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Bureaucracy and Personality: Does Employee Ethnicity Matter?

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Behavior; Character; Civil servant; Cultural background; Public sector

Definitions

Bureaucracies are the fabric upon which society is organized. They are the functional arm that implements government programs and policies.

Societies comprise of people from diverse ethnicities. Ethnicity represents various ways of identifying people with respect to their cultural heritage.

Personality explains the characteristics that make an individual unique. Example of such characteristics includes the individual’s ethnicity.

Introduction

Bureaucracies affect every stage of the existence of an individual: from the stage of birth and in most instances death (hospitals) to the stage of learning and skills development (educational institutions) (Cohen 1970). Bureaucracies also play a significant role in society as the single largest employer of labor in most countries. In view of the significance of bureaucracies for societal existence, there has been a growing call for such organizations to...

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  1. Huddersfield Business School, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

    Dennis Gabriel Pepple, Eleanor Davies & Julie Davies

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

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Pepple, D.G., Davies, E., Davies, J. (2018). Bureaucracy and Personality: Does Employee Ethnicity Matter?. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3403-1

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