Dominik Vogel

• PhD
• Professor at Hochschule Harz

This article examines the use of performance information by public managers. It conceptualizes purposeful data use as a type of extra-role behaviour which requires additional effort on the part of the managers and which is not extrinsically rewarded. The article sheds light on one potential antecedent of performance information use – the motivation...

This article is a response to calls in prior research that we need more longitudinal analyses to better understand the foundations of PSM and related prosocial values. There is wide agreement that it is crucial for theory building but also for tailoring hiring practices and human resource development programs to sort out whether PSM-related values...

Over the past decade, practitioners and scholars have intensified the discussions around people’s expectations from their jobs and how public and private organizations can succeed in the war for talent. In this context, it has become obvious that people not only seek high salaries and career opportunities but also meaningfulness in their daily task...

Tummers and Knies (2016) have recently introduced a 21‐item scale for the measurement of public leadership to the burgeoning field of leadership research in public administration. However, due to restrictions in survey length and response time, scholars often face practical difficulties when adopting measurement scales of such length. In many subfi...

Importance Prior studies found that financial incentives have small, positive direct effects in increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates, but unmeasured social spillovers (ie, changes in outcomes among untreated individuals who are socially exposed to policy beneficiaries) may diminish the overall effect of such policies. Objective To assess the spil...

Public employees are expected to treat all citizens alike but due to scarce resources and increasing demands, they often simplify their decisions and prioritize, which carries the risk of discrimination. This study shifts attention to the taxonomy of categories that public employees freely associate with citizens (i.e., implicit citizenship theorie...

While increasing gender diversity is a desirable goal, contemporary research often overlooks gender sorting in the public labor market. Such structural self-selection among job seekers may considerably weaken efforts to increase diversity. We investigate how job advertisements contribute to gender sorting by examining gendered language and the gend...

Public administration research has recently paid increasing attention to public employees’ social categorization of citizens and the consequences thereof for administrative decision-making. We advance this line of scholarship by theorizing the concept of implicit citizenship theories (ICTs) and elaborating it in four sequential empirical studies. I...

In line with social construction scholarship, the stigmatization of neighborhoods has been used to justify or advocate for gentrification and development efforts that often displace marginalized populations. Challenging stigma in public discourse can help level the playing field in support of community interests. This study examines two strategies...

To motivate contributions to public goods, should policy makers employ financial incentives like taxes, fines, subsidies, and rewards? While these are widely considered as the classic policy approach, a substantial academic literature suggests the impact of financial incentives is not always positive; they can sometimes fail or even backfire. To te...

This study examines how motivational signals in job advertisements relate to public employers’ recruitment success, testing hypotheses derived from signalling theory and person – environment fit theory. We combine job advertisements collected via web crawling with matched survey data on the recruitment process (1,863 recruiters), capturing Germany’...

Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) are increasingly relied upon by policymakers as part of efforts to incorporate evidence into the policymaking process, a movement known as evidence-based policymaking, or EBPM. Testing possible policy interventions via RCTs before full rollout is commonly thought to be the gold standard of evidence in the EBPM proce...

Importance Prior studies found that financial incentives have small, positive direct effects in increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates, but unmeasured social spillovers (ie, changes in outcomes among untreated individuals who are socially exposed to policy beneficiaries) may diminish the overall effect of such policies.Objective To assess the spillo...

To motivate contributions to public goods, should policy makers employ financial incentives like taxes, fines, subsidies, and rewards? While these are widely considered as the classic policy approach, a substantial academic literature suggests the impact of financial incentives is not always positive; they can sometimes fail or even backfire. To te...

Scholars have recently spent growing attention to what public employees think of citizens, which influences policy implementation through more manifest attitudes and behaviors. The origins of employees’ positive and negative associations with citizens have, however, not been examined thus far. This study draws attention to workplace aggression as c...

During a global pandemic, individual views of government can be linked to citizens’ trust and cooperation with government and their propensity to resist state policies or to take action that influences the course of a pandemic. This article explores citizens’ assessments of government responses to COVID‐19 as a function of policy substance (restric...

Finding a mission is important for employees to perform well in public service jobs. Research has demonstrated that leadership can facilitate mission valence among followers, but if and how leadership unfolds this effect at the presence of excessive bureaucracy (i.e., red tape) is unclear. This interaction is particularly interesting in the case of...

Although paradoxes are inherent to the public sector, few attempts have been made to better understand how to manage such competing yet interrelated demands effectively. This study examines how paradoxical leadership (i.e., leaders’ sense-giving about organizational paradoxes) affects follower outcomes. Based on two-wave survey data from German dis...

