Florian Keppeler

Aarhus University | AU · Department of Political Science

Job advertisements signal employer value propositions (EVPs) that affect the interest in a job. Such job ads are designed by managers in public organizations. But do managers who design those job ads actually know which EVPs are more or less preferred by nursing recruits? We explore discrepancies between nursing recruits and managers in their relat...

Recruiting a robust healthcare workforce has become an urgent policy priority globally, as current vacancy levels pose a public health risk. Yet there is limited causal evidence on what works to recruit more healthcare workers, especially across an international labor market. In collaboration with Danish healthcare service providers, we randomly as...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are transforming public sector decision-making. However, most research conceptualizes AI as a form of specialized algorithmic decision support tool. In contrast, this study introduces the concept of human-AI ensembles, where humans and AI tackle the same tasks together, rather than specializing in certain p...

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...

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...

As a human capital crisis poses urgent challenges across multiple countries, public administration scholars and practitioners are concerned with recruitment and selection questions. Literature evolves with an increasing pace whereby clarity over the state‐of‐the art and gaps in recruitment and selection research in the public sector is needed to di...

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...

Applications based on artificial intelligence (AI) play an increasing role in the public sector and invoke political discussions. Research gaps exist regarding the disclosure effects—reactions to disclosure of the use of AI applications—and the deployment effect—efficiency gains in data savvy tasks. This study analyzes disclosure effects and explor...

Public employers struggle with recruiting talents and labor market competition. Research on the understudied topic of employer branding can help address this challenge. This study presents five large-scale, pre-registered field experiments (n = 155,634) aimed at increasing the number of individuals initially interested in a job at a public employer...

With the increasing availability of life-saving vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, government agencies face the challenge of promoting vaccine uptake. Thus, encouraging vaccine uptake marks an urgent policy challenge in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. This study builds on the theory of psychological ownership to design a behaviorally inspired l...

Public administration (PA) increasingly faces new and emerging challenges. To address such challenges, researchers can work collaboratively with practitioners to identify and address the most pressing issues. Intentionally establishing an ongoing dialogue not just between scholars and practitioners but between scholars, practitioners, and the commu...

(Postprint version available: https://osf.io/k7mta) This study introduces vertical pay dispersion, a prevailing equity issue in discussions of organizations and society, to public management research. Bridging tournament and equity theory with the publicness debate, the study analyses the role of publicness dimensions —ownership, funding, and contr...

Public sector recruitment is an urgent and prevailing challenge in both research and practice. Public employer branding is an important subject in the theoretical debate, but the mechanisms behind how certain signals of public employers affect individuals’ interest in a job are under‐researched. By bridging signaling theory, social identity theory,...

Studies of the performance effects of performance-related pay (PRP) and other-regarding motivations such as public service motivation (PSM) show that organizational goals and ownership structure play a crucial role, but these determinants are under-researched. In narrowing this gap, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are relevant research objects. Howe...

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3563720

This conference paper resulted in the following published article: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13324

FIT-Public Management-Studie zur Repräsentation von Frauen in Top-Managementorganen öffentlicher Unternehmen 2018

Aufsichtsgremien öffentlicher Unternehmen sind regelmäßig vor die Aufgabe gestellt, anspruchsvolle Vergütungsentscheidungen vorzubereiten und zu treffen. Regelungen in Public Corporate Governance Kodizes sehen bei der Vergütungsausgestaltung regelmäßig eine Berücksichtigung des Vergleichsumfelds vor. Vorliegender Beitrag liefert auf Basis einer Stu...

Die Thematik „Personal“ wird in struktureller Gesamtsicht immer noch unterschätzt und wiederholt zu einseitig aus Kostengesichtspunkten betrachtet. Der Beitrag liefert eine verdichtete Übersicht zur Bedeutung des Personalmanagements der öffentlichen Hand, zu theoretisch-konzeptionellen Zugängen und zu einigen aktuellen Herausforderungen. In der Zuk...

Dieser Beitrag veranschaulicht den konzeptionellen Ansatz eines integrierten Personalmanagements für Kernverwaltung und öffentliche Unternehmen durch die öffentliche Hand. Anhand konkreter Ansatzpunkte sowie Maßnahmen eines integrierten Personalmanagements werden Perspektiven für einen zukunftsfä- higen öffentlichen Dienst aufgezeigt. Eine integrie...

Employer attractiveness of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) gains in importance. We analyze empirical dato of 1,244 junior managers to explore which general and special work motives influence the perceived employer attractiveness of SOEs in comparison to the (core) administration and private enterprises. Results indicate that the special motivation o...

Employer attractiveness of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) gains in importance. We analyze empirical data of 1,244 junior managers to explore which general and special work motives influence the perceived employer attractiveness of SOEs in comparison to the (core) administration and private enterprises. Results indicate that the special motivation o...

Zusammenfassung Der Vergütung der Top-Managementmitglieder öffentlicher Unternehmen wird in der Diskussion um " gute " Unternehmensleitung/-überwachung bzw. Corporate Governance und Steuerung im Sinne der öffentlichen Hand besondere Bedeutung zugewiesen. Die Transparenz der Vergütung bei Top-Managementorganmitgliedern öffentlicher Unternehmen ist,...

Das Beteiligungsmanagement ist für Kommunen kein Nischenthema. Es besitzt besondere Relevanz, um öffentliche Leistungen für die Bürger/innen qualitätsgerecht,wirtschaftlich und nachhaltig anbieten zu können. Der Ausgestaltung der Vergütung von Top-Managementorganen öffentlicher Unternehmen wird in der Diskussion um Personalgewinnung, Personalerhalt...