Unanswered Questions about Public Service Motivation: Designing Research to Address Key Issues of Emergence and Effects

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wright, Bradley E.; Grant, Adam M.
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of Pennsylvania
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02197.x
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 691-700
• 关键词: job-performance; WORK MOTIVATION; self-efficacy; personality; VALUES; sector; ORGANIZATIONS; socialization; COMMITMENT; employees

摘要

As public service motivation research gains momentum, important questions emerge regarding its origins and consequences that are not addressed by existing research. The authors identify some fundamental public service motivation assumptions, including critical gaps in our current understanding of its basic tenets. The authors then discuss specific research studies that, by virtue of their findings and designs, may fill in and inform such apparent gaps. Their aim is to chart new concrete directions for scholarship that complements and advances existing public service motivation research.