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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Public Service Motivation"”.
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Public service motivation and volunteering.
… of understanding the relationship between public service motivation and volunteering. Set in the backdrop of increased corporate and public sector social responsibility, I first examine the theoretical rationale behind public service motivation (PSM). I address the debate of how it affects …
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The Impact of Public Service Motivation on Reentry Managers' Decision-making Practices
… exploratory study is to examine the effects of public service motivation (PSM) in predicting decision-making of criminal justice personnel (reentry managers) in the management of former prisoners. The overarching research question seeks to answer if, and in what way, PSM score influences reentry …
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A Comparative Study of Public Service Motivation Among Organizational Units in a Public University
… of decreased utilitarian and extrinsic rewards, public higher education organizations are challenged to identify low-cost yet satisfying ways to motivate their employees. Previous researchers suggested that the motivation of public employees is a significant aspect of job satisfaction and job …
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The Motivation of Voluntary Sector Employees: A Study of the Relevance of Public Service Motivation
This thesis uses Public Service Motivation (PSM) as a mechanism to explore the values and motivations of voluntary sector employees. It does so in the context of increased outsourcing of public service delivery to the voluntary sector and questions regarding the existence of distinctive motivations …
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Investigating the relationships between work-life balance, Public Service Motivation, and Job Satisfaction in the context of the public sector in Indonesia.
… the relationships between work-life balance, public service motivation and job satisfaction and the mediating role of public service motivation. This study approached the work-life balance concept from work-life enhancement, conflict, role quality and work-life typology. The purpose of this …
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Re-Defining Public Service In An Era of Networked Governance: An Examination of the Influence of Public Service Motivation On Contractors In Homeland Security
<p>Over the last several decades, the notion of public service motivation (PSM) has been established through a wealth of scholarly work as a key commonality amongst those who choose to serve the public sector, with a broad consensus that public servants have a special calling (Boyne 2002; Houston …
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Der Einfluss der leistungsorientierten Bezahlung auf die Public Service Motivation und die intrinsische Motivation von Beschäftigten im öffentlichen Sektor : ein empirischer Test der Motivation Crowding Theory am Beispiel der Kreisverwaltung Potsdam-Mittelmark
… festgeschriebenen Leistungsentgelt soll u.a. die Motivation der Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter im öffentlichen Dienst gesteigert werden. Eine motivationssteigernde Wirkung wird jedoch von Seiten der Motivationsforschung bestritten. Sie geht im Gegenteil davon aus, dass eine leistungsorientierte …
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Motivationale Einflussfaktoren auf die Verbeamtungspräferenzen von Lehramtsstudierenden und jungen Lehrkräften
… untersucht in diesem Kontext, welche motivationalen Einflussfaktoren die Verbeamtungspräferenzen von Lehramtsstudierenden und jungen Lehrkräften in Berlin beeinflussen. Zudem wird analysiert, wie sich die Public Service Motivation, der Arbeitskontext und sozialhistorische Faktoren auf …
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Dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet? - Was motiviert die Beschäftigten des öffentlichen Dienstes?
… theoretisch und empirisch mit der so genannten Public Service Motivation (PSM) und ihrem Zusammenhang zu anderen psychologischen Motivationstheorien. Die Public Service Motivation geht davon aus, dass öffentlich Beschäftigte unter anderem dadurch motiviert sind, dass sie in ihrer Arbeit einen …
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Illuminating Identities and Motivations in Public Participation: Public Administrators' Perspectives about Public Participation in Local Government
… projects. The CDBG program emphasizes that public hearings are a requirement to obtain federal funding at the state and local levels. Also, HUD lists several other public participation methods that can be used in addition to public hearings. Further, the extant literature on public …
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The Impact of Community Service on Public Sector Leadership
… understand the relationship between community service and public service leadership. The aim of the study was to contribute to the current body of work by focusing on public sector employees and exploring how community service impacted their leadership skills and development. To achieve this, …
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Exploring the relationship between HPW practices of acute ward staff in NHSL on employee experience
… by looking at the relationship between public service motivations (PSM). In doing, this study attempted to contribute field of literature in HPWS, PSM and P-O fit. Also study has contributed to existing research by exploring the relationship between high performance work practices on …
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The distinct impacts of trustworthiness traits, trust, and distrust on public service coproduction: empirical evidence from citizen perspective in urban China
… to enhance the quality and efficiency of public services. Trust is routinely treated as a pivotal precondition for coproduction with citizens who trust the government being more willing to collaborate and to bear costs associated with participation. However, empirical evidence remains …
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Improving the Retention of United States (U.S.) Government Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Employees
… to retain these highly demanded workers in the public sector.</p> <p>Decades of psychological research across many industries has investigated what motivates workers and how best to incentivize them to increase productivity. Maslow and Herzberg, among others, theorized that adult workers have …
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Performance-Based Pay: Perceptions of Elementary Teachers of the Pandora School District
… incorporates issues unique to teachers and other public servants and is defined using Public Service Motivation Theory.
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The implementation of the compulsory induction programme on the socialisation of public servants
Empirical evidence suggests that public service induction training is a significant precondition for public servants to understand their role as enablers of effective and efficient service delivery. Despite governments’ efforts to professionalise the public service through training and development, …
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Tending the Fire of Service: An Empirical Study of Strategies for Integrating Volunteer and Career Firefighters
… that legacy organizational design and individual motivations are important influences on these integrating strategies. Most interestingly, it finds that the founding debate between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists still has influence on these managing strategies. Local managers are able to …
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The Effects of Knowledge Sharing on Program Performance: Influences on CPS Program Performance
As current social problems grow more complex, public organizations have to deal with more complicated problems and values than in the past. Public organizations arguably need more knowledge to effectively address such complex problems. However, there is little study of the relationship between …
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Transitioning to a Greener Fleet: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Vehicle Fleet Program at the Texas General Land Office in Austin, Texas
This study will accomplish three things. First, the study will provide a detailed discussion on cost-benefit analysis and how this type of analysis is used in the decision making process. Second, the study will provide background information on hybrid vehicles and alternative fuels their effect on …