Self-reported measures of leadership are widely used in public management research, but nonresponse bias poses a threat to the validity of these data. Although this measurement problem is acknowledged, it has received limited empirical attention because nonresponse bias is inherently challenging to study. To address this issue, we examine nonrespon...

While research on the dysfunctional uses of performance data is growing, we are still in search of theories that go beyond system-specific explanations and address data manipulation behavior at the level of the employee. In this article, we conceptualize different gaming responses to performance systems and test a model of performance cheating that...

Zusammenfassung Mittlerweile gibt es auch in Organisationen des öffentlichen Sektors häufig mehrere IT-Führungsrollen im Top-Management-Team (TMT). Wir wissen bisher aber sehr wenig darüber, wie diese IT-Führungsrollen ausgestaltet sind und wie sie sich voneinander abgrenzen lassen. Dieser Artikel nutzt Job Mining von Stellenausschreibungen im öffe...

Based on privacy calculus theory, we derive hypotheses on the role of perceived usefulness and privacy risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in public services. In a representative vignette experiment (n = 1,048), we asked citizens whether they would download a mobile app to interact in an AI-driven public service. Despite general concerns about pr...

Public administrations invest heavily in the development of 'smart' public services, including autonomous public service robots. Since public service robots are designed to operate unsupervised, robots must interact in an ethically acceptable way with citizens. Robots are often designed to provide a comfortable interaction with citizens, which can...

Over the past decade, practitioners and scholars have intensified the discussions around people’s expectations from their jobs and how public and private organizations can succeed in the war for talent. In this context, it has become obvious that people not only seek high salaries and career opportunities but also meaningfulness in their daily task...

Die öffentliche Verwaltung in Deutschland ist mit der Herausforderung konfrontiert, in einem stark umkämpften Arbeitsmarkt eine zunehmende Zahl von Fachkräften rekrutieren zu müssen. Die Veröffentlichung von Stellenanzeigen stellt ein zentrales Element bei den Bemühungen des öffentlichen Sektors dar, diesem “War for Talent” zu begegnen. Diese Studi...

Tätigkeiten im öffentlichen Dienst bieten häufig die Möglichkeit, anderen zu helfen sowie einen Beitrag zum Gemeinwohl zu leisten. Diese als prosozialer und gesellschaftlicher Einfluss bezeichneten Eigenschaften, bieten ein großes Motivationspotenzial. Oftmals gewöhnen sich Beschäftigte allerdings an diese positiven Aspekte ihrer Tätigkeit und der...

The rise of behavioral public administration provides new perspectives – especially from a psychological point of view – to understand public administration theories and the growing interest in using experiments to enhance the internal validity of empirical studies. However, psychology and other social sciences are undergoing a replication crisis w...

The authors examine whether conformity towards prevailing public opinions and pre-existing blame influences citizens’ attribution of blame for public service failure, by using a between-group experimental design with five groups. Two groups received information cues mentioning different public opinions. Two additional groups received information on...

Self-reported measures of leadership are widely used in public management research, but nonresponse bias poses a threat to the validity of these data. Although this measurement problem is acknowledged, it has received limited empirical attention because nonresponse bias is inherently challenging to study. To address this issue, we examine nonrespon...

When pressure on human resource departments to make government more efficient is increasing, it is of great relevance to understand employees’ motivation and the fit of an employee with their job, as both contribute strongly to service performance. Therefore, this chapter discusses the role of public employees’ motivation and its relationship to in...

Although paradoxes are inherent to the public sector, few attempts have been made to better understand how to manage such competing yet interrelated demands effectively. This study examines how paradoxical leadership (i.e., leaders’ sense-giving about organizational paradoxes) affects follower outcomes. Based on two-wave survey data from German dis...

While research on the dysfunctional uses of performance data is growing, we are still in search of theories that go beyond system-specific explanations and address data manipulation behavior at the level of the employee. In this article, we conceptualize different gaming responses to performance systems and test a model of performance cheating that...

Leadership research tends to treat differences among ratings of the same leaders as measurement error. Our study makes such varying perceptions of leadership behaviour its main phenomenon of investigation. We conceptualize divergent leadership ratings based on the difference between managers’ self-ratings and team members’ assessments of leadership...

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Job advertisements are a crucial first step in the recruitment process. Public sector organizations overwhelmingly rely on passive recruitment tactics such as written notices, listing formal rules and legal processes, and excessive application procedures. Little is known about the signals these formal rules and procedures send to potential applican...

