A public choice approach to motivating people in bureaucratic organizations

Article Abstract:

The problem of motivating people in organizations is examined from a public choice aspect, with assumptions about individual goals, discretion and preferences yielding several propositions suggesting ways in which managers of public employees can improve productivity through changes in incentive systems, work group size, job design, and personnel rotation patterns. Public choice is defined as the application of economic analysis to political behavior studies. Its use in the analysis of public employee motivation: suggests that cooperation among subordinates improves productivity only when the correct incentive system is used, leads to helpful cooperation among subordinates and discourages harmful cooperation, and, with incentive systems developed with careful consideration to several important characteristics of the work setting, can improve productivity.

Political aspects, Bureaucracy, Employee motivation, Public administration

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Organizational ecology: findings and implications

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Research related to organizational ecology is reviewed and analyzed to show its importance to the development of organizational research as a discipline. Organizational ecology research studies organizations by focusing on their origins, life cycles, the community structures in which they operate, the demographics of the organization and the larger community. This overview of 28 organizational ecology studies concludes that an ecological slant in the study of organizations is beneficial because it does not emphasize the variables of success and survival, as do most other forms of organization research, and because it places organization studies in a larger context, while providing understandable units of analysis.

Organizational change

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Managing complexity through consensus mapping: technology for the structuring of group decisions

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The importance of interaction during idea evaluation and synthesis is a main topic in much group decision-making research, but little attention has been paid to how the ideas are structured into organized and interrelated sets, even though such structuring is important in the reduction of the complexities that must be handled by the groups. Consensus mapping is a tool that can be used to structure these ideas, and the use of this technique is illustrated through a sample case. There are limitations to the application of this technique, however, some of which are described, and directions for future research are discussed.

Methods, Decision-making, Decision making, Decision-making, Group, Group decision making

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