Does Public Service Motivation Really Make a Difference on the Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions of Public Employees?

By Leonard Bright. 2008

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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Red Tape, Resigned Satisfaction, Public Service Motivation, and Negative Employee Attitudes and Behaviors (2015, methodology): “While several previous studies suggest that PSM positively affects work-relevant attitudes (Bright, 2008; Steijn, 2008; Vandenabeele, 2009), our study is among the first few that demonstrate the dark side of PSM. Individuals working in public organizations encompass different public service…”
Public Service Motivation, User Orientation, and Job Satisfaction: A Question of Employment Sector? (2013, methodology): “However, we have chosen to still include it as a control variable because some studies indicate that there may be a relationship between job satisfaction and education (Bright 2008, 160; Naff and Crum 1999, 12).”
Street-level bureaucrats’ turnover intention: does public service motivation matter? (2017, methodology): “For example, Bright (2008) found that the person–organization fit was a significant variable in explaining government employees’ turnover intention and that the influence of job satisfaction on turnover intention became insignificant when the person–organization fit was included in the empirical…”
Testing the mediation effect of person–organization fit on the relationship between high performance HR practices and employee outcomes in the Egyptian public sector (2014, background): “P-O fit: the mechanism linking HPHRP to employee outcomes P-O fit is one of the most widely studied topics in the fields of organizational behaviour and general management (Bright 2008).”
The mediating effect of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on self-reported performance: more robust evidence of the PSM—performance relationship (2009, background): “This combination of PSM and of person–environment fit has already been investigated theoretically (Vandenabeele, 2007) and empirically (Bright, 2007, 2008; Steijn, 2008; Taylor, 2008; Vandenabeele, 2008b), but some methodological and conceptual issues need to be sorted out before these analyses can…”
Sense of community, sense of community responsibility, organizational commitment and identification, and public service motivation: a simultaneous test of affective states on employee well-being and engagement in a public service work context (2020, background): “Bright (2008) investigated the relationship of PSM to worker satisfaction, finding no direct relationship for PSM after controlling for person-environment fit. Also, Quratulain and Khan (2015) found that PSM can actually exacerbate negative employee attitudes and behaviour for employees working in s”
Determinants of Whistleblowing Within Government Agencies (2015, background): “Perceived organizational support (POS) is positively related to affective commitment, OCBs, cooperation, and job satisfaction (Randall, Cropanzano, Bormann, & Birjulin, 1999; Rhoades & Eisenberger, 2002).”
On passion and heavy work investment: personal and organizational outcomes (2013, background): “Turnover intentions reflect how workers foresee their employment (Bright, 2008) and commitment to their work, organization, or profession.”
Person–Organization Fit and Turnover Intention: Exploring the Mediating Role of Employee Followership and Job Satisfaction Through Conservation of Resources Theory (2016, methodology): “P-O fit was measured using four items from Bright (2008) whose items were developed from a review of prior research (e.g., C. I. O’Reilly & Chatman, 1986).”
A meta-analysis of the relationship between public service motivation and job satisfaction (2015, methodology): “As mentioned in the introduction, mixed fi ndings have been produced regarding the PSM–job satisfaction relationship (Bright 2008; Steijn 2008; Taylor 2008).”
Does Public Service Motivation Mediate the Relationship between Goal Clarity and both Organizational Commitment and Extra-Role Behaviours? (2016, result): “The author’s reasoning was that unlike the United States, ‘PSM does not function as an effective sorting mechanism in Korea’ (836–7).”
Public sector motivation ad fonts : Personality traits as antecedents of the motivation to serve the public interest (2017, methodology): “This measure has been used in several studies (see, for example, Bright, 2008; Taylor, 2007).”
Work-Related Stressors and Health-Related Outcomes in Public Service (2015, methodology): “Most studies so far have used this approach (e.g., Bright, 2008; Christensen & Wright, 2011).”
Organizational Control Systems and Pay-for-Performance in the Public Service (2013, methodology): “Following these ideas, Bright (2007, 2008) establishes person-organization fit as a mediator between public service motivation and performance.”
Motivating Employees of the Public Sector: Does Public Service Motivation Matter? (2010, background): “They will also be more satisfied with their jobs (Naff and Crum 1999; Bright 2008; Taylor 2007; Taylor 2008).”