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The impact of management controls on public managers’ well‐being
Author(s) -
Siverbo Sven
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
financial accountability and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.661
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1468-0408
pISSN - 0267-4424
DOI - 10.1111/faam.12290
Subject(s) - clarity , public sector , business , control (management) , management control system , government (linguistics) , work (physics) , public relations , new public management , test (biology) , public management , marketing , political science , economics , management , mechanical engineering , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , law , biology , engineering
Public sector managers are increasingly subject to management controls. In this study, we determine how management controls in public sector organizations influence managers’ well‐being at work. Based on central beliefs and concepts in the management control literature and self‐determination theory, we develop, test, and confirm a theoretical model predicting that positive effects of management controls on public managers’ well‐being are explained by increased role clarity and negative effects by increased control burden, which in turn affects managers’ self‐determination. The model was tested through web survey responses from 1,029 managers from ten Swedish local government organizations. Our research contributes to the literature on well‐being effects of management controls by specifying how positive and negative effects on managers’ well‐being occur.