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Public Service Motivation Measurement

Administration and Society, 2007
This article proposes and tests a three-dimension, shortened instrument for public service motivation based on Perry's (1996) exploratory 24-item scale. A confirmatory factor analysis is used with both a diagonally weighted least squares and a modified version of maximum likelihood estimation that are more appropriate for ordinal indicators.
Sanjay K Pandey
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Public Service Motivation and Public Opinion

2021
Practitioners, policymakers, and scholars across fields and disciplines seek to understand factors that shape public opinion and public service values, especially in today's polarized context. Yet we know little about how the two relate. Research on public service motivation (PSM), a drive to help others grounded in public institutions, has grown to ...
Jaclyn S. Piatak, Stephen B. Holt
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Does Public Service Motivation Adapt?

Kyklos, 2010
SUMMARY Theoretical arguments highlight the importance of Public Service Motivation (PSM) in underpinning employment relationships in the public sector, mainly based on the presumption that many aspects of public service provision are non-contractible.
Georgellis, Y, Tabvuma, V
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Exploring Determinants of Work Motivation in Public Service: The Influence of Organizational Context and Public Service Motivation

MECOSAN, 2018
L’articolo si propone di investigare come sia il contesto organizzativo sia la Public Service Motivation possano influenzare la soddisfazione al lavoro e il commitment organizzativo. Attraverso la somministrazione di un questionario inviato ai lavoratori impiegati in uno dei piu grandi ospedali italiani, l’analisi mostra che sia il contesto ...
Danila Scarozza, Denita Cepiku, Alessandro Hinna, Alessandro Peluso   +3 more
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Crowding Out Public Service Motivation

2008
Employing workers with Public Service Motivation (PSM) has been proposed as a means of improving performance in the public sector. There is, however, no conclusive evidence showing PSM among individuals. In this paper we attempt to firstly find evidence of PSM by investigating why people change jobs from the private to the public sector.
Georgellis, Y, Iossa, E, Tabvuma, V
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THE PERSISTENCE OF PUBLIC SERVICE MOTIVATION [PDF]

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Modern Approaches in Organisational Management and Economy 2011, 2011
Romanian public organisations did not emphasized modern motivation techniques of the public servants. They still use the traditional top-down, superior-subordinated approach that has a low degree of participation in the objectives setting and as a result, a low commitment of the employee.
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Antecedents of Public Service Motivation

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 1997
Public administration practitioners and educators have long contended that public employees are different from employees in other sectors of American society. Conventional wisdom and empirical evidence that public employees are different led Perry and Wise to define a construct, public service motivation (PSM), intended to capture the distinction. At a
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Public Service Motivation

2023
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Public Service Motivation and Paternalism

2015
This paper sets out to investigate the association between PSM and paternalism among representatives from a professional organization and trade union which negotiates pay and working conditions for their members, e.g. an organizational setting which is based on membership democracy.
Holm Pedersen, Lene, Qvistgaard, Lars
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A Theory of Public Service Motivation

2003
AbstractUses the material from the two previous chapters to develop a new theory of public service motivation. The theory allocates a key role to the sacrifice involved in performing altruistic acts, arguing that the degree of sacrifice is positively related to the amount of altruistic acts undertaken (at least up to a point).
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