Person-Environment Fit and Public Service Motivation

By B. Steijn. 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Administration

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Activating the Forces of Public Service Motivation: Evidence from a Low‐Intensity Randomized Survey Experiment (2015, background): “PSM research fi nds that public employees exhibit higher PSM than private sector workers (Houston 2006; Lewis and Frank 2002; Pedersen 2013; Steijn 2008; Vandenabeele 2008).”
Work-Related Stressors and Health-Related Outcomes in Public Service (2015, background): “This general match between the public service environment and high PSM may be affected or moderated by person–organization fit and person–job fit (Steijn, 2008; Taylor, 2008), but the general match does suggest that public employees with higher PSM are more likely to experience autonomous…”
Government Employees’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Impacts of Public Service Motivation, Organizational Identification, and Subjective OCB Norms (2017, background): “Recent PSM studies have linked PSM with various attitudinal and behavioral variables such as organizational commitment (Crewson 1997; Leisink and Steijn 2009; Taylor 2007), job satisfaction (Steijn 2008; Taylor 2007), job performance (Bellé 2013; Leisink and Steijn 2009; Vandenabeele 2009), and job ”
Organizational Control Systems and Pay-for-Performance in the Public Service (2013, background): “This helps to observe candidates during a longer period and to meet the requirements of person-organization fit (Steijn, 2008; Taylor, 2008; Wright & Pandey, 2008, 2011).”
The mediating effect of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on self-reported performance: more robust evidence of the PSM—performance relationship (2009, background): “This claim has been supported by a number of empirical studies (Naff and Crum, 1999; Kim, 2005; Park and Rainey, 2007, 2008; Taylor, 2007, 2008; Bright, 2008; Steijn, 2008).”
Public Sector Employees: Risk Averse and Altruistic? (2012, background): “[36] Steijn, Bram (2008), Person-Environment Fit and Public Service Motivation, International Public Management Journal, 11(1): 13-27.”
Public service motivation and performance: The role of organizational identification (2018, background): “PSM has been linked to primarily positive outcomes, for example organizational commitment (Naff & Crum, 1999), organizational citizenship behaviours (Koumenta, 2015), and job satisfaction (Steijn, 2008).”
Does Public Service Motivation Always Lead to Organizational Commitment? Examining the Moderating Roles of Intrinsic Motivation and Ethical Leadership (2017, methodology): “…as perceived societal impact (i.e., the degree to which the job is perceived to provide opportunities to contribute to society; van Loon et al., 2016), a job’s perceived usefulness (Steijn, 2008), or a job’s service orientation (Christensen & Wright, 2011) could enhance or hamper the impact of PSM.”
Chapter 6 – The Personnel Economics of the Developing State (2017, result): “Similar results are found using government data from Switzerland (Ritz, 2009) and the Netherlands (Steijn, 2008).”
Public Service Motivation and Employment Sector: Attraction or Socialization? (2013, methodology): “Steijn (2008) and Taylor (2008) (among others) have shown that the positive association be- tween PSM and job satisfaction/intention to leave is partly or fully mediated by perceived personorganization fit.”
Understanding Public and Nonprofit Managers' Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory (2013, background): “Evidence also shows that they are more likely than their business sector peers to be driven by social service or public service (De Cooman, et al., 2011; Steijn, 2008), implying that they both exhibit strong service motivation.”
The Dimensions of Public Service Motivation and Sector Work Preferences (2012, background): “Their proposition reflects Schneider’s (1987) attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) theoretical framework (Steijn, 2008; Vandenabeele, 2008; Wright & Christensen, 2010), which holds that individuals are attracted to certain organizations that they deem to be a good fit with their personal values;…”
When Does Public Service Motivation Fuel the Job Satisfaction Fire? The Joint Moderation of Person–Organization Fit and Needs–Supplies Fit (2015, background): “2006), Italy (Cerase and Farinella 2009), Malta (Camilleri 2006), Netherland (Steijn 2008), South Korea (Kim 2009), Switzerland (Ritz 2009), and the United Kingdom (Coyle-Shapiro and Kessler 2003).”
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): “…on mediating and moderating factors frequently draw from job characteristics or person-environment fit theories to argue that PSM, as originally theorized, occurs over the course of one’s lifetime through various socialization processes (e.g. Perry 1997; Perry and Wise 1990; Steijn 2008).”