Contingent Professionalism: Bureaucratic Mobility and the Adoption of Water Conservation Rates

Teodoro, Manuel P.

doi:10.1093/jopart/mup012

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“…The Colgate research team also will develop a series of case-study profiles of individual CEOs. Past research shows that leaders' engagement in interpersonal networks with professional peers enhances learning and innovation (Balla 2001;Lubell & Fulton 2008;Teodoro 2010), and our survey results affirm that CEOs frequently reach out to professional peers at other utilities. In-depth case studies of CEOs will help illustrate CEOs' varied approaches to the operational, organizational, financial, and political challenges in ways that will resonate with current and future utility executives.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 78%

Who Are Our CEOs? A Profile of American Utilities' Executive Leaders

Teodoro¹,

Carey²,

Goldberg³

et al. 2012

proc water environ fed

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This paper reports the initial findings of Water Utility Executive Leadership for the 21 st Century, the first comprehensive study of American utility CEOs. Sponsored by the Water Research Foundation and Colgate University, this study applies the state-of-the-art organizational research methods to conduct an interview-based survey of utility CEOs. Data from this survey are used to develop a descriptive summary of CEOs' demographics, education, professional backgrounds, and behaviors. Together, these data offer a snapshot of American utilities' executive leadership, revealing who utility CEOs are. The study also offers a baseline for comparison in future research. This research will have important, industry-wide implications for the recruitment and development of utility leaders today and in the future. This paper gives UMC attendees the first look at the preliminary results of this study, which will be fully documented in a comprehensive report late in 2012.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 78%

Who Are Our CEOs? A Profile of American Utilities' Executive Leaders

Teodoro¹,

Carey²,

Goldberg³

et al. 2012

proc water environ fed

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“…Conversely, belief that the water utility and others in the community are actively reducing their water use increases the likelihood of conserving water (Jorgensen et al, 2009). Similarly, beliefs that household water use will not make an appreciable impact on water resources, that water conservation methods are not reliable or effective, and lack of knowledge of water usage are major factors influencing household water conservation (Teodoro, 2009). Trust in government has also been suggested as a possible driver of water conservation, and has been suggested for future research (Jorgensen et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Influence of Water Attitudes, Perceptions, and Learning Preferences on Water-Conserving Actions

Adams

Allen

Borisova

et al. 2013

Natural Sciences Education

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Water conservation is an important natural resource issue, and the focus of a number of educational and extension programs. Inherent in many programs is the causal link between water facts and conservation behaviors that affect water quality and/or quantity. This article interprets the results of a survey on attitudes and perceptions of water resources (n = 2226) from nine states (Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas). The goal of the survey was to assess attitudes and perceptions of water supply, water quality, and factors affecting them. We assess the influence of attitudes and perceptions regarding the environment, water resources, governance, information sources, and demographics on water conservation behaviors. Specifically, we assess the role that these factors play in indoor and outdoor water‐conserving actions indicated by respondents. We find several statistically significant non‐knowledge factors that drive water conservation: perceived importance of water resources and their preferred use; preferred learning modes and information sources; interest in certain types of water issues; views on governance; general environmental attitudes; and demographics. For example, preferring passive learning modes (e.g., reading a newspaper article) negatively influences outdoor conservation, while preferring to learn by taking action (e.g., training) positively influences both indoor and outdoor conservation. These results highlight the importance of a number of non‐knowledge factors in water program‐related behavior change, and suggest a number of factors that could inform targeted approaches to influence differing audiences.

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“…Having a council‐manager form of government also increases policy response to water management, which may reflect the professionalization of water management and bureaucratization of service production (Lach, Ingram, & Rayner, ; Teodoro, ). As with social inclusion, the results also consistently show that larger cities give more policy response to watershed management.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Issue Proximity and Policy Response in Local Governments

Hughes

Runfola

Cormier

2018

Review of Policy Research

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The policy choices of local governments are highly relevant today, but we know relatively little about how or when local governments choose to respond to a given issue and why this might vary between policy areas. A key variant for local governments is the proximity of policy issues: they are engaged in solving local, regional, and global problems. Using evidence from the United States on the policy issues of social inclusion, watershed management, and climate change, we demonstrate that the drivers of policy response vary with the proximity of the problem. When an issue is highly local, policy response is influenced by problem severity; when an issue is global, policy response is influenced by local political leanings; and when an issue is regional, policy response is driven by the actions of neighboring and state level governments. Local governments consider different factors and respond to different cues when engaging with different types of policy issues. Our findings provide a more nuanced understanding of sustainability policy adoption in local governments, and further our understanding of the domaincontingent nature of policy response in local governments and the structuring role of problem proximity.

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Contingent Professionalism: Bureaucratic Mobility and the Adoption of Water Conservation Rates

Cited by 40 publications

References 45 publications

Who Are Our CEOs? A Profile of American Utilities' Executive Leaders

Who Are Our CEOs? A Profile of American Utilities' Executive Leaders

The Influence of Water Attitudes, Perceptions, and Learning Preferences on Water-Conserving Actions

Issue Proximity and Policy Response in Local Governments

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