Papers by Darrell Bratton
Australian journal of business and management research, Jan 11, 2013
The federal budget crisis has come to a boiling point and federal employees are feeling the pain ... more The federal budget crisis has come to a boiling point and federal employees are feeling the pain as well. Motivation of federal employees is a current topic that needs to be addressed as the government is downsizing at an ever increasing rate. With pay freezes, pay cuts, and now downsizing, Herzberg's research based on the Motivation/Hygiene theory will be looked at as a way of predicting how to motivate federal employees while the government is downsizing. There is a dearth of current research related to the motivation of federal employees during downsizing. Seminal research is reviewed as well as some recent research on motivation and downsizing. From this literature review, the gap in the research reveals that future research can be based on data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; however, the study should be longitudinal and specific to an agency so that a representative sample can be analyzed.
Practices of top-level managers toward managing and/or leading co-owners within employee-owned firms seeking to establish workplace democracy: An exploratory inquiry
Australian Journal of Business and Management Research, 2013
The federal budget crisis has come to a boiling point and federal employees are feeling the pain ... more The federal budget crisis has come to a boiling point and federal employees are feeling the pain as well. Motivation of federal employees is a current topic that needs to be addressed as the government is downsizing at an ever increasing rate. With pay freezes, pay cuts, and now downsizing, Herzberg’s research based on the Motivation/Hygiene theory will be looked at as a way of predicting how to motivate federal employees while the government is downsizing. There is a dearth of current research related to the motivation of federal employees during downsizing. Seminal research is reviewed as well as some recent research on motivation and downsizing. From this literature review, the gap in the research reveals that future research can be based on data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; however, the study should be longitudinal and specific to an agency so that a representative sample can be analyzed.
International Journal of Management & Information Systems (IJMIS), 2013
The federal government has not escaped the increasing worldwide useof social networking. Federal ... more The federal government has not escaped the increasing worldwide useof social networking. Federal employees are using social networks (socialmedia) for personal and professional reasons and leadership and management arewrestling with the ethical implications.The role of ethical theory and practice in the global businessenvironment is discoursed from the federal governments vantage point withrespect to social networking. Given thehistory of federal government officials and employees acting in an unethicalmanner, multiple normative ethical theories are investigated. The leadership is examined with a utilitarianlens and non-management employees are studied from the Kantianperspective. Additionally, virtue ethicsare discussed as a counter argument to the aforementioned theories. Cultural intelligence is discussed as havingreciprocal relationship with the multicultural and global aspect of socialnetworking. It is argued that ethicalintelligence needs to be created to support the minimum r...
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Papers by Darrell Bratton