2010
DOI: 10.1177/009102601003900301
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Reorganization or Political Smokescreen: The Incremental and Temporary Use of At-Will Employment in Mississippi State Government

Abstract: In recent years, Mississippi has temporarily suspended civil service protections for employees in some departments, reorganized those departments, and then reinstated civil service protection in those departments. State HR directors are surveyed to seek their opinions about at-will employment. Five survey items focus on the respondents' opinions concerning at-will employment as a managerial instrument; the responses are discussed and analyzed. We find that HR directors from smaller agencies and HR directors wh… Show more

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“…At-will reform in Mississippi is also investigated by Goodman and Mann (2010). They studied the perceptions and experiences of HR directors in the Mississippi state government's at-will employment system.…”
Section: What Do We Know From Research On At-will Employment?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At-will reform in Mississippi is also investigated by Goodman and Mann (2010). They studied the perceptions and experiences of HR directors in the Mississippi state government's at-will employment system.…”
Section: What Do We Know From Research On At-will Employment?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They examine the effect of civil service rules on bureaucratic performance and uncover a positive association between the two. A more recent empirical literature in public administration studies the effects of contemporary radical civil service reform in U.S. states (Bowman, Gertz, Gertz, & Williams, ; Bowman & West, ; Coggburn, ; Coggburn et al, ; Condrey & Battaglio, ; Goodman & Mann, ). The findings of this literature have been mixed, yielding few consistently robust findings linking civil service reform to objective measures of agency performance (Jordan & Battaglio, ).…”
Section: Related Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…These survey items were adopted from Jerrell Coggburn's (2006) EAW survey of Texas human resource (HR) directors and have been replicated elsewhere (Battaglio & Condrey, 2009;Coggburn et al, 2010;Goodman & French, 2011;Goodman & Mann, 2010). Table 3 reports the survey items and indexes that were created to measure theoretical constructs surrounding EAW.…”
Section: Eaw In Mississippi Sheriffs' Officesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Normative EAW theory argues that EAW makes employees more responsive to administrators' goals and priorities, motivates employee performance, and is part of modern government (Coggburn, 2006;Goodman & French, 2011;Goodman & Mann, 2010;Green et al, 2006). The thinking is that the fear of losing their jobs will lead employees to be more productive.…”
Section: Eaw In Mississippi Sheriffs' Officesmentioning
confidence: 99%