Employees are essential for the effective delivery of public services. Interest in human
resource management (HRM) has increased, yet we still have much to learn about the …

Abstract Have New Public Management (NPM) reforms in public organizations improved the
quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of public policies? NPM reforms …

The nonprofit sector has become increasingly reliant on paid professional staff and now
faces competition from the private and public sectors, which often pay higher to attract and …

I finished writing this book during a five-week research leave in New York. The apartment we
stayed in was located in a 'not so gentrified'part of Brooklyn. Being confronted with the raw …

Public administration has developed as an intellectual and professional field through a
succession of six paradigms—that is, how the field has' seen itself'in the past and present …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing the decision of
managers to work in the nonprofit sector and how these choices are shaped by intrinsic and …

Millennials are a substantial segment of the workforce; they are perceived to be driven by
higher pay, quick to be dissatisfied and leave a job, and committed to volunteering. This …

Pending leadership transitions in the nonprofit sector present a timely need to understand
the career path to the executive position, but very few studies on nonprofit career paths have …

The research on employee motivation for choosing a public service career has largely been
grounded in the intrinsic-extrinsic dichotomy along with limited motives such as job security …

Career research has focused on the changing structures of careers, mainly in the private
sector. Recent literature on employment patterns in the public sector suggests that career …