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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"public service motivation (PSM)"”.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …