The Trapped Administrator: Effects of Job Insecurity and Policy Resistance Upon Commitment to a Course of Action

1 September 1979

journal article
Published by JSTOR in Administrative Science Quarterly

Vol. 24 (3) , 449
https://doi.org/10.2307/2989922

Abstract

This study operationalizes and tests Campbell's trapped administrator effect. In an experimental simulation, job insecurity and policy resistance were manip...

Keywords

TRAPPED ADMINISTRATOR
POLICY RESISTANCE
JOB INSECURITY
ACTION
COMMITMENT