International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 18 Issue 1

Addressing procedural bias in municipal planning governance: A case for incorporating citizen participation within technical advisory committees

Stephen Kleinschmit

This essay presents models of multiparty negotiation as a means to compare the conventional public meetings format of planning to a preliminary process, the technical advisory…

Symposium on the changing bureaucratic compact part II

Heather Getha-Taylor, Ed Gibson

Fiscally driven compensation reform and threats to human capital capacity in the public sector

Jared J. Llorens

Compensation systems serve a critical role in strategic human resources management, and over the past twenty-five years, there have been an increasing number of public sector…

Training top civil servants in turbulent environments: An ongoing struggle for curriculum

Alexis A. Halley

This article provides a historical literature review and exploratory descriptive case study of one U.S. Federal agencyʼs efforts to design an appropriate government-wide…

Holding employees accountable for the accomplishment of organizational goals: The case of the u.s. federal government

Ellen V. Rubin

Aligned appraisal systems explicitly hold employees accountable for contributing to the accomplishment of organizational goals. Furthermore, appraisal alignment is consistent with…

Retaining public value and public law value in outsourcing

Christine L. Rush, Nicholas C. Zingale

We argue that the proliferation of governance in the public sector has raised questions regarding individual constitutional rights. While some proclaim cost savings and…