International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 12 Issue 1

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The experience of work in hospital settings and nurse’s perceived need or desire to look for A less stressful, more satisfying job

B.H. Rountree, Russell Porter

Work overload is an important and often singular objective for organizational interventions targeting nurse satisfaction and turnover in hospital settings around the world. The…

“Born again“ governmentality: the faith-based initiative as administrative agent

Chad B. Newswander, Lynita K. Newswander

A careful study demonstrates that President Bush has implemented the faith-based initiative as a method of governmentality, one which appears to be biased toward Christianity…

The construction of governance

Mark Bevir

This paper offers a constructivist theory of governance. It begins by challenging rational choice and institutionalist accounts for neglecting meanings. If we are to take meanings…

A house of mirrors: administration and reality

R. McGreggor Cawley

This essay explores a possible anti-essentialist strategy for public administration. The argument presented is twofold. First, the concepts of objective, socially constructed, and…

The normalized bureaucrat

Kathleen A. McGinn

This article uses Michel Foucaultʼs theoretical work in examining relations of power within the unique context of street-level bureaucracies (Lipsky, 1980). Through Foucaultʼs…

The deformation of decentered subjects: foucault and postmodern public administration

Jennifer L. Eagan

In Postmodern Public Administration: Toward Discourse (1995), Fox and Miller call for a postmodern discourse that can radicalize the reformist tendencies in public administration…

Cover of International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior

ISSN:

1093-4537

Online date, start – end:

1998

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Associate Professor Davide Secchi