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100 1 _aWILSON, Patricia A.
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245 1 0 _aA theory of power and politics and their effects on organizational commitment of senior executive service members
260 _aThousand Oaks :
_bSAGE,
_cMarch 1999
520 3 _aThis research establishes a power-based theory and a theory of politicization as explanations for variation in the commitment level of Senior Executive Service (SES) members in the federal government. Variables were operationalized to measure and explain the relationship between commitment and leader-member relations, involvement in quality decisions, centralization/decentralization, leadership power, and subunit power (the power-based theory). The use of an arbitrary personnel practices variable permitted the theorist to define and measure perceptions of "dirty, self-interested politics" in government (the theory of politicization). In addition, the use of a political neutrality variable allowed the author to operationalize a norm-based motive for wanting to work in the public sector. The most innovative contribution was the development of a model that operationalized the linkages between a public service value and commitment
773 0 8 _tAdministration & Society
_g31, 1, p. 120-141
_dThousand Oaks : SAGE, March 1999
_xISSN 00953997
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998 _a20061113
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_cNatália
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_cCarolina
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
_c19778
_d19778
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