Public service and motivation: Does mission matter?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wright, Bradley E.
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00696.x
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 54-64
• 关键词: goal-setting process; WORK MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH; performance; metaanalysis; antecedents; LEVEL; job; PARTICIPATION; CONSEQUENCES

摘要

This study advances our understanding of employee work motivation and performance in the public sector by reinterpreting the literature on public service motivation within the psychological framework of goal theory. An empirical test of this new framework suggests that goal theory provides a strong theoretical foundation for understanding the independent contributions of task, mission, and public service to employee work motivation and performance. The importance of an organization's mission increases employee work motivation in the public sector by making the job more important, even after controlling for the effect of performance-related extrinsic rewards.