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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Relationships Between Nonprofits’ Social Responsibility Structures and Employee Relations: A Multi-Level Approach	49
Can We Talk? An Exploratory Study of Gender and Network Ties in a Local Government Setting	41
Book Review: Civil service systems in East and Southeast Asia	35
Favoritism in the Federal Workplace: Are Rules the Solution?	34
Thinking “Outside the Box” Whilst Remaining “Inside the Box”: Do Rules and Procedures Demotivate Creativity and Innovation in the Public Sector?	30
A Moderated Mediation Model on the Relationship Among Public Service Motivation (PSM), Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Readiness for Change	28
Putting the Humanity Back Into Public Human Resources Management: A Narrative Inquiry Analysis of Public Service in the Time of COVID-19	28
Pause But Not Panic: Exploring COVID-19 as a Critical Incident for Nonprofit Workers	26
Corrigendum to “Are we innovative? Increasing perceptions of nonprofit innovation through leadership, inclusion, and commitment”	24
Why Is Outsourcing Good for Some Employees and Bad for Others? How Demands and Resources Moderate the Outcome	24
A Tradition of Public Service in Families	22
The Impacts of Telework Options on Worker Outcomes in Local Government: Social Exchange and Social Exclusion Perspectives	18
Cognitive Uncertainty and Employees’ Daily Innovative Work Behavior: The Moderating Role of Ambidextrous Leadership	17
Women’s Representation and Federal Employees’ Sexual Harassment Experience	17
Unbureaucratic Behavior in Times of Crisis: Rule-Breaking by Public Administrators	15
The Emotional Toll of the COVID-19 Crisis on Local Government Workers	15
Halos, Performance Matching, and PSM: Experimental Evidence of Performance Appraisal Bias Among Korean Government Workers	13
Book Review: Maternity Leave: Policy and Practice	10
When Destruction is the Goal	9
Telework and Public Employees’ Attitudes Post-Pandemic: Experimental Evidence From Italy	9
Do Motivated Public Servants Behave More Ethically?	9
Improving Local Government Performance Through the Use of Contract Workers: A Case From South Korea	9
Leadership Ambition: The Gendered and Racialized Differences of Leadership Representation in Public Organizations	9
Managerial Challenges of Emotional Labor Disruption: The COVID-19 Crisis in Mexico	9
Unions, Monitoring, and Deferred Compensation: Evidence From California School Districts	9

Influence of Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and Leader Feedback on Reward Fairness, Organization Citizenship Behavior, and Job Satisfaction	8
Increasing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Well-Being in Times of Crisis: A Survey Experiment With Two Social Belonging Interventions	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
I’m Only Human: A New E-road to Advancing Social Equity Through a Humanist Approach to Mentoring in Public Service	7
Developing Perceived and Experienced Identity: How Leadership Training Affects Leadership Identity	6
Increasing the Effectiveness of Job Advertisements: How the Use of Imagery Language Impacts Perceived Organizational Attractiveness	6
Joining in With Leadership? A Survey of Leadership Behaviour and Identity of Non-Managerial Employees in Public Organizations	6
Emotionally Intelligent Street-Level Bureaucracies: Agenda Setting for Promoting Equity in Public Service Delivery	6
Workplace Disruption in the Public Sector and HRM Practices to Enhance Employee Resilience	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
Ties With Benefits: Relationship Between Relational Multiplexity, Gender, and Work-Life Balance	5
Up the Chain: Gendered Mentoring in the U.S. Army	5
The Moderating role of Organizational Culture in the Relationship Between Job Autonomy and Innovative Behavior	5
Exploring the Impact of Public Service Motivation on Public Employee’s Coping Strategy With Clients: Nuanced Insights From Varied Contexts	5
Employees’ Reactions to a Citizen Incivility Climate: A Multilevel Multisource Study	5
“I Expected More From You”: The Effect of Expectation-Disconfirmation on Employees’ Satisfaction With Supervisory Support	4
Yovino v. Rizo: The Equal Pay Act and Salary History Defense	4
Reporting Workplace Discrimination: An Exploratory Analysis of Bystander Behavior	4
Mindfulness for Performance and Wellbeing in the Police: Linking Individual and Organizational Outcomes	4
Defending and Expanding Boundaries: Exploring How COVID-19 Triggered Boundary Work Among HR Managers in the Public Sector	4
Solving the Riddle of Emotional Labor: How Display Rules and Emotive Intensity Interact	3
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	3
Public Value at Cross Points: A Comparative Study on Employer Attractiveness of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Organizations	3
One Size Fits All? Exploring Motivation for Public Employees With a Job Fit Framework and Response Surface Analysis	3
Sexual Harassment and Employee Engagement: Exploring the Roles of Gender, Perceived Supervisory Support, and Gender Equity Climate	3
Process and Content in Performance Management: How Consistency and Supervisor Developmental Feedback Decrease Emotional Exhaustion Via High-Quality LMX	3
When Perceptions of Public Service Harms the Public Servant: Predictors of Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in Government	3
How Does Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Experience with Career Plateaus Impact Their Public Service Motivation? Explanations from a Conservation of Resources Perspective	3
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—Essentials of Democracy	3
Does Negative Performance Feedback Cause Managerial Turnover? The Moderating Role of Race	3
The Power of Public Service: Human Resource Management and the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Are Leadership Preferences Gendered? A Conjoint Analysis of Employee Preferences for Manager Characteristics in Male- and Female-Dominated Public Sub-Sectors in the Netherlands	3
The Fragility of Merit: Erosion of the Foundation of Public Service Under Trump	3
How Leader’s Red Tape Interacts With Employees’ Red Tape From the Lens of the Job Demands-Resources Model	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	2
Job Autonomy, Role Ambiguity, and Procedural Justice: A Multi-Conditional Process Model of Change-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Public Organizations	2
Street-Level Leadership: Re-conceptualizing the Role of the Manager	2
Blurred Lines: Exploring the Impact of Change Complexity on Role Clarity in the Public Sector	2
Symbolic Effect of Bureaucratic Representation Under Labor Shortage	2
Merit v. Equity, Redux	2
Perceived Organizational Reputation and Employee Outcomes: Looking in the Organizational Mirror, What do Employees See?	2
The Renaissance of Performance Appraisal: Engaging Public Employees Through Perceived Developmental Purpose and Justice	2
From Bureaucrats to Entrepreneurs to Networkers, Advocates, and Empaths: Reappraising Human Resources Management Ideals and Practices in Public Administration	2
Crisis in the U.S. Federal Workforce, the Parallel State, and Ways to Rebuild	2
Employer Value Propositions for Different Target Groups and Organizational Types in the Public Sector: Theory and Evidence From Field Experiments	2
Work-Family Conflict and Burnout Amid COVID-19: Exploring the Mitigating Effects of Instrumental Leadership and Social Belonging	2
Comparing Organizational Trust and Public Service Motivation Influence on Job and Organization Engagement Between Public and Private Sector Organizations Employees	2
Emergency Service Workers: The Role of Policy and Management in (Re)shaping Wellbeing for Emergency Service Workers	2