OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of Public Personnel Administration is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Favoritism in the Federal Workplace: Are Rules the Solution?	55
Can We Talk? An Exploratory Study of Gender and Network Ties in a Local Government Setting	50
Relationships Between Nonprofits’ Social Responsibility Structures and Employee Relations: A Multi-Level Approach	46
A Moderated Mediation Model on the Relationship Among Public Service Motivation (PSM), Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Readiness for Change	41
Thinking “Outside the Box” Whilst Remaining “Inside the Box”: Do Rules and Procedures Demotivate Creativity and Innovation in the Public Sector?	31
Book Review: Civil service systems in East and Southeast Asia	23
Pause But Not Panic: Exploring COVID-19 as a Critical Incident for Nonprofit Workers	21
The Impacts of Telework Options on Worker Outcomes in Local Government: Social Exchange and Social Exclusion Perspectives	21
A Tradition of Public Service in Families	18
Emotional Labor Under Abusive Supervision: Evidence from Nonstandard Employees in Public Organizations	15
“They Don’t Know Who We Are”: Fear-Based Resistance and HRM in Public Service	14
Why Is Outsourcing Good for Some Employees and Bad for Others? How Demands and Resources Moderate the Outcome	14
Corrigendum to “Are we innovative? Increasing perceptions of nonprofit innovation through leadership, inclusion, and commitment”	13
Women’s Representation and Federal Employees’ Sexual Harassment Experience	12
Cognitive Uncertainty and Employees’ Daily Innovative Work Behavior: The Moderating Role of Ambidextrous Leadership	12
A Demands-Resources Model of Corruptibility: Empirical Evidence on How Moral Disengagement and Harm Awareness Regulate Civil Servants’ Moral Judgment	12
The Emotional Toll of the COVID-19 Crisis on Local Government Workers	11
Unbureaucratic Behavior in Times of Crisis: Rule-Breaking by Public Administrators	11
Halos, Performance Matching, and PSM: Experimental Evidence of Performance Appraisal Bias Among Korean Government Workers	11
Unions, Monitoring, and Deferred Compensation: Evidence From California School Districts	10
Improving Local Government Performance Through the Use of Contract Workers: A Case From South Korea	9
Telework and Public Employees’ Attitudes Post-Pandemic: Experimental Evidence From Italy	9
Public Service Motivation and the Circumplex Model of Affect: Profiling Australasian Public Servants	8
When Destruction is the Goal	8
Leadership Ambition: The Gendered and Racialized Differences of Leadership Representation in Public Organizations	8

Do Motivated Public Servants Behave More Ethically?	8
Take (part) or Toss? Applying a Job Demands-Resources Lens to Public Leaders’ Motivation to Engage in Leader Training	7
Human Capital Drivers of Employee Intent to Innovate: The Case of Public Procurement Professionals	7
Coping With, Or Recovering From COVID-19 Related Red Tape? Comparing Public Servants’ Strategies to Deal With the Health-Impairment and Demotivational Processes From Red Tape Through Well-Being on Per	7
Developing Perceived and Experienced Identity: How Leadership Training Affects Leadership Identity	7
Influence of Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and Leader Feedback on Reward Fairness, Organization Citizenship Behavior, and Job Satisfaction	7
Accountability at Work: Effects of Employee Accountability on Emotional Exhaustion and Engagement among Healthcare Professionals in the Netherlands	7
Emotionally Intelligent Street-Level Bureaucracies: Agenda Setting for Promoting Equity in Public Service Delivery	7
Effects of Smart Work Use on Innovative Behavior: Focusing on the Moderating Role of Organizational Goal Ambiguity	7
Increasing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Well-Being in Times of Crisis: A Survey Experiment With Two Social Belonging Interventions	7
Joining in With Leadership? A Survey of Leadership Behaviour and Identity of Non-Managerial Employees in Public Organizations	7
Inclusive Leadership, Motivation, Engagement, and Organizational Culture: Pathways to Improve Job Performance in South Sudan’s Public Sector	7
Political Interests, Fiscal Capacity, Price Priority, and Employee Safeguards in Outsourcing Contracts	6
Ties With Benefits: Relationship Between Relational Multiplexity, Gender, and Work-Life Balance	6
Empowering Public Sector Employees With Disabilities: The Impact of DEIA Initiatives on Experience, Welfare, and Performance Confidence	6
Book Review: Managing Gender Inequity in Academia: A Guide for Faculty and Administrators in Public Affairs Programs Scutelnicu TodoranG. (2024). Managin	6
Exploring the Impact of Public Service Motivation on Public Employee’s Coping Strategy With Clients: Nuanced Insights From Varied Contexts	6
