Purpose – Since the early 1980s, western governments are assumed to have been either moving toward post-bureaucratic models or transforming into so-called neo-Weberian bureaucracies. As different public-sector (reform) models imply different ideal typical personality traits for civil servants, the purpose of this paper is to ask the question to what extent personality requirements that governments demand from their employees have evolved over time in line with these models. Design/methodology/approach – The authors analyzed the use of big-five traits in a sample of 21,003 job advertisements for local government jobs published between 1980 and 2017, applying tools for computer-assisted text analysis. Findings – Using multilevel regression analyses, the authors conclude that, over time, there is a significant increase in the use of personality descriptors related to all big-five factors. Research limitations/implications – The authors postulate that governments nowadays are actively looking for the “renaissance bureaucrat” in line with the neo-Weberian bureaucracy paradigm. The authors end with a discussion of both positive and negative consequences of this development. Originality/value – First, the authors explicitly link personality, public administration, and public management using the Abridged Big-Five-Dimensional Circumflex model of personality. Second, by linking observed trends in civil servant personality requirements to larger theories of public-sector reform models, the authors narrow the gap between public administration theories and practice. Third, the software tools that the authors use to digitalize and analyze a large number of documents (the job ads) are new to the discipline of public administration. The research can therefore serve as a guideline for scholars who want to use software tools to study large amounts of unstructured, qualitative data

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寻找文艺复兴时期的官僚

目的–自1980年代初以来，西方政府被认为要么朝着后官僚制转变，要么正在转变成所谓的新韦伯式官僚机构。由于不同的公共部门（改革）模式对公务员而言意味着不同的理想典型人格特征，因此本文的目的是提出一个问题，即政府对雇员的人格要求随着这些模型的发展在多大程度上发展了。设计/方法/方法-作者在1980年至2017年间发布的21,003个地方政府职位招聘广告样本中分析了五种特质的使用，并使用了计算机辅助文本分析工具。研究结果–作者使用多级回归分析得出结论，随着时间的流逝，与所有五大因素相关的人格描述符的使用量显着增加。研究的局限性/意义–作者假设当今的政府正在积极寻找符合新韦伯式官僚制范式的“文艺复兴时期官僚”。作者最后讨论了这种发展的积极和消极后果。独创性/价值–首先，作者使用删节的大五维抑扬特律模型将人格，公共行政和公共管理明确联系起来。其次，通过将观察到的公务员人格要求趋势与更大的公共部门改革模型理论联系起来，作者缩小了公共行政理论与实践之间的差距。第三，作者用于数字化和分析大量文档（招聘广告）的软件工具对于公共管理领域来说是新的。因此，该研究可以为希望使用软件工具研究大量非结构化，定性数据的学者提供指导。