The INA Award for Best Research on Public Administration (Melhor Investigação sobre Administração Pública) wants to encourage research and generate discussion ontopics that contribute to an increase in the knowledge of workers and leaders in Public Administration.
The National Institute for Public Administration (INA) announced the second edition of the INA Award for Best Research on Public Administration. It’s an award created to recognize and distinguish research studies developed in the area of public administration in Portugal.
The launch of this second edition is an opportunity for INA to encourage research and the production of knowledge about public administration, to promote topics that contribute to increasing the knowledge of workers and leaders in this sector, and to distinguish high quality research work in the Public Administration.
Applications are open until midnight on May 31, 2023 to all individuals who have defended a Master’s degree dissertation or doctoral theses in higher education institutions in Portugal between the years 2021 and 2023.
The ceremony to announce the results and deliver the award will be held on November 22, where the winner will receive a cash prize of EUR 2,000 in addition to the publication of the research study by the Institute’s publishing company, INA Editora, and its dissemination in INA’s digital communication channels.
In 2022, for the first edition of the award, Marcelo Vegi da Conceição was the winner with his study on ’The Impact of Job Design on the Innovative Behaviors and Work Engagement of Portuguese Public Managers’ (O Impacto do Job Design sobre os Comportamentos Inovadores e o Work Engagement de Gestores Públicos Portugueses). INA also awarded two honorable mentions to Hélder José Fernandes dos Santos for the study ‘Impact of motivation on public service turnover intentions: the moderating role of the type of employment contract’ and to Paulo Fernando Gonçalves Amaral Antunes, for the study ‘Tactical Leadership Competencies in the Operationalization of Organizational Strategy in Health Unitis in Portugal’.
