POLICY ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE MOTIVATION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Anderfuhren-Biget, Simon; Varone, Frederic; Giauque, David
• 署名单位: University of Geneva; University of Lausanne
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12026
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 807-825
• 关键词: job-performance; employees; BEHAVIOR; sector; bases; work

摘要

This article analyzes whether and to what extent the policy environment of civil servants has an impact on their level of Public Service Motivation (PSM). It hypothesizes that public employees working in different policy domains and stages of the policy cycle are diversely motivated by four PSM orientations (Compassion, Commitment to the public interest, Self-sacrifice and Attraction to politics). The empirical results are based on a survey of 6885 Swiss civil servants. They show that those in charge of Welfare State policies are inclined to have higher levels of Compassion', whereas those performing core state functions report lower levels. Furthermore, employees whose main tasks are related to policy formulation display high levels of the Attraction to politics' dimension of PSM. This study questions the generalization of previous findings on PSM that are based on heterogeneous survey populations.