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REVIEW OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 544-569Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X18758378
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politicization; performance; civil service; patronage; human resource management practices
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Since politicization persists, threatening public sector governance and management, there is a need to further understand this phenomenon and its consequences. Previous empirical studies conducted predominantly in the United States have found a negative impact of politicization on performance; however, the reasons behind this relationship remain elusive. In this article, we inquire into the effect of politicization on organizational performance, and we propose that such influence can be explained by a deterioration of human resource management (HRM) practices. Using data from a national survey of municipal managers and mayors in Chile, our results confirm the negative impact of politicization on the performance of public agencies, which is partially mediated by politicization's deleterious effect on their HRM practices.
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