Search results for: William G. Resh

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The Pivotal and Distributive Politics of Senate‐Confirmed Appointee Vacancies

William G. Resh, Nicholas G. Napolio, Eli (Keunyoung) Lee

Presidential Studies Quarterly > 52 > 1 > 60 - 83

We examine the influence of discretionary agency outlays on the relative length of Senate‐confirmed presidential appointee vacancies over time. We argue that key Senate pivots in the appointment process are more (or less) likely to extend a vacancy based on an agency's discretionary spending outlays to the Senator's state. We combine a uniquely thorough dataset on PAS vacancies with federal budget data by state and agency and show that co‐partisan Senate pivots in the confirmation process seem to reward presidents with shorter vacancies when a given agency is more generous in discretionary outlays. However, under divided government, vacancies lengthen in presidentially aligned agencies as status quo agency outlays increase to key pivots. Our work speaks to both the pivotal politics of the Senate and the extent to which presidents and Senators might value filled (vacant) PAS positions...

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The Persistence of Prosocial Work Effort as a Function of Mission Match

William G. Resh, John D. Marvel, Bo Wen

Public Administration Review > 78 > 1 > 116 - 125

The authors use an online experiment to test the proposal that “mission match” leads to persistent prosocial work effort, whereby employees go above and beyond remunerated job responsibilities to deliver a public good. First, the importance of mission match to persistent prosocial work effort in public and nonprofit organizations is discussed. Then a real‐effort experiment is used to test whether mission match is associated with the persistence of individual work effort under conditions of unreasonable performance expectations. Findings show that subjects’ narrow identification with the mission of the particular organization on whose behalf they are working is a more important determinant of persistence than the extent to which one reports self‐sacrifice as a motivation toward service. Moreover, reported self‐sacrifice does not appear to reinforce the relationship between mission match and persistent prosocial work behavior...

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Assessing the Past and Promise of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for Public Management Research: A Research Synthesis

Sergio Fernandez, William G. Resh, Tima Moldogaziev, Zachary W. Oberfield

Public Administration Review > 75 > 3 > 382 - 394

Since 2002, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has used the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) to monitor efforts by federal executive agencies to manage human capital. Public management researchers have used FEVS data to produce dozens of peer‐reviewed publications on a range of topics of interest to policy makers, practitioners, and academics. Despite the proliferation of these empirical studies, the field of public management until now has lacked a critical assessment of the FEVS and of how researchers have used the data. In this article, the authors discuss the strengths of the FEVS and the opportunities this survey has created for public management researchers. Despite important contributions made to the literature using the data, there are weaknesses in the content, design, and implementation of the FEVS. The authors offer a set of recommendations for refining the survey and its implementation with the aim of improving the quality and value of the data. In doing so, they hope to foster a dialogue between public management researchers and the Office of Personnel Management on the future of the FEVS and to forge a stronger link between these two communities.

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Appointee–Careerist Relations in the Presidential Transition of 2008‐2009

William G. Resh

Presidential Studies Quarterly > 44 > 4 > 697 - 723

This research takes a different approach from most studies of presidential transitions by examining transition preparations from the unique perspective of the career bureaucrats that provide a critical connection between transitions and governance. I examine how career senior executives perceive management techniques that are commonly prescribed to political appointees, how prominent their application...

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No Solutions, Only Trade‐Offs? Evidence about Goal Conflict in Street‐Level Bureaucracies

William G. Resh, David W. Pitts

Public Administration Review > 73 > 1 > 132 - 142

Theories of goal conflict suggest that public organizations confront two possibilities when they face multiple policy goals: (1) organizations attain synergy among lower‐order, instrumental goals in order to achieve higher‐order objectives, or (2) organizations face a zero‐sum trade‐off among goals. Implicit in this debate is the proposition that trade‐off is more likely when performance toward the...

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Accommodating Risk Requires Managing Relationships

William G. Resh

Public Administration Review > 72 > s1 > S45 - S46

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The Pivotal and Distributive Politics of Senate‐Confirmed Appointee Vacancies

The Persistence of Prosocial Work Effort as a Function of Mission Match

Assessing the Past and Promise of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for Public Management Research: A Research Synthesis

Appointee–Careerist Relations in the Presidential Transition of 2008‐2009

No Solutions, Only Trade‐Offs? Evidence about Goal Conflict in Street‐Level Bureaucracies

Accommodating Risk Requires Managing Relationships

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The Pivotal and Distributive Politics of Senate‐Confirmed Appointee Vacancies

The Persistence of Prosocial Work Effort as a Function of Mission Match

Assessing the Past and Promise of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for Public Management Research: A Research Synthesis

Appointee–Careerist Relations in the Presidential Transition of 2008‐2009

No Solutions, Only Trade‐Offs? Evidence about Goal Conflict in Street‐Level Bureaucracies

Accommodating Risk Requires Managing Relationships

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