Recent developments in the social sciences have demonstrated that we cannot uncritically aggregate the published research on a particular effect to conclude about its presence or absence. Instead, questionable research practices such as p ‐hacking (conducting additional analyses or collecting new data to obtain significant results) and selective pu...

This is the synposis of my Habilitation dissertation. The Habilitation focuses on two aspects vital for any organization: the motivation of its members and the leadership behavior of those responsible for supervising others. The two concepts---motivation and leadership---are studied in a specific type of organizations: public administrations. Both...

While previous research has shown that organizational social capital benefits organizations and creates performance gains, most of this work examined this relationship at the macro level based on organizational aggregates. In this article, we study organizational social capital effects at the micro level, that is, its impact on important work-relat...

The introduction of performance-related pay (PRP) in the public sector has been one of the main trends in public management reform in the last two decades. However, it seems that PRP regimes have been loosened or even backed off the reform agenda, often with the notion that they were not used as planned, failed to deliver, and ultimately were stall...

Tätigkeiten im öffentlichen Dienst bieten häufig die Möglichkeit, anderen zu helfen sowie einen Beitrag zum Gemeinwohl zu leisten. Diese als prosozialer und gesellschaftlicher Einfluss bezeichneten Eigenschaften, bieten ein großes Motivationspotenzial. Oftmals gewöhnen sich Beschäftigte allerdings an diese positiven Aspekte ihrer Tätigkeit und der...

Leadership research tends to treat differences among ratings of the same leaders as measurement error. Our study makes such varying perceptions of leadership behaviour its main phenomenon of investigation. We conceptual-ize divergent leadership ratings based on the difference between managers' self-ratings and team members' assessments of leadershi...

Personalbeurteilung wird in der öffentlichen Verwaltung seit langer Zeit betrieben. Im Rahmen der Einführung der leistungsorientierten Bezahlung (LOB) hat sich ihre Bedeutung jedoch erheblich gesteigert. Der Beitrag erörtert die konzeptionellen Grundlagen der beiden Instrumente und geht anschließend auf das theoretische Fundament und die empirische...

The authors examine whether conformity towards prevailing public opinions and preexisting blame influences citizens' attribution of blame for public service failure, by using a between-group experimental design with five groups. Two groups received information cues mentioning different public opinions. Two additional groups received information on...

While previous research has shown that organizational social capital benefits organizations and creates performance gains, most of this work examined this relationship at the macro level based on organizational aggregates. In this article, we study organizational social capital effects at the micro level, that is, its impact on important work-relat...

Performance pay has been one of the main trends in public sector reform over the last decade and aims to increase employees’ motivation. However, positive results are sparse. In a majority of cases, pay scheme designers neglect that intrinsic motivation may be distorted by the introduction of extrinsic rewards (crowding out). Nevertheless, under ce...

There is a broad academic discussion about the impact of funding grants from a foundation or a government department on individual support intentions toward the nonprofit organization receiving the grant. However, the role of the grant provider's reputation has frequently been overlooked. In this study, we experimentally tested whether there is a r...

A gap in research on prosocial motivation is that very little is known about its change across time, let alone, how such changes affect employee behavior. Using multiple waves of panel data, covering a period of sixteen years, this article finds that prosocial motivation is mostly stable, and there are no broader socialization effects in the privat...

A gap in research on prosocial motivation is that very little is known about its change across time, let alone, how such changes affect employee behavior. Using multiple waves of panel data, covering a period of sixteen years, this article finds that prosocial motivation is mostly stable, and there are no broader socialization effects in the privat...

Viele atmen beim Thema Führung erst einmal tief ein. In der Wissenschaft, weil man sich sehr schnell zwischen der fast unendlichen Menge an Führungstheorien und -ansätzen verlieren kann. In der Praxis, weil Führung in der Verwaltung schon lange ein heikles Thema ist und nicht selten als zentrale Schwachstelle der Verwaltungsar-beit betrachtet wird....

In many cases, public management researchers’ focus lies in phenomena, embedded in a hierarchical context. Conducting surveys and analyzing subsequent data requires a way to identify which responses belong to the same entity. This might be, for example, members of the same team or data from different organizational levels. It can be very difficult...

Purpose In many cases, public management researchers’ focus lies in phenomena, embedded in a hierarchical context. Conducting surveys and analyzing subsequent data require a way to identify which responses belong to the same entity. This might be, for example, members of the same team or data from different organizational levels. It can be very di...

