Public Service Motivation and Employment Sector: Attraction or Socialization?

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Leadership and public service motivation: a systematic synthesis (2021, background): “For instance, Kjeldsen and Jacobsen (2013) examined whether the pre-entry public service motivation of Danish physiotherapy students influenced their choice of employing sector (attraction-selection hypothesis), and whether being employed changed public service motivation.”
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): “It may be that P-O fit is less important because public service motivated employees care about the tasks they are doing more than the organization for which they do it (Kjeldsen & Jacobsen, 2012).”
Red Tape, Resigned Satisfaction, Public Service Motivation, and Negative Employee Attitudes and Behaviors (2015, background): “Existing studies demonstrate positive linkage between PSM and work-relevant outcomes such as job choice decisions (Christensen & Wright, 2011; Kjeldsen & Jacobsen, 2012), work satisfaction (Anderfuhren-Biget, Varone, Giauque, & Ritz, 2010), organizational commitment (Camilleri, 2006; Castaing,…”