What Do Recruiters Want in a Public Sector Manager?

What Do Recruiters Want in a Public Sector Manager?

Managers in the public sector have often been criticized for being bureaucratic, impersonal, reactive, cautious conformists when compared to their apparently charismatic, innovative, proactive and dynamic private sector counterparts; with all this implies for organizational performance. Using the re...

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Veröffentlicht in:Public personnel management 1997-06, Vol.26 (2), p.245-256
Hauptverfasser: Redman, Tom, Mathews, Brian P.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Administrative science
Civil service
Comparative analysis
Corporate culture
Employee recruitment
General concepts
Government employees
Human resource management
Individual Characteristics
Interpersonal Competence
Leadership
Management
Managerial skills
Managers
Officials and employees
Organizational Culture
Personality
Private sector
Public Administration
Public employees
Public sector
Recruiting
Recruitment
Recruitment and training of civil servants
Skills
Stereotypes
Success
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Zusammenfassung:Managers in the public sector have often been criticized for being bureaucratic, impersonal, reactive, cautious conformists when compared to their apparently charismatic, innovative, proactive and dynamic private sector counterparts; with all this implies for organizational performance. Using the recruitment advertisement as a lens, we analyze what recruiters say they are looking for in a manager in the two sectors. The results suggest that while material differences do exist, external perception owes more to stereotyping than clearly observable differences.
ISSN:0091-0260
1945-7421
DOI:10.1177/009102609702600206