TY - GEN A1 - Kroll, Alexander A1 - Vogel, Dominik T1 - The PSM-leadership fit BT - a model of performance information use T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - This article examines the use of performance information by public managers. It conceptualizes purposeful data use as a type of extra-role behaviour which requires additional effort on the part of the managers and which is not extrinsically rewarded. The article sheds light on one potential antecedent of performance information use – the motivation of the users. It argues that we can observe high levels of data use if managers driven by public service motivation (PSM) work under transformational leaders. Using a needs-supply perspective on supervisors and followers we suggest that there is a PSM-leadership fit which fosters the performance of this extra-role behaviour. The article is based on data from German local government and its findings contribute to the literatures on PSM as well as on performance management. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 77 KW - Public Service Motivation KW - Performance Information Use KW - Leadership KW - Transformational Leadership KW - Person-Organization Fit Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-100853 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 77 ER - TY - THES A1 - Muriu, Abraham Rugo T1 - Performance management in Kenya's public service T1 - Leistungsmanagement in Kenias öffentlichem Dienst BT - a study on performance information use BT - eine Studie über Leistungsinformationen N2 - This study was inspired by the desire to contribute to literature on performance management from the context of a developing country. The guiding research questions were: How do managers use performance information in decision making? Why do managers use performance information the way they do? The study was based on theoretical strands of neo-patrimonialism and new institutionalism. The nature of the inquiry informed the choice of a qualitative case study research design. Data was assembled through face-to-face interviews, some observations, and collection of documents from managers at the levels of the directorate, division, and section/units. The managers who were the focus of this study are current or former staff members of the state departments in Kenya’s national Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries as well as from departments responsible for coordination of performance related reforms. The findings of this study show that performance information is regularly produced but its use by managers varies. Examples of use include preparing reports to external bodies, making decisions for resource re-allocation, making recommendations for rewards and sanctions, and policy advisory. On categorizing the forms of use as passive, purposeful, political or perverse, evidence shows that they overlap and that some of the forms are so closely related that it is difficult to separate them empirically. On what can explain the forms of use established, four factors namely; political will and leadership; organizational capacity; administrative culture; and managers’ interests and attitudes, were investigated. While acknowledging the interrelatedness and even overlapping of the factors, the study demonstrates that there is explanatory power to each though with varying depth and scope. The study thus concludes that: Inconsistent political will and leadership for performance management reforms explain forms of use that are passive, political and perverse. Low organizational capacity could best explain passive and some limited aspects of purposeful use. Informal, personal and competitive administrative culture is associated with purposeful use and mostly with political and perverse use. Limited interest and apprehensive attitude are best associated with passive use. The study contributes to the literature particularly in how institutions in a context of neo-patrimonialism shape performance information use. It recommends that further research is necessary to establish how neo-patrimonialism positively affects performance oriented reforms. This is interesting in particular given the emerging thinking on pockets of effectiveness and developmental patrimonialism. This is important since it is expected that performance related reforms will continue to be advocated in developing countries in the foreseeable future. N2 - Diese Studie wurde von dem Wunsch inspiriert einen Beitrag zu der Performance Management Literatur zu leisten und zwar aus dem Kontext eines Entwicklungslandes. Die Fragen, die diese Forschung geleitet haben waren: Wie nutzen Manager Performance Information in der Entscheidungsfindung? Warum nutzen Manager Performance Informationen auf eine bestimmte Weise? Die Studie basiert auf theoretischen Strömungen des Neo-Patrimonialismus und des