دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی اهمیت شبکه های حرفه ای غیررسمی در توسعه یک فرهنگ سازمانی فعال - تیلور و فرانسیس 2018

Public value theory was used by the authors to investigate informal professional networks, perceived discretionary power, and the organizational culture that forms in physical asset management organizations. The results, from a structural equation model, indicated that informal professional networks are positively associated with higher discretionary power and a proactive asset maintenance organizational culture. In the absence of public managers promoting public value, professionals use their informal networks as a source of power to be proactive and contribute to asset reliability and public safety (public value).

Conclusion

This paper found that informal professional networks are being used to ensure that physical asset management organizations managing utilities (for example power, water, sewage, transport) also deliver public value in the form of proactively maintaining assets, which has been linked to improved public safety and asset reliability (Morimoto, 2010). The professional networks provide access to resources and empower professionals to shape an organizational culture to ensure essential utilities are delivered safely to the public by PUBLIC MONEY & MANAGEMENT APRIL 2018 211 © 2018 CIPFA publicly owned organizations, public-private partnerships, or a private contractor on behalf of the government (Brunetto et al., 2014a; Xerri et al., 2014). Hence, PVT provided an insightful lens for examining how professional groups may shape management decisions. As such, it addresses a call by Isett et al. (2011) for empirical research to examine how new forms of governance occur in networked structures.