Bridging the Public Service Motivation and Calling Literatures

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Thompson, Jeffery A.; Christensen, Robert K.
• 署名单位: Brigham Young University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Seoul National University (SNU)
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12913
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 444-456
• 关键词: TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP; PRIVATE; work; job; employees; performance; GOVERNMENT; vocation; IMPACT; matter

摘要

Public administration research suggests there may be disparity in the extent to which public servants experience their work as a calling. The purpose of this article is to better illustrate and integrate calling research, which grows out of the positive organizational scholarship movement, into how we understand public service motives. The calling scholarship offers a productive way to view differences in public servants' orientations toward their work. Integrating calling into the public administration scholarship-particularly the public service motivation scholarship-provides insights to researchers and managers about how to help employees discover a deeper sense of meaningfulness in their work. In presenting the arguments and corresponding conceptual framework, the authors seek to supplement rather than replace the public service motivation construct. The authors articulate a research agenda that they believe will strengthen and enrich research on public servants' experience with their work.