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Individual Ambidexterity and Performance in the Public Sector: A Multilevel Analysis

Sebastian Kobarg · Jutta Wollersheim · Isabell Melanie Welpe · Matthias Spörrle

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Innovation and Knowledge Management Public Policy and Administration Research Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Abstract

In this study, we examine individual ambidexterity (i.e., individuals’ balanced pursuit of exploitative and explorative activities) in a public management context. In particular, we combine survey data from junior scholars and secondary data from the Center for Higher Education to investigate the role of individual ambidexterity in an academic context. We conduct multilevel analyses and find that individual ambidexterity is positively related to research performance, indicating that individual ambidexterity positively influences individual performance in the public sector. In addition, we observe a negative relationship between the supervisory ratio and research performance, indicating that having a lower number of employees supervised by a single person leads to lower performance in the public sector.

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