Forschungsfrage: Was bedeutet Führung im öffentlichen Sektor, wie wird dort geführt und wie unterscheidet sich der öffentliche Sektor vom Privatsektor?Methodik: Schriftliche Befragung von 64 Führungskräften und 464 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Praktische Implikationen: Führung im öffentlichen Sektor unterscheidet s...

Seit einiger Zeit lässt dich beobachten, dass dem Thema Führung in Verwaltungspraxis und -forschung immer mehr Bedeutung beigemessen wird. Dies soll zum Anlass genommen werden, den aktuellen Stand der Führungsforschung im öffentlichen Sektor in Deutschland zusammenzufassen, Entwicklungen nachzuzeichnen und Forschungslücken aufzuzeigen. Insgesamt lä...

Forschungsfrage: Was bedeutet Führung im öffentlichen Sektor, wie wird dort geführt und wie unterscheidet sich der öffentliche Sektor vom Privatsektor? Methodik: Schriftliche Befragung von 64 Führungskräften und 464 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Praktische Implikationen: Führung im öffentlichen Sektor unterscheidet...

Seit einiger Zeit lässt sich beobachten, dass dem Thema Führung in Verwaltungspraxis und -forschung immer mehr Bedeutung beigemessen wird. Dies soll zum Anlass genommen werden, den aktuellen Stand der Führungsforschung im öffentlichen Sektor in Deutschland zusammenzufassen, Entwicklungen nachzuzeichnen und Forschungslücken aufzuzeigen. Insgesamt lä...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit Führungsverhalten im öffentlichen Sektor sowie mit Einflussfaktoren auf dieses Führungsverhalten. Hierzu wurde eine Taxonomie, bestehend aus sechs Metakategorien von Führungsverhalten, entwickelt. Die Metakategorien umfassen Aufgaben-, Beziehungs-, Veränderungs-, Außen-, Ethik- und Sachbearbeitungsorientierun...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit Führungsverhalten im öffentlichen Sektor sowie mit Einflussfaktoren auf dieses Führungsverhalten. Hierzu wurde eine Taxonomie, bestehend aus sechs Metakategorien von Führungsverhalten, entwickelt. Die Metakategorien umfassen Aufgaben-, Beziehungs-, Veränderungs-, Außen-, Ethik- und Sachbearbeitungsorientierun...

The introduction of performance-related pay (PRP) in the public sector has been one of the main trends in public management reform in the last two decades. However, it seems that PRP regimes have been loosened or even taken off the reform agenda, often with the notion that they were not used as planned, failed to deliver, and ultimately were stalle...

Fostering leadership behavior in the public sector is one of the main challenges of contemporary public personnel management. In addition, leadership behavior is also of growing interest for public administration research. Based on role theory, this article addresses the influence of supervisors’ interest and expectations on first-level managers’ lea...

Dieser Artikel adressiert zwei bisher nur wenig untersuchte Aspekte der Führungsforschung: Führungsverhalten im öffentlichen Sektor und Faktoren die Führungsverhalten beeinflussen. Mittels einer Fallstudie in der Bundesagentur für Arbeit werden explorativ Hypothesen über Einflussfaktoren des Führungsverhaltens aufgestellt. Die Studie kommt zu der E...

This paper focuses on similarities and differences in premises and objectives of performance related pay regimes. Reform concepts like performance related pay have a tendency to be evaluated and designed towards a functional rationale, in that regard PRP is described as a tool that helps to strengthen a performance orientation in personnel manageme...

This paper focuses on similarities and differences in premises and objectives of performance related pay regimes. Reform concepts like performance related pay have a tendency to be evaluated and designed towards a functional rationale, in that regard PRP is described as a tool that helps to strengthen a performance orientation in personnel manageme...

This article focuses on two aspects of leadership research in the public sector which have received little attention so far. Firstly, leadership behavior in the public sector and secondly, its influencing factors. Based on an embedded case study of the German federal employment agency ("Bundesagentur für Arbeit") hypotheses on influencing factors o...

Bestehende Forschung hat gezeigt, dass die Reformbereitschaft von Fuhrungskraften eine wichtige Voraussetzung fur die erfolgreiche Umsetzung von Veranderungsprojekten ist. Dieser Artikel geht der Frage nach, wie erklart werden kann, warum einige Fuhrungskrafte in der offentlichen Verwaltung reformbereiter sind als andere. Er greift dabei auf eine F...

This paper examines the relationship between strategic management and organizational performance. It elaborates on the finding that there is only little empirical evidence on the effect of strategy on performance in the public sector literature. In order to get a better understanding of this relationship, we suggest studying not only the direct but...