Validating the Construct of Public Service Motivation in For-profit Organizations: A preliminary study

Bangcheng Liu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Lanying Du and Qi Hu

Public Management Review, 2015, vol. 17, issue 2, 262-287

Abstract: Delineating the theoretical link between individuals' discretion and motivations in the private sector and their public service behaviours in Chinese society, this study explored public service motivation (PSM) in for-profit organizations. A survey of 348 employees from three engineering consulting organizations in China validated the construct of PSM in for-profit organizations. Besides the positive correlation between conscientiousness and PSM, the current study demonstrated that a positive correlation exists between PSM and community citizenship behaviour (CCB) with love of money (LOM) as a marginal moderator: the positive relationship between PSM and CCB is marginally stronger when LOM is higher, vice versa.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2013.798023

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