Neo-Institutionalismus. Die Art der Untersuchung und Fragestellung verlangten nach einem qualitativen Forschungsdesign und einer Fallstudie. Die Datenerhebung stützte sich auf Interviews, Beobachtungen und Dokumente von 50 Managern auf Direktoratsebene, Abteilungsebene und Referatsebene. Die Manager, die im Fokus dieser Untersuchung standen, sind derzeitige und ehemalige Mitarbeiter in Kenias Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Viehzucht und Fischerei, sowie der Abteilung zuständig für die Koordination von Performancebezogenen Reformen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie zeigen, dass Performanceinformationen regelmäßig produziert, jedoch unterschiedlich genutzt werden. Die Erstellung von Berichten für externe Stellen, Entscheidungen zur Ressourcenverteilung, Empfehlungen für Belohnungen und Sanktionen, sowie für Richtlinien sind Beispiele für die Nutzung von Performanceinformationen. Eine Kategorisierung dieser Nutzungsarten in passiv, intendiert, politisch oder pervertiert, zeigt dass diese überlappen und zum Teil so sehr miteinander verbunden sind, dass sie nur sehr schwer empirisch zu trennen sind. Hinsichtlich der Einflussfaktoren auf die Nutzung hat diese Studie vier Faktoren untersucht: Politischer Wille und Führungsverhalten; Kapazität der Organisation; administrative Kultur; Interessen und Einstellungen der Führungskräfte. Obwohl diese Faktoren zusammenhängen und sogar überlappen zeigt diese Studie, dass jeder einzelne Faktor Erklärungskraft besitzt, wenn auch zu unterschiedlichem Grad. Aus dieser Studie lässt sich folgern, dass inkonsistenter politischer Wille und Führungsverhalten in Bezug auf Reformen des Performance Managements passive, politische und pervertierte Formen der Nutzung erklären. Niedrige Kapazität der Organisation erklärt passive Nutzung sowie Teilaspekte von intendierter Nutzung. Eine informale, persönliche und kompetitive Administrationskultur ist verknüpft mit intendierter Nutzung, hauptsächlich aber mit politischer und pervertierter Nutzung. Eingeschränktes Interesse und ablehnende Einstellung wird mit passiver Nutzung in Verbindung gebracht. Diese Studie trägt zu Literatur bei, die sich damit befasst, inwieweit Institutionen in einem von Neo-Patrimonialismus geprägten Kontext die Nutzung von Performanceinformation beeinflusst. Weitere Forschung ist notwendig, um zu untersuchen wie Neo-Patrimonialismus performanceorientierte Reformen positiv beeinflusst. Dies ist besonders in Anbetracht von Nischen der Effektivität und Entwicklungspatrimonialismus bedeutsam. Dies ist besonders relevant, da davon ausgegangen werden kann, dass Performance-bezogene Reformen auch in Zukunft weiter in Entwicklungsländern verbreitet werden. KW - performance management KW - performance information use KW - Kenya public service KW - Leistungsmanagement KW - Leistungsinformationen verwenden KW - Kenias öffentlicher Dienst Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-403281 ER - TY - THES A1 - Wack, Christian T1 - Acceptance criteria as part of the German energy turnaround T1 - Akzeptanzkriterien als Teil der deutschen Energiewende BT - a contribution to the implementation of and citizen participation in the major planning project “Suedlink” BT - ein Beitrag zur Planung und Durchführung der Windstromleitung SuedLink unter Berücksichtigung der Bürgerbeteiligung N2 - Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine Fallstudie zum Netzausbauprojekt „Suedlink“. Sie gliedert sich demnach in vier wesentliche Abschnitte: 1. In einem theoretischen Teil werden die für diese Arbeit wichtigen Theorien der „Sozialen Akzeptanz“ nach Wüstenhagen et al. (2007), der „Schritte der Partizipation“ nach Münnich (2014) und der Governance-Theorie nach Benz und Dose (2011) erläutert. 2. In einem methodischen Teil werden die für diese Arbeit relevanten Methoden diskutiert und kritisch erläutert. 3. In einem qualitativ-empirischen Teil werden die Informationen der Experteninterviews ausgewertet und anhand der vorgestellten Theorien eingeordnet. In dem vierten und letzten Teil der Arbeit wird eine empirisch-quantitative Analyse der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz gegenüber Südlink vorgenommen. In dieser Arbeit soll mithilfe qualitativer und quantitativer Methoden zwei Fragen geklärt werden. 1. Welche Governance-Aspekte waren für eine gesetzliche Priorität von Erdkabeln im Ausbau von Hochspannungsübertragungsgleichstromleitungen entscheidend? Hierfür wurden intensive Dokumentenanalysen und verschiedene Experteninterviews durchgeführt. 