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Tima Moldogaziev is assistant professor of public fi nance and public management at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on organizational behavior as it relates to empowerment, innovation, and performance in the public sector, contracting, and resource management. He also publishes on matters of subnational debt management, fi nancial intermediation and regulation, and municipal securities pricing and liquidity.

In this study, we examine the factors that predict whether an employee chooses to voluntarily leave the federal service.

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Employee empowerment programs have been widely adopted in the public sector as a way to improve organizational performance. Empowered employees improve performance largely by finding innovative ways of correcting errors in service delivery and redesigning work processes.Failure to encourage innovation can seriously undermine the effectiveness of empowerment programs. Based on Bowen and Lawler's conceptualization of employee empowerment as a multifaceted management approach, this study explores how different empowerment practices can be used to encourage U.S. federal government employees to seek out new and better ways of doing things. The empirical results show that while employee empowerment as an overall approach can increase encouragement to innovate, empowerment practices have divergent effects, and some may even discourage innovation.During the 1980s and 1990s, many American firms adopted employee empowerment programs to help maintain their competitive edge in the face of rising global competition (Bowen and Lawler

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His research focuses on the management of public organizations, intergovernmental relations, and the diffusion of policy innovations among governments. Practitioner Point• Increasing the proportion of the force that is black does not appear to be an effective strategy for reducing police-involved homicides of black citizens in most large cities. Americans by the police, thanks in part to a number of now well-known specifics. The most salient of these are that Officer Wilson was white; Michael Brown was black and unarmed; there was a lack of clear evidence that Mr. Brown was doing anything that would have justified his killing; videos of his body lying in the street were replayed repeatedly by media around the nation; and a grand jury failed to indict Officer Wilson for Mr. Brown ' s death.