The Role of Work Context in Work Motivation: A Public Sector Application of Goal and Social Cognitive Theories

By Bradley E. Wright. 2004

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Administration

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Finding Workable Levers Over Work Motivation (2007, positive): “Such clarity also positively affects employee attitudes, and our results support similar findings on job satisfaction (Wright & Davis, 2002) and work motivation (Wright, 2003).”
Motivating Employees of the Public Sector: Does Public Service Motivation Matter? (2010, methodology): “Two items measuring the generic concept of work motivation were adapted from Wright’s study because of a previous test in a civil-servant work setting (Wright 2004).”
Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Public Service Motivation and Job Performance (2013, background): “Self-effi cacy, in turn, has proved to be a powerful motivator (Bandura 1994; Davidson and Eden 2000; Wright 2004, 2007) that is capable of increasing “effort, persistence, strategizing” (Heslin and Klehe 2006, 705), which are predictors of high performance (Bandura 1997; Stajkovic and Luthans…”
The Psychological Mechanisms of Public Service Motivation (2016, background): “Simultaneously, scholars insist that job security is one of the key motivators to individuals who choose to enter the public sector for work (Perry & Porter, 1982; Perry & Wise, 1990; Vandenabeele, 2008b; Wright, 2004).”
MOTIVATION AND ACHIEVEMENT: IS THERE AN EAST ASIAN MODEL? (2011, neutral): “…general low R-squared values indicate that motivation is just one of the many factors which influence students’ learning process as well as their learning outcome, and similar arguments were echoed in the literature (e.g. Broussard, 2002; Li & Pan, 2009; Lim & Yeon, 2009; Rose, 2007; Wright, 2004).”
Understanding Public and Nonprofit Managers' Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory (2013, background): “We select work motivation as the main dependent variable in part because it requires a unique distinctive research agenda to broaden the knowledge base of the motivational context in the public sector (Wright, 2001, 2007).”
Employees without a Cause: The Motivational Effects of Prosocial Impact in Public Service (2008, background): “Existing models of public service motivation have been limited by either a focus on individualistic goals and incentives (Perry 2000; Wright 2001; 2004) without sufficient consideration of the prosocial purpose of public service (Houston 2000), or an emphasis on enduring dispositions toward public…”
When Does Public Service Motivation Fuel the Job Satisfaction Fire? The Joint Moderation of Person–Organization Fit and Needs–Supplies Fit (2015, background): “Researchers have used value congruence or person–organization fit which focuses on individuals’ perception of their compatibility with the organization’s culture and members (Cable and DeRue 2002; Kristof 1996) as a mediator to explain the effects of public service motivation on workrelated outcomes”
Red Tape, Resigned Satisfaction, Public Service Motivation, and Negative Employee Attitudes and Behaviors (2015, methodology): “A three-item measure adapted from Wright (2004) was used to assess the employees’ perceived red tape.”