Accountability and public service motivation in Korean government agencies

Sung Min Park and Min Young Kim

Public Money & Management, 2015, vol. 35, issue 5, 357-364

Abstract: This paper reports on a study in South Korea which looked at the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and goal orientation in that country's public sector. Goal clarity and goal congruence explained variations in accountability. Affective PSM was especially important. When individuals were exposed to unstable and ambiguous organizational environments, the relationship between PSM (especially affective and norm-based) and accountability was more pronounced. The theoretical and practical implications and limitations of this research are explained.

Date: 2015
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09540962.2015.1061178 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:35:y:2015:i:5:p:357-364

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/RPMM20

DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2015.1061178

Access Statistics for this article

Public Money & Management is currently edited by Michaela Lavender

More articles in Public Money & Management from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().