2. Die zentrale Fragestellung dieser Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwiefern lokale und individuelle Faktoren die Akzeptanz von Suedlink beeinflussen. Hierbei ist interessant zu sehen, welchen Einfluss der gesetzliche Erdkabelvorrang bei der Akzeptanzbildung der Bevölkerung gegenüber Suedlink gespielt hat. Für die Beantwortung wurde ein Online-survey konzipiert, welcher zwischen März und Juli 2016 über Bürgerinitiativen, Landräte und soziale Netzwerke verteilt wurde. Nach Abschluss der Datenerhebung wurden dieser unter Verwendung deskriptiv-quantitativer Methoden ausgewertet. Die Auswertung der Umfrage zeigt auf, das Erdkabel alleine keine nennenswerte Akzeptanz schaffen (vgl. dazu Menges und Beyer, 2013). Vielmehr stehen individuell und lokale Faktoren und Kriterien im Vordergrund der Beurteilung. Zum Beispiel spielt die Qualität der Partizipation und Einbindung der Bürger sowie die Nähe zur Erdverkabelung und die finanzielle Mehrbelastung eine Rolle bei der Beurteilung von Erdkabeln. Zudem wird deutlich, das Befragte aus Bürgerinitiativen wesentlich kritischer gegen Suedlink allgemein und gegenüber Erdkabeln im speziellen sind. Ferner ist signifikant, dass Eigenheimbesitzer jegliche Bauform ablehnen. N2 - The present work is a case study contributing to the major planning project “Suedlink”. It is structured as follows: first, in a theoretical part, mandatory theories of social acceptance (Wüstenhagen et al., 2007), steps of participation (Münnich, 2014), and the governance theory (Benz and Dose, 2011) are elaborated. Secondly, the relevant methods are discussed. Thirdly, in a qualitative analytical part, the information that were gathered from the expert interviews are analyzed with the use of the aforementioned theories. In the fourth place, an empirical quantitative analysis of data regarding the public acceptance towards Suedlink is presented. In this case study, with the use of qualitative and quantitative methods, two questions are answered: first, which governance aspects were relevant for the priority use of underground cables for the construction of high voltage direct current transmission lines? For this question, intensive document analysis and different expert interviews were conducted. Secondly, the central question of the present work addresses the question whether local or/and individual factors affect the public acceptance towards SüdLink. Here, in particular, it is interesting to analyze if the priority use of underground cables affected the people’s acceptance towards SuedLink. In order to respond to both questions, an online survey was conducted among citizen initiatives, district administrators, and individuals in social media during March till July 2016. Thereafter, the data was analyzed with the use of descriptive quantitative methods. The data shows, that underground cables not necessarily increase public acceptance (see also Menges and Beyer, 2013). On the contrary, individual and local criteria were relevant for the survey respondents. For example criteria such as the quality of participation, distance between home and transmission lines, and the additional financial burden (taxes, higher prices for electricity) were important for the evaluation. In addition, survey respondents who participated in citizen initiatives were more critical against the priority use of underground cables and SuedLink in general. Likewise, residential homeowners rejected every form of transmission lines. KW - Suedlink KW - Südlink KW - Netzausbau KW - Bürgerbeteiligung KW - Energiewende KW - Partizipation KW - soziale Akzeptanz KW - Großprojekte KW - Suedlink KW - Südlink KW - transmission grid KW - citizen participation KW - energy transition KW - energy turnaround KW - social acceptance KW - high-voltage direct current transmission lines Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395173 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schedler, Kuno A1 - Proeller, Isabella T1 - New Public Management T3 - UTB ; 2132 N2 - New Public Management hat in den vergangenen Jahren die Ansätze und das Verständnis moderner Verwaltungsführung maßgebend beeinflusst. Stossrichtungen und Grundanliegen dieses Modells wurden zum Teil in die Führungspraxis übernommen und stellen in vielerlei Hinsicht nach wie vor Entwicklungsziele und Leitlinien für die Steuerung und Führung der öffentlichen Verwaltung dar. NPM soll die öffentliche Verwaltung an geforderte Neuausrichtungen anpassen und effizienter gestalten. Ziele und Gestaltung der öffentlichen Verwaltung unter NPM und die dazu notwendigen Instrumente werden in diesem Lehrbuch umfassend und strukturiert erläutert. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf die Veränderungslinien und -ansätze für die Verwaltungsführung gelegt. Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-3-8252-3638-0 PB - Haupt Verlag CY - Bern ET - 5., korrigierte Aufl. ER - TY - THES A1 - Schumacher, Reinhard T1 - Adam Smith, foreign trade and economic development BT - essays in historiographic revision Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Vogel, Dominik A1 - Kroll, Alexander T1 - The Stability and Change of PSM-related Values across Time BT - Testing Theoretical Expectations against Panel Data N2 - This article is a response to calls in prior research that we need more longitudi-nal analyses to better understand the foundations of PSM and related prosocial values. There is wide agreement that it is crucial for theory-building but also for tailoring hiring practices and human resource development programs to sort out whether PSM-related values are stable or developable. The article summarizes existent theoretical expecta-tions, which turn out to be partially conflicting, and tests them against multiple waves of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study which covers a time period of sixteen years. It finds that PSM-related values of public employees are stable rather than dynamic but tend to increase with age and decrease with organizational member-ship. The article also examines cohort effects, which have been neglected in prior work, and finds moderate evidence that there are differences between those born during the Second World War and later generations. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 79 KW - Public Service Motivation Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397783 ER - TY - GEN ED - Schwab, Christian ED - Bouckaert, Geert ED - Kuhlmann, Sabine T1 - The future of local government in Europe BT - lessons from research and practice in 31 countries T2 - Modernisierung des öffentlichen Sektors N2 - kein abstract vorhanden T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 93 Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-407661 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Bouckaert, Geert ED - Kuhlmann, Sabine ED - Schwab, Oliver T1 - Current and Future Trends in European Public Sector Research T2 - Starke Kommunen - wirksame Verwaltung : Fortschritte und Fallstricke der internationalen Verwaltungs- und Kommunalforschung N2 - Emmanuel Kant asked three important questions which will always be with us: What can we know? What should we do? What may we hope for? These three key existentialist questions are, of course, also relevant for a reflection on the future of Public Administration: What can we know, as researchers in the field of Public Administration, about our object of public administration? What should we do as researchers and teachers to make sure we remain part of a solution and to guarantee that we are ahead of reality and its future problems? What kind of improvement (or not) may we hope for a public sector in an increasingly complex society? This chapter tries to explore some possible answers to these three important questions for our field of Public Administration. The background is our common project about ‘European Perspectives for Public Administration’ (EPPA), which we hope to establish as a continuous dialogue and discourse in the context of European Public Administration and the ‘European Group for Public Administration’ (EGPA). Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-658-17134-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17135-3_4 SP - 43 EP - 61 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Wayenberg, Ellen T1 - Institutional impact assessment in multi-level systems: conceptualizing decentralization effects from a comparative perspective JF - International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration N2 - Comparative literature on institutional reforms in multi-level systems proceeds from a global trend towards the decentralization of state functions. However, there is only scarce knowledge about the impact that decentralization has had, in particular, upon the sub-central governments involved. How does it affect regional and local governments? Do these reforms also have unintended outcomes on the sub-central level and how can this be explained? This article aims to develop a conceptual framework to assess the impacts of decentralization on the sub-central level from a comparative and policy-oriented perspective. This framework is intended to outline the major patterns and models of decentralization and the theoretical assumptions regarding de-/re-centralization impacts, as well as pertinent cross-country approaches meant to evaluate and compare institutional reforms. It will also serve as an analytical guideline and a structural basis for all the country-related articles in this Special Issue. Points for practitioners Decentralization reforms are approved as having a key role to play in the attainment of ‘good governance’. Yet, there is also the enticement on the part of state governments to offload an ever-increasing amount of responsibilities to, and overtask, local levels of government, which can lead to increasing performance disparities within local sub-state jurisdictions. Against this background, the article provides a conceptual framework to assess reform impacts from a comparative perspective. The