{"title":"Perceptions of social performance in public enterprises and early job seekers’ intentions to apply","authors":"S. Kim, S. Lee","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1848371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1848371","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article provides experimental evidence of the relationship between perceptions of social performance (SP) in public enterprises and early job seekers’ intentions to apply for a job. Data were drawn from 297 undergraduate students who were asked to express their perceptions of photographic slides showing various outcomes of SP in public enterprises. The results found that (1) mere observations of SP changed the job seekers’ perception of public enterprises, (2) the changed perceptions affected their intentions to apply for a job, and (3) not all dimensions of SP were equally important to them. SP related to ethical responsibility appeared to have a greater effect on their intentions to apply for a job than other dimensions of SP. The theoretical and practical implications of these experimental findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1848371","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48905707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Street-level bureaucrats and the (in)effectiveness of malaria control in Punjab","authors":"Mohsin Bashir, Kainat Shakil","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1846879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1846879","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research sheds light on various environmental factors that lead to different decisions regarding the implementation of health policy by street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in similar districts. The paper explores the factors behind different incidence of malaria in two districts of South Punjab-Pakistan that possessed similar characteristics, focusing on the actions of frontline workers and policymakers. Based on semi-structured interviews with frontend workers, observation of health units from the two districts and review of policy documents on epidemic control programs, we find that SLBs practice lesser discretion when they perceive the policy issue as grave and as policymakers increase surveillance of SLBs, their discretion decreases. We also find that when SLBs have higher room for discretion, they choose convenient behaviors that provide them quicker results.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1846879","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45963514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interplay of organizational identification, regulatory focused job crafting and job satisfaction in management of emerging job demands: evidence from public sector enterprises","authors":"S. Sameer, Pushpendra Priyadarshi","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1848024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1848024","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Public sector enterprises (PSEs) face market complexities like any other commercial organization. To ensure sustenance of such enterprises, effective management of emerging job demands by their employees is crucial. Acknowledging relevance of this issue, the present study examines the role of employees’ organizational identification, as a job resource, in promotion- and prevention-focused job crafting and its effect on job satisfaction, by applying job demands-resources and regulatory focus theories. Data collected through survey questionnaire from 433 executives of public sector energy companies of India were analyzed to test hypotheses. The study found a positive effect of organizational identification on promotion- and prevention-focused job crafting and job satisfaction. Promotion-focused job crafting partially mediated the relationship of organizational identification and job satisfaction unlike prevention-focused job crafting. These unique findings may be useful from the perspective of effective job demands-resources management in a dynamic and complex operating environment of PSEs. Theoretical contributions and practical implications have been discussed.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1848024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59677770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social trust as an individual characteristic or societal property?","authors":"Seung Hyun Kim, Sangmook Kim","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1834677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1834677","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aimed to predict individual social trust with both individual- and country-level characteristics. We hypothesized that individual social trust will be affected by human values at the individual level and cultural characteristics at the national level. The hypotheses were verified by a multilevel analysis of data from the World Values Survey Wave 5 (2005–2009) and Wave 6 (2010–2014) covering 64,548 individuals in 45 countries. It was found that among individual values, universalism, stimulation, power, and self-direction were positively related to individual social trust. Factors that were negatively associated were security and achievement. Among the cultural dimensions, individualism was positively related to social trust, whereas uncertainty avoidance was negatively associated. Among the respondents, those who were older, more educated, and in higher income brackets showed higher levels of social trust. The findings here indicate that social trust is not only an individual property but also a property of society.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1834677","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44322362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning before and during the COVID-19 outbreak: a comparative analysis of crisis learning in South Korea and the US","authors":"Seulki Lee, Jungwon Yeo, Chongmin Na","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1852715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1852715","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Learning is imperative in government responses to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines the South Korean and United States governments’ responses to COVID-19 from a comparative perspective. The analysis focuses on crisis learning conducted before and during the COVID-19 outbreak, using the conceptual categories of intercrisis/intracrisis learning and single-/double-loop learning. The findings suggest that double-loop, intercrisis learning allows for more effective crisis management by (re)developing a common operating framework. The efficacy of learning is enhanced when double-loop learning is followed by single-loop learning that embeds new structures and operational procedures. The findings also suggest that intercrisis learning facilitates intracrisis learning and that political support is critical for inducing crisis learning. The paper concludes with theoretical and practical implications for crisis learning.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1852715","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46041848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Routledge companion to nonprofit management","authors":"B. Jeong","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1857057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1857057","url":null,"abstract":"Nonprofit management has been one of the most fast-growing and widely-expanding fields in scholarly research and practices. While it is a common phenomenon across the globe that the nonprofit, volu...","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1857057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47752957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How did Korea use technologies to manage the COVID-19 crisis? A country report","authors":"T. Nam","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1848061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1848061","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper discusses how Korea has used technologies to respond to COVID-19. It introduces major ICT-enabled efforts for managing this infectious disease-driven crisis in four stages: screening and diagnosis (smart quarantine information system, international traveler information system, and self-health check app for entrants under special entry procedures), epidemiological investigation (epidemiological investigation system and global epidemic prevention platform for digital tracing), patient and contact management (self-quarantine safety protection app, patient management information system, and AI-based automatic counseling), and prevention (micropage, Coronamap, Coronaita, and chatbot). The Korean government’s open government principle and proactive transition toward digital transformation has led to successful control of the COVID-19 crisis.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1848061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47877316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Korean Government’s response to COVID-19: role of Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS)","authors":"Insoo Shin, S. T. Ju","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1858585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1858585","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to introduce MFDS risk management system and to summarize a series of administrative actions taken during COVID-19. The action covers facilitation of production of personal protective equipment(PPE) including masks and hand sanitizer and their rapid transparent supply, emergency use approval of diagnostic testing kit. MFDS is also in charge of clinical trial approval of therapeutics and vaccine candidates to accelerate the development of vaccines to protect people against COVID-19. At the end, we attempt to assess our COVID-19 management strategies and to suggest future directions in terms of risk management and public communication.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1858585","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47661079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bureaucratic discretion as a fascinating area of inquiry in public administration","authors":"E. Ongaro","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1851538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1851538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1851538","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44508102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weeding out false information in disasters and emergencies: information recipients’ competency","authors":"Kyungwoo Kim, Hyeon-Suk Lyu, Dongmei Gong","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2020.1857056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1857056","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates what competency matters for citizens’ identification of false information in disasters and emergencies. False information, produced and disseminated via media, can generate social confusion and lead to an inadequate response during disasters and emergencies. Considering that the current media environment requires information recipients to have a certain degree of competency to judge the trustworthiness of information, the existing literature does not provide a systematic understanding of what constitutes individuals’ ability to identify false information related to disasters and emergencies. Using a national survey of public access to false information related to a disaster and an emergency, this study examines the effects of media channel use, digital literacy, social participation, and trust in government on the ability to identify false information during disasters and emergencies. The findings suggest public authorities or emergency managers could better provide consistent and accurate information in a way that requires less digital literacy and further improves the public’s confidence in government regarding the exchange of risk information with the public.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12294659.2020.1857056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48053911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}