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.

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管理控制对公共管理者幸福感的影响

公共部门经理越来越多地受到管理控制。在这项研究中，我们确定了公共部门组织中的管理控制如何影响管理者的工作幸福感。基于管理控制文献和自决理论中的核心信念和概念，我们开发、测试并确认了一个理论模型，该模型预测管理控制对公共管理者福祉的积极影响可以通过角色清晰度和消极影响的增加来解释通过增加控制负担，进而影响管理者的自决。该模型通过来自 10 个瑞典地方政府组织的 1,029 名管理人员的网络调查回复进行了测试。