analytical framework can be used by practitioners to support their decisions about new decentralization strategies or necessary adjustments regarding ongoing reform measures. KW - administrative reform KW - comparison KW - coordination KW - effectiveness KW - efficiency KW - impact assessment KW - institutional reform KW - local government Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852315583194 SN - 0020-8523 SN - 1461-7226 VL - 82 IS - 2 SP - 233 EP - 272 PB - Sage CY - London ER - TY - THES A1 - Radtke, Ina T1 - Organizing immigration BT - German ministerial bureaucracies in a dynamic policy field N2 - Immigration constitutes a dynamic policy field with – often quite unpredictable – dynamics. This is based on immigration constituting a ‘wicked problem’ meaning that it is characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity. Due to the dynamics in the policy field, expectations towards public administrations often change. Following neo-institutionalist theory, public administrations depend on meeting the expectations in the organizational field in order to maintain legitimacy as the basis for, e.g., resources and compliance of stakeholders. With the dynamics in the policy field, expectations might change and public administrations consequently need to adapt in order to maintain or repair the then threatened legitimacy. If their organizational legitimacy is threatened by a perception of structures and processes being inadequate for changed expectations, an ‘institutional crisis’ unfolds. However, we know little about ministerial bureaucracies’ structural reactions to such crucial momentums and how this effects the quest for coordination within policy-making. Overall, the dissertation thus links to both policy analysis and public administration research and consists of five publications. It asks: How do structures in ministerial bureaucracies change in the context of institutional crises? And what effect do these changes have on ministerial coordination? The dissertation hereby focusses on the above described dynamic policy field of immigration in Germany in the period from 2005 to 2017 and pursues three objectives: 1) to identify the context and impulse for changes in the structures of ministerial bureaucracies, 2) to describe respective changes with regard to their organizational structures, and 3) to identify their effect on coordination. It hereby compares and contrasts institutional crises by incremental change and shock as well as changes and effects at federal and Länder level which allows a comprehensive answer to both of the research questions. Theoretically, the dissertation follows neo-institutionalist theory with a particular focus on changes in organizational structures, coordination and crisis management. Methodologically, it follows a comparative design. Each article (except for the literature review), focusses on ministerial bureaucracies at one governmental level (federal or Länder) and on an institutional crisis induced by either an incremental process or a shock. Thus, responses and effects can be compared and contrasted across impulses for institutional crises and governmental levels. Overall, the dissertation follows a mixed methods approach with a majority of qualitative single and small-n case studies based on document analysis and semi-structured interviews. Additionally, two articles use quantitative methods as they best suited the respective research question. The rather explorative nature of these two articles however fits to the overall interpretivist approach of the dissertation. Overall, the dissertation’s core argument is: Within the investigation period, varying dynamics and thus impulses for institutional crises took place in the German policy field of immigration. Respectively, expectations by stakeholders on how the politico-administrative system should address the policy problem changed. Ministerial administrations at both the federal and Länder level adapted to these expectations in order to maintain, or regain respectively, organizational legitimacy. The administration hereby referred to well-known recipes of structural changes. Institutional crises do not constitute fields of experimentation. The new structures had an immediate effect on ministerial coordination, with respect to both the horizontal and vertical dimension. Yet, they did not mean a comprehensive change of the system in place. The dissertation thus challenges the idea of the toppling effect of crises and rather shows that adaptability and persistence of public administrations constitute two sides of the same coin. KW - Ministerial bureaucracy KW - coordination KW - institutional crisis KW - immigration KW - migration KW - refugee crisis KW - Ministerialbürokratie KW - Koordination KW - institutionelle Krise KW - Immigration KW - Migration KW - Flüchtlingskrise Y1 - 2020 ER -