Development of a Public Service Motivation Measurement Scale: Corroborating and Extending Perry's Measurement Instrument

By W. Vandenabeele. 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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HRM Practices, Intrinsic Motivators, and Organizational Performance in the Public Sector (2013, background): “New dimensions for specific institutional characteristics of the countries under scrutiny were developed by European scholars (Giauque, Ritz, Varone, Anderfuhren-Biget, & Waldner, 2011; Vandenabeele, 2008).”
Public sector motivation ad fonts : Personality traits as antecedents of the motivation to serve the public interest (2017, methodology): “Probably, PSM is determined not only by personal attributes, but also by institutional characteristics (Perry and Vandenabeele, 2008).”
Work-Related Stressors and Health-Related Outcomes in Public Service (2015, background): “Although scholars show increasing interest in the PSM research, the generalizability of Perry’s (1996) original scale is limited due to different social and institutional backgrounds (Kim, 2009; Vandenabeele, 2008a).”
Motivating Employees of the Public Sector: Does Public Service Motivation Matter? (2010, methodology): “The latter dimension was developed by Vandenabeele (2008a) to suit the European context.”
Leadership and public service motivation: a systematic synthesis (2021, background): “Liu et al. (2008) found little evidence of the compassion sub-dimension in China, and Vandenabeele (2008) noted the need for a fifth factor that considers democratic governance.”
The mediating effect of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on self-reported performance: more robust evidence of the PSM—performance relationship (2009, methodology): “PSM has been empirically linked to various outcome variables, both inside (see Vandenabeele, 2008b, for an overview) and outside (Brewer, 2003; Houston, 2006; Steen, 2008) the domain of public employment.”
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): “PSM is not only influenced and incentivized by institutions, but it also influences those institutions (Perry, 2000; Perry & Vandenabeele, 2008; Scott, 2001).”
The Psychological Mechanisms of Public Service Motivation (2016, methodology): “Although scholars insist that PSM is dynamic (Perry & Vandenabeele, 2008) and may change with tenure or age (Pandey & Stazyk, 2008), little empirical research has examined the dynamics of PSM.”
Public service motivation and job performance of public sector employees in the Netherlands (2009, background): “…theoretical assumptions underpinning PSM, a central one is that human behaviour is motivated not only by rational but also by affective and normative motives, and that human beings develop these motives through interactions with significant institutions (Perry, 2000; Perry and Vandenabeele, 2008).”
Public Service Motivation and Employment Sector: Attraction or Socialization? (2013, methodology): “…and high salary which are factors commonly associated with preference for public or private sector employment, respectively (measured on Likert-scales from 5=of crucial importance in my job to 1=not at all important), (Kilpatrick et al., 1964; Rainey, 1982; Vandenabeele, 2008a; Wittmer, 1991).”
Red Tape, Resigned Satisfaction, Public Service Motivation, and Negative Employee Attitudes and Behaviors (2015, background): “A successful match between an individual’s motivation to ensure wellbeing of other people and society and the opportunity to do so in the current job setting is likely to result in a high level of job satisfaction and intention to stay in the organization (Bright, 2008; Vandenabeele, 2008).”
Public Service Motivation, User Orientation, and Job Satisfaction: A Question of Employment Sector? (2013, background): “In contrast to the studies by Vandenabeele (2008a) and Andersen, Pallesen, and Pedersen (2011), we conceptualize user orientation and PSM as separate concepts, because there may be different dynamics between job satisfaction and motivation to help society on the one hand (PSM) and motivation to…”
Exploring the Job Demands–Resources Model of Work Engagement in Government: Bringing in a Psychological Perspective (2017, methodology): “This scale is an adapted version from the original scale of Perry (1996), which Vandenabeele (2008b) developed to make it compatible within contexts such as the Dutch public sector.”