TY - JOUR
T1 - Public Agents’ Empowerment and Rule-Breaking Behaviors
T2 - Evidence from Panel Analysis of U.S. Federal Agencies
AU - Ha, Hyesong
AU - Hur, Hyunkang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023.
PY - 2024/3
Y1 - 2024/3
N2 - Public agent (un)ethical behavior or ethical leadership has been a topic of interest as well as a hot debate in terms of “bounded ethicality” in complex organizations. This article extends the study of public agents’ (rule-breaking) unbureaucratic behaviors with three contributions:1) employee empowerment is used as an organizational factor affecting public agents’ rule-breaking behaviors; 2) an agency-level panel dataset comes from three different sources; 3) panel data analysis and structural equation model are applied. The results imply that policy makers and HR manager should recognize the possibility of negative unintended consequences of over-empowerment or excessive discretion practices in public organization.
AB - Public agent (un)ethical behavior or ethical leadership has been a topic of interest as well as a hot debate in terms of “bounded ethicality” in complex organizations. This article extends the study of public agents’ (rule-breaking) unbureaucratic behaviors with three contributions:1) employee empowerment is used as an organizational factor affecting public agents’ rule-breaking behaviors; 2) an agency-level panel dataset comes from three different sources; 3) panel data analysis and structural equation model are applied. The results imply that policy makers and HR manager should recognize the possibility of negative unintended consequences of over-empowerment or excessive discretion practices in public organization.
KW - Employee Empowerment
KW - Panel Data Analysis
KW - Rule-breaking Behavior
KW - Structural Equation Model
KW - Unbureaucratic Personality
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U2 - 10.1007/s11115-023-00743-z
DO - 10.1007/s11115-023-00743-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85169929564
SN - 1566-7170
VL - 24
SP - 407
EP - 431
JO - Public Organization Review
JF - Public Organization Review
IS - 1
ER -