The potential role of entrepreneurship In public sector organizations Is explored. Entrepreneurship Is conceptualized as a manageable process with underlying dimensions of Innovatlveness, risk-taking, and proactlveness. Unique characteristics of the public sector environment are examined, and a number of core principles and concepts from entrepreneurship are applied. Arguments against the application of these concepts are addressed. Results are reported of a survey of 152 public sector managers In South Africa. The findings suggest that these managers find entrepreneurship to be a salient concept for their organizations, and that the key obstacles to Its Implementation are very similar to those reported by corporate managers. Implications are drawn for theory and practice, and a number of suggestions are made for further research.
SummaryUsing agency theory and the stakeholder fairness concept as the conceptual base, this study confirmed three agency theory hypotheses about differential relationships between four sets of pay procedures and evaluations of pay, supervision and the employing organization. Education and seniority related variables were also found to moderate the relationships between procedural justice perceptions and evaluations of supervision and the employing organization. The study used a stratified random sample of 612 occupationally heterogeneous employees of a large County government in South Eastern United States. Results suggest that agency theory provides a parsimonious explanation for why justice matters in compensation decision making.
Instrumental and value‐expressive models of procedural justice were the basis of a field study with 612 employees of a large county government. The purpose was to identify the standards used to assess the fairness of pay procedures, and to determine the extent to which instrumental and value‐expressive models of procedural justice explain procedural assessments. Results support the inference that both instrumental and value‐expressive evaluation standards are used for fairness judgments of pay procedures. Results also indicate that the relevance of instrumental and value‐expressive standards is dependent upon the component of the pay process being evaluated and the criterion referent.
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