Birds of a Feather? The Effect of Organizational Value Congruence on the Relationship Between Ministries and Quangos

Thiel, Sandra van; Wal, Zeger van der

doi:10.1007/s11115-010-0112-9

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“…James (2003, p. 25) argues that public managers at ministries are concerned to work on policy problems in close proximity to political principals, rather than on routine tasks with low discretion. As a result of separating the policy making and implementation, agency staff loses its proximity to political power and they feel impeded to pursue societal impact (Van Thiel & Van der Wal, 2010). The separation between ministry and agency, then, impedes agency staff to take part in policy formulation and reduces their discretion.…”

Section: Organizational Focus On Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Creating Semiautonomous Agencies Affects Staff Satisfaction

Overman

2019

Public Performance & Management Review

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Structural reforms such as the creation of autonomous agencies are a widely heralded solution for a multitude of problems in the public sector. These reforms have effects on public employees. This article shows how the structural disaggregation of ministries into autonomous agencies affects staff satisfaction with the organization. The article discusses three cases, where Dutch public organizations were either disaggregated from a ministry or reaggregated to the ministry. These structural reforms constitute a quasiexperimental setting where effects on agency staff and parent ministry staff are compared. In one case, creating the agency led to a decrease in staff satisfaction with the organization as compared to the staff that remained within the ministry. A second case showed that these negative effects linger and can last for more than eight years. An inverse organizational change-reaggregation-caused inverse effects: increasing satisfaction with the organization.

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Section: Organizational Focus On Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Creating Semiautonomous Agencies Affects Staff Satisfaction

Overman

2019

Public Performance & Management Review

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“…For instance, managers in both sectors can design socialization processes such as formal training programs or other activities that provide opportunities for employees to understand and internalize organizational values (Chatman ). Managers can also make an effort in building organizational trust, which is closely related to work autonomy (Langfred ) and value congruence (Van Thiel and Van der Wal ). When there is a high level of trust between management and employees, employees may be granted more work autonomy, which allows more opportunities for them to experience how organizational values are actualized and advanced through their work activities.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is There a Nonprofit Advantage? Examining the Impact of Institutional Context on Individual–Organizational Value Congruence

Peng

Pandey

2015

Public Administration Review

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This article addresses an important question: do nonprofit organizations have an advantage over public organizations in fostering individual–organizational value congruence? The authors argue that nonprofit organizations do have an advantage. This is because institutional differences between the two sectors become manifest through nonprofit status and the extent of external control, which influences the organization and the individual. External control and sector status (nonprofit versus public) determine the extent of centralization, organizational goal ambiguity, and work autonomy. In turn, these three organizational characteristics shape individual–organizational value congruence. Although the results provide support for the nonprofit advantage thesis, it is worth noting that organizational effects on individual–organizational value congruence are more powerful. Indeed, the results suggest that managerial and organizational actions, compared with sector status, are more likely to influence individual–organizational value congruence.

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“…de Graaf and van der Wal (de Graaf & van der Wal, 2008:84) posit that values are “qualities that are appreciated for contributing to or constituting what is good, right, beautiful, or worthy of praise and admiration”. Values establish standards of behaviour and action that enable the organization to carry out its mission effectively (Kernaghan, 2003; van der Wal, De Graaf, & Lasthuizen, 2008; van Thiel & van der Wal, 2010). According to de Graaf and Van der Wal (2008:84), “values are hard to define and hard to locate; they are neither here nor there … values never come just by themselves; they never appear unaccompanied”.…”

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Public service ethics, values and spirituality in developing and transitional countries: Challenges and opportunities

Hossain

Kumasey

Rees

et al. 2020

Public Admin & Development

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Summary Concerns over the unethical conduct of leaders and public officials have led to the renaissance of interest in public service ethics and values. Although national and organizational systems and structures have been instituted to either eradicate or ameliorate unethical behaviours in the public service of countries, the practice still persists with devastating consequences. As one way forward, spirituality has been touted as having the potential of stimulating the moral thoughts of individuals who are dealing with ethical issues, thereby reducing unethical behaviour and generating positive organizational behaviour. Drawing from the perspectives of developing and transitional countries, this special issue empirically examines the extent to which ethics, values and spirituality can reduce unethical behaviours.

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Birds of a Feather? The Effect of Organizational Value Congruence on the Relationship Between Ministries and Quangos

Cited by 37 publications

References 46 publications

How Creating Semiautonomous Agencies Affects Staff Satisfaction

How Creating Semiautonomous Agencies Affects Staff Satisfaction

Is There a Nonprofit Advantage? Examining the Impact of Institutional Context on Individual–Organizational Value Congruence

Public service ethics, values and spirituality in developing and transitional countries: Challenges and opportunities

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