Public-Sector Work Motivation: A Review of the Current Literature and a Revised Conceptual Model

By Bradley E. Wright. 2001

469 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Management Information Systems

1. Jeannette Taylor
2. L. B. Andersen
3. Adam M. Grant
4. N. V. van Loon
5. R. Clerkin
6. Jerrell D. Coggburn
7. A. Kjeldsen
8. Lepora J. Manigault

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. L. B. Andersen
2. A. Kjeldsen
3. W. Vandenabeele
4. Jeannette Taylor
5. Bradley E. Wright
6. R. Clerkin
7. Jerrell D. Coggburn
8. N. V. van Loon

In Public Administration

1. A. Kjeldsen
2. L. B. Andersen
3. W. Vandenabeele
4. Jeannette Taylor
5. Bradley E. Wright
6. J. Caillier
7. R. Clerkin
8. Jerrell D. Coggburn

Citations in the corpus

• Exploring the Relationships Among Trust, Employee Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment (2011, background): “…aspect, in that it presents the total evaluation of workers based on what they received, and organizational commitment is a prospective aspect of motivation, in that committed workers will expand effort for their organizations beyond their job descriptions (Allen and Meyer 1990; Wright 2001).”
• GENXERS VERSUS BOOMERS: Work Motivators and Management Implications (2006, background): “Job characteristics that have been expected to improve employee work motivation include “autonomy, feedback, variety, task significance, task identity, and challenge” (Wright, 2001, p. 574).”
• Public Service Motivation and Interpersonal Citizenship Behavior in Public Organizations: Testing a Preliminary Model (2008, unknown): “While parsimony in theorizing is desirable, this presumption about direct causation needs further scrutiny (Lee and Olshfski 2002; Wright 2001).”
• Government Employees (2004, background): “Some theories focus on individual characteristics such as human needs, values, and attitudes (Pinder, 1998), whereas others emphasize environmental factors such as job characteristics and work context (Wright, 2001).”
• Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms (2012, background): “21See, for example, Francois (2000), who deals with public sector motivation from the vantage point of economics, or the recent survey on public sector motivation in the literature on public administration by Wright (2001).”
• Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management (2008, background): “Similar differences have been found between public and private sector employees, see in addition to the studies mentioned in footnote 4 e.g. Crewson (1997), Houston (2000), and Lewis and Frank (2002); Rainey and Bozeman (2000) and Wright (2001) provide overviews.”
• Understanding Affective Organizational Commitment (2011, unknown): “Wright, B. E. (2001).”
• The Dimensions of Public Service Motivation and Sector Work Preferences (2012, methodology): “…it is surprising that there have been relatively few studies explicitly examining the link between PSM and individuals’ employment sector preferences (Bright, 2011; Wright & Christensen, 2010; Perry et al., 2008; Tschirhart et al., 2008; Vandenabeele, Hondeghem, & Steen, 2004; Wright, 2001).”
• Motivating Employees in a New Governance Era: The Performance Paradigm Revisited (2006, background): “…and Pinder (2005) , Locke and Latham (2002), Mento, Steel, and Karren (1987), O ’ Leary-Kelly, Martocchio, and Frink (1994), Rodgers and Hunter (1991, 1992), Tubbs (1986) , Woff ord, Goodwin, and Premack (1992), Wood, Mento, and Locke (1987), Wright (1990, 2001), and Zetik and Stuhlmacher (2002) .”
• Incentives and Workers' Motivation in the Public Sector (2004, unknown): “…research showing that a significant part of the civil work force has a public service motivation,1 there 1The literature is not fully conclusive (Wright, 2001), but the emerging picture is that civil servants are less motivated by high pay than their private sector counterparts, 2 exists little…”
• Job Satisfaction In The Public Sector (2003, background): “In fact, although a considerable amount of empirical evidence of public versus private sector differences in specific facets of job satisfaction has been found, the strength and direction of these differences has varied (Wright, 2001).”
• Organizational Influences, Public Service Motivation and Work Outcomes: An Australian Study (2008, background): “Although many public organizations have missions that provide considerable opportunities for altruistic acts, the very structure of these organizations can hinder the achievement of these opportunities (Wise 2000; Wright 2001).”
• Public Service Motivation, User Orientation, and Job Satisfaction: A Question of Employment Sector? (2013, background): “Other factors include outside constraints (e.g., time, financial resources, organizational requirements), work conditions (e.g., good relationships with co-workers=supervisors and promotion opportunities), and individual skills and abilities (Rainey 1997; Wright 2001).”