Public Agents’ Empowerment and Rule-Breaking Behaviors: Evidence from Panel Analysis of U.S. Federal Agencies

Ha H. Hur H.
March 2024 Springer

Public Organization Review
2024 #24 Issue 1 407 - 431 pp.

Public agent (un)ethical behavior or ethical leadership has been a topic of interest as well as a hot debate in terms of “bounded ethicality” in complex organizations. This article extends the study of public agents’ (rule-breaking) unbureaucratic behaviors with three contributions:1) employee empowerment is used as an organizational factor affecting public agents’ rule-breaking behaviors; 2) an agency-level panel dataset comes from three different sources; 3) panel data analysis and structural equation model are applied. The results imply that policy makers and HR manager should recognize the possibility of negative unintended consequences of over-empowerment or excessive discretion practices in public organization.

Employee Empowerment , Panel Data Analysis , Rule-breaking Behavior , Structural Equation Model , Unbureaucratic Personality

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Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University in Nursultan, Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan
Department of Public Administration and Health Management, School of Business at Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, United States

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