Motivational Programs and Productivity Improvement in Times of Limited Resources

Greiner, John M.

doi:10.4324/9780429497964-16

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“…Choosing between different measures to cut personnel costs is markedly delicate, as during crisis public administration needs to be on a particularly high level (Drechsler 2011). It is conjectured that cutbacks in personnel-related measures lead to an unsupportive work environment due to increased job and pay insecurity, loss of confidence and decline in morale (Greenhalgh and McKersie 1980;Greiner 1986).…”

Section: Central Decisions Decentralized Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Central Decisions, Decentralized Solutions: Comparing the Implications of Central Cutback Policy for the Agency Level in Estonia and Latvia

Savi

Cepilovs

2016

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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The paper investigates the implications of governmental cutback strategies related to the recent fiscal crisis at agency level in Estonia and Latvia. For this purpose, the article applies a comparative case study approach, through a purposeful selection of five agencies -three in Estonia and two in Latvia -to map the maximum possible variation of before-and-after effects of the crisis on organizational responses and individual-level coping. The selected agencies represent a range of regulatory and social policy domains directly and severely affected by the crisis through budget cuts and increased demand for services, and therefore most affected by the crisis. The study demonstrates that the budget cuts imposed by the cabinets of both countries and widely praised internationally actually left agency-level actors in an extremely difficult situation. Centrally imposed across-the-board cuts resulted in diverse public service gaps, leading to a range of hardships for the citizens, and therefore turning out to be neither equal nor fair for the target groups. The study concludes that centrally decided cutbacks shifted the burden to street-level bureaucrats, who in turn took on the role of key policy actors by ensuring the delivery of public services during the fiscal crisis.

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Section: Central Decisions Decentralized Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%