#WilmasReview of the week:
Wilma 🐶 sometimes dreams of being a queen, especially when an exciting new year starts. As the Danish crown prince is promoted to king 👑 today, Wilma has found a recent study in Academy of Management Journal that shows that managers whose subordinates are promoted more often attract more and better internal candidates.
#WilmasReview of the week:
Wilma 🐶 has some exciting future projections for you at the end of the year. What will human kinship look like in the future? And, equally relevant for Wilma: What about dogs and horses?
Read this recent study by Diego Alburez Gutierrez, Iván Williams and Hal Caswell to find the answer for human kinship: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2315722120
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Wilma 🐶 feels like Rudolph 🦌 this year - happy to help Santa 🎅 even without a red nose 🔴
Did you have a red nose at this year's company Christmas party? And how do employees feel about alcohol at the company Christmas party?
Read more about company Christmas parties and employee happiness in this study by Zacher: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27473-y
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Sometimes Wilma 🐶 feels trapped by all the work. She doesn't even know how she ended up in this situation ❔
But does workload negatively affect there work outcomes of public sector employees? Recent research by Elizabeth Bell, Ph.D. and Meyer find that reducing street-level bureaucrats’ workload can be a lever for reducing disparities, such as lower program access of minorities.
Read the study here:
https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muad018
#postdog @AarhusUni
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Wilma 🐶 must be resilient these days: all the beautiful snow is gone again.
But what role does resilience play?
A survey study with German public employees shows that individual resilience is related to job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion.
Wilma thinks that future research should also consider snow around Christmas as a determinant. ☃
Read the study by Wursthorn, Saliterer and Korac here:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X231162045
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In these freezing temperatures, Wilma 🐶 wonders whether politicians' salaries should be frozen, like some citizens might say?
R. Pedersen and Lene Holm Pedersen show in their study that trust in politicians is a key predictor of attitudes regarding their pay. "Distrust toward politicians seems to matter much more than general attitudes on income inequality when citizens form opinions on politicians’ pay."
Study:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032321719850073
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Wilma 🐶 joining the dark side? 👿
Wilma tries her new role as imperator to explore how populist leaders affect corruption. However, the new study by Zhang in the Journal Governance shows that countries with a populist leader often face a substantial increase in executive corruption, not a "drained swamp".
Read the study here: https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12829
#postdog @AarhusUni
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Wilma fears flooding if the water spills over... 😱
Spillover is not only a challenge when it rains a lot but also for #evidencebased #policymaking. A joint study with Ternovski, Jilke and @dominikvogel shows that field experiments may not capture the influence of social networks/ risk missing spillover effects. Using a population-level field experiment to test whether a policy scales can help avoid undesired outcomes.
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Wilma is a #postdog working in the #publicsector. Does that imply that she makes fewer errors than private sector dogs or ducks? Hard to say. But is work of higher quality when performed under public compared to private ownership? Find out more about this in a new article by Simon Calmar Andersen, Morten Bruntse, Oliver James and Sebastian Jilke.
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Wilma visits DOKK1 in Aarhus - - a lot of creative public employees work there. Read more about the role of organizational climate and public service motivation policy creativity in this new article by Julia Fleischer and Camilla Wanckel.
https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13676
PS: The study finds that using #socialmedia to interact with others could also deteriorate policy creativity because of social media stress - so Wilma will take a break. 🍭
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Wilma enjoys the free time on a canoe and wonders: do people stop working when there is a #universalbasicincome? To understand the effects of such universal cash transfers, she reads a recent study, which finds evidence of both a positive labor demand and negative labor supply response to the transfers. Read it here:
https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22455
Authors: Andrew Bibler, Mouhcine Guettabi, Matthew N. Reimer
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Low performance in your public organization? Might be related to vacancies on the leadership level. Often claimed, but now empirical evidence is available. Possible determinants: change in time horizons, agency morale, and investment by key stakeholders. Read more in this study by Christopher Piper and David Lewis
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While relaxing in the sun, Wilma reads a new article about stressed public employees. In the presented context, stress among public employees is positively associated with citizens' experiences of learning as well as compliance costs, and experiences of autonomy loss. Read more in the new Public Administration Review (PAR) study by Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Jonas Krogh Madsen, and Martin Bækgaard.
#WilmasReview of the week: Wilma is cool when it comes to pay negotiations. 😎
This new study discusses why emphasizing work for the greater good leads job candidates to accept lower wages. Results point towards a interesting observation:
Job candidates self-censoring on pay from concerns about violating organizational norms rather than solely from a willingness to trade higher pay for potentially meaningful work.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1675
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As an international #postdog, Wilma reads more about the economic benefits of international labor market mobility today. "Trillion dollar bills on the sidewalk” (Clemens 2011) vs. political and cultural challenges? Read more in this review by Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-025843
#postdog #kontorhund #Ledelsescenter #AarhusUniversity
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Wilma 🐶 does the laundry and posts about it on social media. Clever idea? A recent study shows how social media profiles might affect hiring and lead to discrimination. Upper-class-signalling job candidates might be preferred over the lower-class-signalling job candidate. Read the study by Diana Galos in European Sociological Review.
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Wilma 🐶 shows with a footrest how creative users can help with service innovations. A recent study indicates that user involvement is indeed a catalyst for collaborative service innovation. Read the study by Chesney Callens in #JPART.
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Wilma 🐶 shows how hard she can work. Why? A recent study shows that recruiters value the orientation toward hard work more, whereas innate talent is valued relatively more by job candidates. There is a relevant discrepancy in the perception of the attributes between recruiters and job candidates. Read the study by Xianchi Dai and Kao Si in in Organization Science.
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Wilma 🐶 is of course the boss, quite clear for her. But what do we know about "the boss" in public organizations? Read the new literature review by Ting H. and Anders Villadsen in Public Administration Review
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Wilma 🐶 feels sometimes misled 🙄 but what if this happens in environmental agencies? Read the new study on #politicization in public agencies in Brazil by Joana Story, Gabriela Lotta & Gustavo M. Tavares
