success in a Transit Agency's Stakeholder Involvement Program
(National Academy of Sciences, 2010)Stakeholder involvement is often a legally required activity for transit agencies. Optimally this process begins at the earliest stages of any given project and involves two-way communication and interaction that can be ... -
Data Mining Approach to the Work Trip Mode Choice Analysis in the Chicago Area
(National Academy of Sciences, 2010)Discrete Choice Methods have brought attention to the study of the travel mode choice behavior in both theoretical and practical areas of transportation planning and modeling. Unlike discrete choice models that impose ... -
Women in STEM Networks: Who Seeks Advice and Support from Women Scientists?
(Springer Verlag, 2010-01)Supporting and advancing women’s science careers continues to be of interest to researchers, scientists, science funders, and universities. Similarly, professional advice and support networks are important to understanding ... -
The Micro-Geography of Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Littered Cigarette Packs in Chicago
(American Economic Association, 2010-05)This paper describes a simple but novel technique for assessing cigarette tax compliance: inspection of littered cigarette packs to determine whether legally required taxes have been paid. In addition to serving as a measure ... -
Organizational confidence: An empirical assessment of highly positive public managers
(Oxford University Press, 2010-07)There is a great deal of research investigating public servants’ perceptions of organizational problems (e.g. red tape, bureaucratic control); however, there is little research investigating public servants who have highly ... -
Personnel Flexibility and Red Tape in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: Distinctions due to Institutional and Political Accountability
(Oxford University Press, 2010-10)Academics and journalists have depicted government bureaucracies as particularly subject to administrative constraints, including the infamous red tape and personnel rules that sharply constrain pay, promotion and dismissal ... -
Toward "Flexible Uniformity"? Civil Service Reform, "Big Government Conservatism," and the Promise of the Intelligence Community Model
(SAGE Publications, 2010-12)As the Obama administration pieces together its own civil service reform program, it may find solutions to key reform challenges in an oft-overlooked Bush administration human resource management initiative in the national ... -
Organizational and individual determinants of patent production of academic scientists and engineers in the United States
(Oxford University Press, 2011-07)This article contributes to an important literature on the determinants of academic patenting. We develop and test a model that predicts how individual characteristics and organizational factors affect individual patenting ... -
Public Service in the Private Sector: Private Loan Originator Participation in a Public Mortgage Program
(Oxford University Press, 2011-07)In the United States, housing policies focused on assisting low-income families towards homeownership have resulted in the creation of publicly subsidized affordable mortgage programs. Private lenders and their employees ... -
Emerging Private Sector Roles in Urban Transport Case Study of an Innovative Telecom-GIS Solution in Bangalore
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-10)Our article examines the role of public-private innovation in the development of the Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS). BTIS is a successful example of new institutional arrangements that integrate perspectives, ... -
Regional industrial structure and agglomeration economies: An analysis of productivity in three manufacturing industries
(Elsevier, 2012-01)We investigate whether a more concentrated regional industrial structure - the dominance of a few large firms in a given industry in a region - limits agglomeration economies and ultimately diminishes the economic performance ... -
Electronic participation technologies and perceived outcomes for local government
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-05)U.S local governments are under increasing pressure to adopt electronic participation technologies to engage stakeholders in decision-making. The choice set of technologies and the ease with which they can be applied, has ...