Public Service Motivation Concepts and Theory: A Critique

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Public Service Motivation, Prosocial Motivation and Altruism: Towards Disentanglement and Conceptual Clarity (2019, background): “The present study aims to provide an answer to Bozeman and Su’s (2015) call for more efforts to strengthen the concept of PSM in conjunction with related concepts.”
Work motivation and public service motivation: disentangling varieties of motivation and job satisfaction (2018, background): “Therefore, the necessity to create distinct boundaries of understanding between PSM and other organizational theories and their respective work-related outcomes is an important challenge in public sector research (Bozeman and Su 2014; Ritz, Brewer, and Neumann 2016).”
Public sector motivation ad fonts : Personality traits as antecedents of the motivation to serve the public interest (2017, background): “Recent research has highlighted the need to strengthen the theoretical foundations of PSM (Bozeman and Su, 2015).”
Does Public Service Motivation Always Lead to Organizational Commitment? Examining the Moderating Roles of Intrinsic Motivation and Ethical Leadership (2017, background): “The observed interaction also provides preliminary evidence about the distinctiveness of PSM and intrinsic motivation—a critical issue that has been raised by several scholars (Bozeman & Su, 2015; Gould-Williams & Esteve, 2015; Paarlberg & Lavigna, 2009).”