OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of Public Personnel Administration is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Relationships Between Nonprofits’ Social Responsibility Structures and Employee Relations: A Multi-Level Approach	49
Thinking “Outside the Box” Whilst Remaining “Inside the Box”: Do Rules and Procedures Demotivate Creativity and Innovation in the Public Sector?	33
Book Review: Civil service systems in East and Southeast Asia	26
Can We Talk? An Exploratory Study of Gender and Network Ties in a Local Government Setting	23
A Moderated Mediation Model on the Relationship Among Public Service Motivation (PSM), Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Readiness for Change	19
Favoritism in the Federal Workplace: Are Rules the Solution?	17
Civil Servants’ Awareness of Government Performance on the SDGs: The Role of Public Service Motivation and Organizational Commitment	17
Pause But Not Panic: Exploring COVID-19 as a Critical Incident for Nonprofit Workers	16
The Impacts of Telework Options on Worker Outcomes in Local Government: Social Exchange and Social Exclusion Perspectives	15
Emotional Labor Under Abusive Supervision: Evidence from Nonstandard Employees in Public Organizations	14
Why Is Outsourcing Good for Some Employees and Bad for Others? How Demands and Resources Moderate the Outcome	13
Cognitive Uncertainty and Employees’ Daily Innovative Work Behavior: The Moderating Role of Ambidextrous Leadership	12
“They Don’t Know Who We Are”: Fear-Based Resistance and HRM in Public Service	12
Corrigendum to “Are we innovative? Increasing perceptions of nonprofit innovation through leadership, inclusion, and commitment”	12
A Tradition of Public Service in Families	11
A Demands-Resources Model of Corruptibility: Empirical Evidence on How Moral Disengagement and Harm Awareness Regulate Civil Servants’ Moral Judgment	11
Women’s Representation and Federal Employees’ Sexual Harassment Experience	11
The Hidden Costs of Red Tape: Exploring the Physical Toll of Red Tape on Teachers	10
Halos, Performance Matching, and PSM: Experimental Evidence of Performance Appraisal Bias Among Korean Government Workers	10
Unions, Monitoring, and Deferred Compensation: Evidence From California School Districts	9
Unbureaucratic Behavior in Times of Crisis: Rule-Breaking by Public Administrators	9
Telework and Public Employees’ Attitudes Post-Pandemic: Experimental Evidence From Italy	8
Improving Local Government Performance Through the Use of Contract Workers: A Case From South Korea	8
Public Service Motivation and the Circumplex Model of Affect: Profiling Australasian Public Servants	8
When Destruction is the Goal	8

Do Motivated Public Servants Behave More Ethically?	8
Leadership Ambition: The Gendered and Racialized Differences of Leadership Representation in Public Organizations	8
Joining in With Leadership? A Survey of Leadership Behaviour and Identity of Non-Managerial Employees in Public Organizations	7
Accountability at Work: Effects of Employee Accountability on Emotional Exhaustion and Engagement among Healthcare Professionals in the Netherlands	7
Influence of Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and Leader Feedback on Reward Fairness, Organization Citizenship Behavior, and Job Satisfaction	7
Inclusive Leadership, Motivation, Engagement, and Organizational Culture: Pathways to Improve Job Performance in South Sudan’s Public Sector	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
Developing Perceived and Experienced Identity: How Leadership Training Affects Leadership Identity	7
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
Exploring the Impact of Public Service Motivation on Public Employee’s Coping Strategy With Clients: Nuanced Insights From Varied Contexts	6
Empowering Employability for a Sustainable Future: How HR Practices Support Workers with Disabilities in the Public Sector in the Netherlands	6
Emotionally Intelligent Street-Level Bureaucracies: Agenda Setting for Promoting Equity in Public Service Delivery	6
Ties With Benefits: Relationship Between Relational Multiplexity, Gender, and Work-Life Balance	6
Increasing the Effectiveness of Job Advertisements: How the Use of Imagery Language Impacts Perceived Organizational Attractiveness	6
Political Interests, Fiscal Capacity, Price Priority, and Employee Safeguards in Outsourcing Contracts	6
Employees’ Reactions to a Citizen Incivility Climate: A Multilevel Multisource Study	6
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	6
Empowering Public Sector Employees With Disabilities: The Impact of DEIA Initiatives on Experience, Welfare, and Performance Confidence	6