Public Service Motivation and the Assumption of Person—Organization Fit

By Bradley E. Wright, Sanjay K. Pandey. 2008

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

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Toward a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Transformational Leadership, Public Service Motivation, Mission Valence, and Employee Performance (2014, background): “…scholars have frequently used only five of the items subsumed under its affective and normative values, for the reason that they are more associated with commitment, compassion, and self-sacrifice (Alonso & Lewis, 2001; Brewer & Selden, 2000; Kim, 2005; Wright et al., 2012; Wright & Pandey, 2008).”
Does Public Service Motivation Always Lead to Organizational Commitment? Examining the Moderating Roles of Intrinsic Motivation and Ethical Leadership (2017, background): “Indeed, PSM scholars have suggested that the P-E fit is the missing link that could explain the mixed findings about the relationship between PSM and outcomes (e.g., Bright, 2007; Ryu, 2014; Wright & Pandey, 2008).”
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): “One of the key debates in the current literature revolves around whether PSM is best conceptualized as a direct or indirect predictor of employee behaviour and job satisfaction (Bright 2008; Nowell et al. 2016; Wright and Pandey 2008; Van Loon et al. 2018).”
Does Public Service Motivation Mediate the Relationship between Goal Clarity and both Organizational Commitment and Extra-Role Behaviours? (2016, methodology): “This is because these items represent the normative and affective motives that make up altruism in the public sector (Wright and Pandey 2008).”
Clarifying the Relationship Between Public Service Motivation and In-Role and Extra-Role Behaviors: The Relative Contributions of Person-Job and Person-Organization Fit (2017, background): “Not all environments are able to provide such fit to the same degree for public service motivated employees to perform as even in the public domain organizations and jobs differ in their potential to contribute to society (Wright & Pandey, 2008).”
Public Service Motivation, User Orientation, and Job Satisfaction: A Question of Employment Sector? (2013, result): “This result is partly replicated in a study by Wright and Pandey (2011), who confirm a positive relationship between PSM and job satisfaction mediated by public employees’ perceived mission valence of the organization (see also Wright and Pandey 2008).”
Person–Organization Fit and Turnover Intention: Exploring the Mediating Role of Employee Followership and Job Satisfaction Through Conservation of Resources Theory (2016, methodology): “The items used capture the three dimensions—commitment to public interest, compassion, and self-sacrifice—identified by Perry that represent the affective or normative motives most closely associated with the altruistic appeal of public sector values (Wright & Pandey, 2008).”
A strategy for building public service motivation research internationally (2010, background): “First, some argue that the rational motives consider the possibility of self- interested motives (Wise 2000; Wright and Pandey 2008).”
Public sector motivation ad fonts : Personality traits as antecedents of the motivation to serve the public interest (2017, background): “The second non-affective motive is normative, and represents “an individual’s sense of obligation to the society in which he or she lives… as a result of feeling a duty to one’s government and community” (Wright and Pandey, 2008: 504), as is captured by PSM’s CPI dimension.”