Publication
Title
How multiple organizational changes shape managerial support for innovative work behavior : evidence from the Australian public service
Author
Abstract
Public organizations were once seen as the epitome of stability and implacability. More recently, however, public organizations have been subject to fast-paced environmental change. One common response to the challenges posed by these volatile environments has been the adoption of various organizational changes to make public organizations more adaptable. However, following threat-rigidity theory, this study argues that as employees perceive multiple organizational changes, managerial support for innovative work behavior (IWB) of employees decreases. Analyses on the Australian Public Service (APS) employee census support these assertions. Our results contribute to the literatures on work behavior, organizational innovation, and human resources management, by demonstrating that multiple organizational changes negatively affect managerial support for IWB of individual employees, which maythrough their negative impact on individual-level innovationsultimately affect the very adaptability of organizations that many changes aspire to achieve.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Review of public personnel administration. - Sacramento, Calif.
Publication
Sacramento, Calif. : 2020
ISSN
0734-371X
DOI
10.1177/0734371X18824388
Volume/pages
40 :3 (2020) , p. 491-515
ISI
000546401900007
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UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
Bureaucracy despite reforms: does a history of intensive structural reforms make public sector organizations more bureaucratic (again)?
Publication type
Subject
Law 
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 02.10.2024
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