Increasing the Effectiveness of Job Advertisements: How the Use of Imagery Language Impacts Perceived Organizational Attractiveness	6
Employees’ Reactions to a Citizen Incivility Climate: A Multilevel Multisource Study	6
Motivation, Burnout, and Resignation: A Longitudinal Study of Law Enforcement Officers	5
Mindfulness for Performance and Wellbeing in the Police: Linking Individual and Organizational Outcomes	5
Reporting Workplace Discrimination: An Exploratory Analysis of Bystander Behavior	5
Does Negative Performance Feedback Cause Managerial Turnover? The Moderating Role of Race	5
Pension Reform and Employee Satisfaction With the Public Service Profession: Evidence From the 2015 Public Officials Pension Reform in South Korea	5
Yovino v. Rizo : The Equal Pay Act and Salary History Defense	5
Are Leadership Preferences Gendered? A Conjoint Analysis of Employee Preferences for Manager Characteristics in Male- and Female-Dominated Public Sub-Sectors in the Netherlands	5
The Moderating role of Organizational Culture in the Relationship Between Job Autonomy and Innovative Behavior	5
Defending and Expanding Boundaries: Exploring How COVID-19 Triggered Boundary Work Among HR Managers in the Public Sector	5
When Public Institutions Lack Means: HRM and the Production of Meaningful Work in Chilean Education	5
Process and Content in Performance Management: How Consistency and Supervisor Developmental Feedback Decrease Emotional Exhaustion Via High-Quality LMX	4
Did Leadership Become More Important During COVID-19? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Servant Leadership on Performance and Work-Life Balance Satisfaction in a Public Organization	4
Solving the Riddle of Emotional Labor: How Display Rules and Emotive Intensity Interact	4
The Power of Public Service: Human Resource Management and the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—Essentials of Democracy	3
United States Federal Employee Development in Turbulent Times: Using Job Demands-Resources Theory to Explain Changes in Perceived Performance and Turnover Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Crisis in the U.S. Federal Workforce, the Parallel State, and Ways to Rebuild	3
How Does Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Experience with Career Plateaus Impact Their Public Service Motivation? Explanations from a Conservation of Resources Perspective	3
Individual Risk Aversion and Public Sector Socialization: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study	3
One Size Fits All? Exploring Motivation for Public Employees With a Job Fit Framework and Response Surface Analysis	3
Public Value at Cross Points: A Comparative Study on Employer Attractiveness of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Organizations	2
Perceived Organizational Reputation and Employee Outcomes: Looking in the Organizational Mirror, What do Employees See?	2
Emergency Service Workers: The Role of Policy and Management in (Re)shaping Wellbeing for Emergency Service Workers	2
Job Satisfaction and the Digital Transformation of the Public Sector: The Mediating Role of Job Autonomy	2
Building Loyalty Among Public Employees: The Impact of High-Performance Work Practices	2
From Bureaucrats to Entrepreneurs to Networkers, Advocates, and Empaths: Reappraising Human Resources Management Ideals and Practices in Public Administration	2
Street-Level Leadership: Re-conceptualizing the Role of the Manager	2
The Fragility of Merit: Erosion of the Foundation of Public Service Under Trump	2
Comparing Organizational Trust and Public Service Motivation Influence on Job and Organization Engagement Between Public and Private Sector Organizations Employees	2
The Renaissance of Performance Appraisal: Engaging Public Employees Through Perceived Developmental Purpose and Justice	2
Applying Work Redesign Strategies in Chinese Government Reforms: Lessons for the Government Reform Study	2

Employer Value Propositions for Different Target Groups and Organizational Types in the Public Sector: Theory and Evidence From Field Experiments	2
Job Autonomy, Role Ambiguity, and Procedural Justice: A Multi-Conditional Process Model of Change-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Public Organizations	2
How Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Are Distorted as a Coping Strategy on the Frontline: The Roles of Bureaucratic Control and Red Tape	2
Beyond Inclusion: Examining the Role of HRM Practices in Government Agencies	2
Work-Family Conflict and Burnout Amid COVID-19: Exploring the Mitigating Effects of Instrumental Leadership and Social Belonging	2
Veteran Status and Job Candidate Assessments in U.S. Local Governments	2
Symbolic Effect of Bureaucratic Representation Under Labor Shortage	2
Merit v. Equity, Redux	2