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National Administrative Studies Project
A Survey of Managers in Public, Private, and
Non-Profit Organizations in Georgia and Illinois
NASP Ω
- New Directions
NASP-Omega is said to be Bozeman’s final attempt at a NASP
database. NASP-Omega is unique because it blends the goals of NASP-I and II
while addressing a few new themes of its own. NASP-Omega aims to collect data on
public, private, and nonprofit managers. It expands beyond a single state,
surveying managers in Georgia and Illinois, but does not have a national focus.
Unlike NASP-II, which focuses on a single functional agency (health and human
services), the NASP-Omega sample include managers from agencies and
organizations of numerous functions. Finally, NASP-Omega includes a section on
civic and political activity, two pages of questions on mentoring, and a section
requesting information about past career experiences. This job history section
includes a series of questions about each respondent’s previous three job
including type of work, sector, number of employees supervised, and tenure of
the position.
NASP-Omega has the potential to address a variety of
analyses such as:
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Testing public management theories and propositions on a
variety of themes;
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Examining variations across two states and multiple
organizational types and functional areas;
- Conducting studies on the impact of policy/political context on
organizational management and policy development;
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Examining career trajectories, in particular the effects
of sector change, tenure in a specific sector, and previous work experience;
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Assessing the roles of civic and political activities;
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Testing mentoring theories.
The NASP Omega data were developed from ISERF
grants from the Ivan Allen College of the Georgia Institute of Technology to
Barry Bozeman and Gordon Kingsley. The research findings do not necessarily
reflect the views of Georgia Institute of Technology. |
