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100 _aHollibaugh, Gary E., Matthew, R. and Miles, Chad B.
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245 _aWhy public employees rebel: Guerrilla government in the public sector
260 _aPublic Administration Review
300 _a80(1), Jan-Feb, 2020: p.64-74
520 _aEmployee recalcitrance and employer reprisal are ever-present conditions in public service. Yet we have limited knowledge of the forces that move administrators away from acquiescence and toward antagonism. The authors follow the theoretical thrust of behavioral public administration to better understand administrative behavior by targeting the determinants of guerrilla government actions. They do so by presenting the results of a conjoint experiment embedded in a survey of federal bureaucrats. Findings show that decisions to pursue guerrilla activities are conditional on a multitude of factors—namely, the bureaucrat's personal views of the directive as a policy solution, the compatibility of the directive with the bureaucrat's ethical framework, the status of the person issuing the directive, and the probability that the directive might cause harm to others. Notably, these decisions generally are not affected by the probability of retribution or the expected type thereof. However, they are affected by the magnitude of harm that may ensue if orders are obeyed and not resisted. – Reproduced
773 _aPublic Administration Review
906 _aPUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES
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