Senior Public Managers’ Organizational Commitment:: Do Private Sector Experience and Tenure Make a Difference?

Rhys Andrews; Jesper Rosenberg Hansen; Katy Huxley

doi:10.1080/10967494.2019.1580231

Senior Public Managers’ Organizational Commitment: Do Private Sector Experience and Tenure Make a Difference?

Rhys Andrews, Jesper Rosenberg Hansen, Katy Huxley

Department of Management

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ABSTRACT: Drawing on the literature on sector imprinting, we examine whether private sector experience is related to organizational commitment among senior public managers. We also explore the role that position and organizational tenure play in shaping that commitment, since tenure length is often associated with greater commitment, and assumed to be an important mediator of employee and organizational outcomes. Multi-level analyses of a large multinational survey of senior managers from the central governments of 16 European countries indicate that a greater proportion of private relative to public sector work experience is associated with weaker organizational commitment among senior public managers. In addition, position and organizational tenure are both positively related to commitment. Mediation analysis suggests that the mechanism through which the negative effect of private sector experience on senior managers’ organizational commitment operates is individuals’ shorter tenure in the same organization. All of these results hold when we analyze the affective, continuance, and normative dimensions of commitment separately.

Original language	English
Journal	International Public Management Journal
Volume	24
Issue	6
Pages (from-to)	911-942
Number of pages	32
ISSN	1096-7494
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2019.1580231
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

ANTECEDENTS
CONTINUANCE
EMPLOYEES
IMPACTS
JOB-PERFORMANCE
LEADERSHIP
METAANALYSIS
MOTIVATION
NORMATIVE COMMITMENT
SOCIALIZATION

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Senior Public Managers’ Organizational Commitment: Do Private Sector Experience and Tenure Make a Difference? / Andrews, Rhys; Hansen, Jesper Rosenberg; Huxley, Katy.
In: International Public Management Journal, Vol. 24, No. 6, 2021, p. 911-942.

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