The Public Service Motivation: Lessons from the Literature

Francesca Amendola ()
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Francesca Amendola: CELPE - Centre of Labour Economics and Economic Policy, University of Salerno - Italy, Postal: via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 - Fisciano (SA), ITALY

No 158, CELPE Discussion Papers from CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy

Abstract: Public Service Motivation (PSM) has been defined as a “general altruistic motivation to serve the interests of a community of people, a state, a nation or humankind” (Rainey & Steinbauer, 1999). Public Service Motivation research began in the 1990s mainly within the field of public administration, but, in the last two decades, it became much more multidisciplinary and its trajectory increased. Even if there are several literature reviews about theconstruct, is still missing a cataloguing that takes into account some specific factors, such as the location of the studies and the type of samples used. Therefore, the objective of this work is to reorganize the literatureusing three criteria: 1) the relation ofPSM with other variables, 2) the type of sample used by the scholars; 3) the geographical location of the studies. Those three criteria are going to be partially "crossed" in order to individuate some best practices in the PSM research. Finally,further lines of research are shown.

Keywords: Public Service Motivation; Organizational Behaviour; Motivation; Public Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H19 H83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2019-12-13
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