01266pab a2200193 454500 180718b2009 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Meynhardt, Timo Pushing the envelope: creating public value in the labor market: an empirical study on the role of middle managers 2009 p.274-312. Feb-Mar This article analyzes public value creation by the German Federal Labour Agency (FLA) from a middle management perspective. We relate the role description of a public value manager by Mark Moore with middle management research inspired by Floyd and Wooldridge. As a result of a case study we conceptualize critical experience of middle management and its antecedents in balancing different value dimensions. The conflict potential is seen less in managing different expectations from the top and the front line, but rather in enacting an integrative public value manager role itself which requires significant adaptive and value-balancing work customarily attributed to professional (private) leadership. - Reproduced. Manager Labour market Metelmann, Jorg International Journal of Public Administration N 86122 86122 86122 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 32, Issue no: 3-4 AR86582 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR