What Drives Morally Committed Citizens? A Study of the Antecedents of Public Service Motivation

By J. Perry, Jeffrey L. Brudney, David H. Coursey, Laura Littlepage. 2008

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Subfields: Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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To Volunteer or Not (2015, background): “According to the hybrid theory of volunteering, both groups may be different in individual characteristics: (a) We expect volunteers to give greater importance to religiosity and altruistic values compared with non-volunteers (Forbes & Zampelli, 2014; Perry et al., 2008).”
Motivating Employees of the Public Sector: Does Public Service Motivation Matter? (2010, background): “In addition, PSM is not a public sector-specific measure of work motivation, but is rather a particular type of motivation, particularly prevalent in the public sector but also relevant for studying volunteers’ motivations (Clerkin, Paynter, and Taylor 2009; Perry et al. 2008; Steen 2006).”
Religion and Helping Others: The Role of Values, Ideas, and Language (2011, background): “Perry et al. (2008) and Colby and Damon (1992) came to similar conclusions, but they used selective samples of highly prosocial people only.”
The Dimensions of Public Service Motivation and Sector Work Preferences (2012, background): “Findings point to positive associations between PSM levels and individuals’ educational attainment (Bright, 2005; Moynihan & Pandey, 2007; Naff & Crum, 1999; Perry, 1997), age (Perry, 1997), religious activity (Perry, 1997; Perry et al., 2008), female gender (Bright, 2005; DeHart-Davis, Marlowe, & P”
Public service motivation and job satisfaction in China: An investigation of generalisability and instrumentality (2008, background): “Recently, the public service motivation construct has been used to determine what motivates public servants in the West (Perry, 1996, 1997, 2000; Taylor, 2007; Bright, 2007; Perry et al., 2008).”
Public sector motivation ad fonts : Personality traits as antecedents of the motivation to serve the public interest (2017, methodology): “In addition to these explanatory variables, three control variables considered in previous studies on the antecedents of PSM are included in the analysis (Moynihan and Pandey, 2007; Perry, 1997; Perry et al., 2008).”
Organizational Control Systems and Pay-for-Performance in the Public Service (2013, background): “There is an intense discussion about what motivates public sector employees (Moynihan & Pandey, 2007; Perry et al., 2008).”