Satisfied with red tape? Leadership, civic duty, and career intention in the military

We examine how the coerciveness of HR procedures and leadership behaviours affect job satisfaction (JS) and career intention (CI), and how civic duty (CD) mediates these relationships. Within the framework of the human resource management performance chain, we draw on leadership and motivational the...

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Published in:Public management review 2018-04, Vol.20 (4), p.563-586
Main Authors: Hattke, Fabian, Vogel, Rick, Znanewitz, Judith
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Behavior
Bureaucracy
Coercion
command-and-control
Human resources management
Job satisfaction
Leadership
Motivation theory
Occupational choice
public service motivation
Resource management
retention management
Structural equation modeling
Supervisors
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Summary:We examine how the coerciveness of HR procedures and leadership behaviours affect job satisfaction (JS) and career intention (CI), and how civic duty (CD) mediates these relationships. Within the framework of the human resource management performance chain, we draw on leadership and motivational theories and test the proposed relations in a structural equation model with data from a survey of the Federal Armed Forces Germany (n = 1,331). The findings show that the behaviour of supervisors, rather than red tape, influences JS and CI. The results extend our understanding of the interplay between leadership behaviours and followership attitudes under high degrees of organizational coercion.
ISSN:1471-9037
1471-9045
DOI:10.1080/14719037.2017.1335341