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Research
My research focuses on how public organizations can create conditions for organizational learning, as well as how they can use different types of data and measurements to promote dialogue, learning, and improvement.
I have also worked on how data and performance measurement affect public organizations more broadly. This includes how employees and public managers respond to measurements and data; how data can support performance management; and how data and performance measurements influence (and are influenced by) elected politicians and political decisions.
Teaching
I teach courses on our professional master of public management as well as in the political science and public policy programs.
My teaching focuses on public administration and management and on the application of organization theory to understand public organizations. Some topics of particular interest are bounded rationality and behavioral theory, organizational structure, performance management, and organizational learning.
Keywords
- Administration and bureaucracy
- Organisation theory
- Management theory
- Performance
- Human Resource Management
- Evaluation
- Organisational learning
- School management
Areas of expertise
- Public administration
- Public management
- Organizational learning
- Performance management
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King Frederiks Center for Public Leadership
Andersen, L. B. (Participant), Jakobsen, M. L. (Participant), Jacobsen, C. B. (Participant), Grøn, C. H. (Participant), Hall, E. (Participant), Bundgaard, L. (Participant), Gregersen, D. S. (Participant), Graversen, M. S. (Participant), Kjær Hargraves, E. (Participant), Hansen, A.-K. L. (Participant), Højberg, N. (Participant), Kjeldsen, A. M. (Participant), Nielsen, P. A. (Participant), Lund, C. S. (Participant), Tangsgaard, E. R. (Participant), Keppeler, F. (Participant), Gøtzsche-Astrup, O. (Participant), Østergaard-Nielsen, M. R. (Participant), Jensen, U. T. (Participant), Winsløw, M. A. (Participant), van Luttervelt, M. P. (Participant), Grøn, A. B. (Participant), 493907, 4. (Participant), Henriksen, J. (Participant), Haunstrup, J. K. S. (Participant) & Grøn, R. T. (Participant)
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Project: Research
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How Do Public Managers Learn from Performance Information? Experimental Evidence on Problem Focus, Innovative Search, and Change
Hansen, J. A. J. & Nielsen, P. A., 1 Sept 2022, In: Public Administration Review. 82, 5, p. 946-957 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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How can public managers use performance management for improvement without demotivating employees?
Nielsen, P. A. & Grøn, C. H., Jan 2021, Managing for Public Service Performance: How People and Values Make a Difference. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 142-160Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Performance Management, Managerial Authority, and Public Service Performance
Nielsen, P. A., 2014, In: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 24, 2, p. 431-458 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Are Transformational and Transactional Types of Leadership Compatible? A Two-Wave Study of Employee Motivation
Nielsen, P. A., Boye, S., Holten, A.-L., Jacobsen, C. B. & Andersen, L. B., Jun 2019, In: Public Administration. 97, 2, p. 413-428 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Organisationsteoriens bidrag til forståelsen af den offentlige forvaltning
Nielsen, P. A. & Pallesen, T., 2024, Offentlig forvaltning : et politologisk perspektiv. Blom-Hansen, J., Munk Christiansen, P., Pallesen, T. & Serritzlew, S. (eds.). 3 ed. København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, p. 215-246 32 p. (Statskundskab).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Education › peer-review
Prizes
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Best Journal Article published in 2017 in the Fields of Public and Nonprofit Management. Awarded by The Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Division
Nielsen, P. A. (Recipient), 2018
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Runner-Up Award for the 2017 Kooiman Prize for Best Article published in Public Management Review
Nielsen, P. A. (Recipient), 2018
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The 2024 Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scolarship Award
Hansen, J. A. J. (Recipient) & Nielsen, P. A. (Recipient), 2024
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