Leadership and Meaningful Work in the Public Sector

There have been many important studies on leadership in the public administration discipline; however, scholarly inquiry still lags behind related disciplines such as psychology and business administration. This article helps fill that gap by analyzing the role that public leaders play in making wor...

Celý popis

Uložené v:
Podrobná bibliografia
Vydané v:Public administration review Ročník 73; číslo 6; s. 859 - 868
Hlavní autori: Tummers, Lars G., Knies, Eva
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Hoboken, USA Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2013
Wiley Subscription Services
American Society for Public Administration
Predmet:
Academic disciplines
Alienation
Clinical outcomes
Education
Educational enrichment
Employee involvement
Employee management relations
Error rates
Health care
Health care industry
Health Care Services
Health education
Health outcomes
Health services
Job satisfaction
Leader-member exchange
Leaders
Leadership
Local Government
Management
Meaning
Mental health services
Occupational Roles
Organizational commitment
Personal empowerment
Political leadership
Psychology
Public Administration
Public Sector
Roles
Work
United States > US
ISSN:0033-3352, 1540-6210
On-line prístup:Získať plný text
Tagy: Pridať tag
Žiadne tagy, Buďte prvý, kto otaguje tento záznam!
Popis
Shrnutí:There have been many important studies on leadership in the public administration discipline; however, scholarly inquiry still lags behind related disciplines such as psychology and business administration. This article helps fill that gap by analyzing the role that public leaders play in making work more meaningful for their employees, which, in turn, has a positive influence on employee job outcomes. Specifically, the authors analyze the mediating role of work meaningfulness in the relationships between leader-member exchange and organizational commitment, work effort, and work-to-family enrichment. Samples from education, health care, and local government are used. Results show that leadership strongly influences work meaningfulness, which, in turn, influences job outcomes. In addition, the impact and extent of leadership and work meaningfulness are higher in health care and education than in local government. The results emphasize the importance of leadership and meaningful work in the public sector.
Bibliografia:ark:/67375/WNG-1QB84Q99-B
istex:EB0AA3E5867F332098878D7F425859E3B45068EC
ArticleID:PUAR12138
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-1
content type line 14
ObjectType-Article-2
content type line 23
ObjectType-Article-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
ISSN:0033-3352
1540-6210
DOI:10.1111/puar.12138