in recent years, performance gap between private and public sector has affected researchers of public administration to pay attention to the concept of public service motivation. present research has been accomplished aiming at improving public service motivation among employees of public sector and is intended to identify effective factors on public service motivation. for this reason, 196 peo...

Th is article responds to recent calls for experimental research into the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and job performance. Th e author conducted a fi eld experiment with a sample of nurses at a public hospital in Italy to investigate the interplay between job performance, PSM, and two conditions: exposure to contact with benefi ciaries and self-persuasion interventions....

Public servants are expected to be good stewards of resources, including the energy and environmental resources consumed in a public organization’s day-to-day operations. Many government organizations have enacted policies to mitigate the environmental impact of their operations. Even in the absence of formal policies, however, individual public employees might engage in a number of discretiona...

A commonly held assumption is that public service motivation (PSM) positively affects individuals’ attraction to government, but there are also private and nonprofit organizations beneficial the common good. Therefore, goal of this study shed light on an understudied topic in Public Administration, namely, how value public, private, their attractiveness citizens PSM moderates relationship. We f...

We examine independent and joint influences of public service motivation (PSM), job prosocial impact, reward equity on employee engagement. Using panel data collected from 56 managers in Pakistan, we find that with high levels PSM feel more engaged when they experience but low impact or equity. Managers to moderate PSM, however, report being both are high. These findings provide a nuanced under...

Abstract This study explored the effects that organizational identity and perceptions of prestige have on relationship between public service motivation (PSM) employees’ concerns regarding external-related work stressors. Using a sample federal employees, findings reveal PSM has to stress were fully mediated by employee’s (OI) (POP). Public employees with high levels significantly more likely r...

Public service motivation (PSM) has provided a new breadth to the study of what attracts and retains workers in public organizations committed mission. The present research contributes topic by exploring local government workers’ for service, meaning they attribute their activity as servants, relations between PSM work (MOW). An adaptation scale Portuguese language context level administration ...

Abstract Democratic backsliding has multiplied “unprincipled” political principals: governments with weak commitment to the public interest. Why do some bureaucrats engage in voice and guerrilla sabotage thwart policies against interest under “unprincipled principals,” yet others not? Despite its centrality contemporary governance, this conundrum not seen quantitative research. We address gap s...