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Organizational rules and cognitive uncertainty among public professionals

a daily diary study

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Organizational rules and cognitive uncertainty among public professionals

a daily diary study

Open access

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Although public management and human resource management research has extensively investigated the motivational effects of organizational rules, the original utility of organizational rules—uncertainty reduction—has remained overlooked.
This study takes a cognitive perspective by examining how organizational rules relate to uncertainty experiences of public professionals. In this study, we provide a dynamic perspective on the relationship between organizational rules and uncertainty through a 2-week daily online diary study among 65 public professionals in the Netherlands. The results indicate that the amount and consistency of rules are related to professionals’ daily uncertainty experiences. Moreover, within-person experiences of rules and uncertainty are highly variable over time. We argue that a cognitive perspective of uncertainty reduction can broaden our understanding of the consequences of organizational rules in managing people, and that the dynamic nature of organizational rule experiences cannot be a mere footnote in future public administration and human resource management research.

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OrganisatieHogeschool Leiden
AfdelingFaculteit Zorg
LectoraatSociale innovatie en ondernemerschap
Gepubliceerd inReview of Public Personnel Administration Pagina's: 1-22
Jaar2020
TypeArtikel
DOI10.1177/0734371X20943932
TaalEngels

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