On 4 April at 9:00, there will be a 3rd year PhD presentation by Mette Østergaard Pedersen entitled "How perceived organisational reputation relates to employee outcomes: Looking in the mirror, what do I see?"

Supervisors
Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen & Lotte Bøgh Andersen (Dept. of Political Science)

Discussants:
Anders Ryom Villadsen & Anne Mette Kjeldsen (Dept. of Political Science)

Abstract
My PhD dissertation examines the concept of (public) reputation management. I develop a conceptualization and validate a measurement scale of reputation management within a framework of bureaucratic reputation theory, and investigate how reputation management relates to employee outcomes, organizational reputation and employee perceived organizational reputation. Organizational reputation refers to external audiences' beliefs about an organization’s reputation whereas employee perceived organizational reputation captures employees’ own perceptions of these beliefs.

The fourth paper of my PhD dissertation explores the relationship between employee perceived organizational reputation and three employee outcomes; public service motivation, organizational identification and job satisfaction. The empirical analysis is based on survey responses from 193 employees in three Danish agencies in a two-wave panel data design.

In my third year presentation, I will present the fourth paper’s theoretical expectations and results, and discuss limitations and implications. Furthermore, I will introduce my overall dissertation and how this paper integrates and contributes to it.

Everyone is welcome!