The reorientation of public service motivation: through the lens of SDT
Public service motivation (PSM), or literally “the motivation to serve the public”, is a form of prosocial motivation. It was proposed back in 1990 as a major research theme in public administration within the scope of altruism. It refers to people’s commitment to the public interest, compassion,...
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| description | Public service motivation (PSM), or literally “the motivation to serve the public”, is a
form of prosocial motivation. It was proposed back in 1990 as a major research theme in public
administration within the scope of altruism. It refers to people’s commitment to the public
interest, compassion, and interest in policy making.However, this is misleading as prosocial
motivation is never purely altruistic in nature. For example, many high-rank public officials make
public policies simply due to media pressure or public scrutiny.Therefore, we use the
motivational typology in self-determination theory (SDT) to explore the egoistic side of PSM. Our
new SDT-based approach shows that there should not be a universal measurement tool for PSM.
Scholars need to first identify a given public service behavior, and then develop measures for
intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, introjected regulation, and external regulation for this
behavior. |
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| spelling | uum-203722016-12-18T08:14:12Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20372/ The reorientation of public service motivation: through the lens of SDT Xu, Chengwei Haque, Ariful Chen, Chung-An HD28 Management. Industrial Management Public service motivation (PSM), or literally “the motivation to serve the public”, is a form of prosocial motivation. It was proposed back in 1990 as a major research theme in public administration within the scope of altruism. It refers to people’s commitment to the public interest, compassion, and interest in policy making.However, this is misleading as prosocial motivation is never purely altruistic in nature. For example, many high-rank public officials make public policies simply due to media pressure or public scrutiny.Therefore, we use the motivational typology in self-determination theory (SDT) to explore the egoistic side of PSM. Our new SDT-based approach shows that there should not be a universal measurement tool for PSM. Scholars need to first identify a given public service behavior, and then develop measures for intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, introjected regulation, and external regulation for this behavior. 2016-10-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20372/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%2010.pdf Xu, Chengwei and Haque, Ariful and Chen, Chung-An (2016) The reorientation of public service motivation: through the lens of SDT. In: International Conference on Government & Public Affairs 2016 (ICOGPA2016), October 5th - 6th, 2016, School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia. http://icogpa2016.weebly.com/ |
| spellingShingle | HD28 Management. Industrial Management Xu, Chengwei Haque, Ariful Chen, Chung-An The reorientation of public service motivation: through the lens of SDT |
| title | The reorientation of public service motivation: through the lens of SDT |
| title_full | The reorientation of public service motivation: through the lens of SDT |
| title_fullStr | The reorientation of public service motivation: through the lens of SDT |
| title_full_unstemmed | The reorientation of public service motivation: through the lens of SDT |
| title_short | The reorientation of public service motivation: through the lens of SDT |
| title_sort | reorientation of public service motivation through the lens of sdt |
| topic | HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20372/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%2010.pdf |
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