What Drives Morally Committed Citizens? A Study of the Antecedents of Public Service Motivation

Perry, James L.; Brudney, Jeffrey L.; Coursey, David; Littlepage, Laura

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.00881.x

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“…In recent years, using the scale and dimensions of Perry's PSM (1996), many researchers have tested the antecedent and effect factors of PSM (Perry, 1997(Perry, , 2000Choi, 2004;Camilleri, 2006;Castaing, 2006;Camilleri, 2007;Moynihan and Pandey, 2007;Perry et al, 2008;Christensen and Wright, 2011;Vandenabeele, 2011;Kachornkittiya et al, 2012). From the test results, some studies claimed that PSM was viable for any condition and environment (Crewson, 1995;Vandenabeele et al, 2004;Bertelli, 2006;Leisink and Steijn, 2009;Vandenabeele, et al, 2010).…”

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Public Service Motivation Differences BetweenPermanent and Contract Employees in the Local Government

Yudiatmaja

2017

MIMBAR, Jurnal Sosial dan Pembangunan

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Abstract. This article examines the difference of public service motivation (PSM) at street-level bureaucracy in Indonesia. Focus of this study is to review the difference of public service motivation between permanent and contract employees in sub-districts of Tanjungpinang, Kepulauan Riau. The dimensions and indicators of Perry's (1996) measurement of PSM are used to analyze that difference. Independent sample t-test has employed to 129 government employees and 74 non-government employees in Tanjungpinang. Unlike those in developed countries which showed that PSM of its civil services is higher than PSM of contract employees, the findings of this research prove there are no differences between PSM of permanent and contract employees in Indonesia. It rejects the conclusion of foreign scholars suggesting the PSM construct was viable for international environment.

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Public Service Motivation Differences BetweenPermanent and Contract Employees in the Local Government

Yudiatmaja

2017

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“…For people who do ordinary amounts of volunteering and charitable giving, religion is just one motivation among others, but for highly prosocial people, religion seems to be very important. Perry et al (2008) and Colby and Damon (1992) came to similar conclusions, but they used selective samples of highly prosocial people only. This study replicates their findings in a nationally representative random sample that includes less prosocial respondents as a comparison group.…”

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“…Two studies of highly prosocial "moral exemplars" (Colby and Damon 1992;Perry et al 2008) found that the majority cited religion or spirituality as a reason for helping others. Furthermore, these exemplars did not compartmentalize their lives into religion, personal life, and helping work, but considered their spiritual or religious beliefs, helping behaviors, and personal identity to be "highly integrated" into a single whole (Perry et al 2008: 452).…”

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The Link Between Religion and Helping Others: The Role of Values, Ideas, and Language

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2011

Sociology of Religion

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This study used life narrative interview data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study to examine how religious values, ideas, and language motivate prosocial behaviors. Open coding of 88 in-depth interviews revealed six themes: defining morality in religious terms, considering religion an important aspect of one's identity, feeling that one's life involves carrying out God's mission, making an increased commitment to religion over time, drawing an explicit connection between religion and helping others, and, for Christian respondents, finding inspiration for helping in Jesus's teaching, example, and sacrifice. Using ratings from independent coders, statistically significant relationships were found between most of the themes and prosocial behaviors, particularly for respondents who engaged in multiple helping behaviors. In addition to documenting the relationship between religious ideas and values and helping behaviors, the study demonstrates how language mediates the relationship between the social and personal aspects of religion.Key words: beliefs; civil society/public sphere; nonprofit sector; qualitative methods; values; prosocial behavior.The importance of helping others is a common theme in many religious traditions, and many scientific studies have found a link between religiosity and helping. However, the exact nature of this link is disputed. Sociologists who study this issue tend to explain the connection between religion and helping by reference to the social networks that come with religious participation ( -Glen 1991;Omoto et al. 2000). Most psychological studies of the relationship between subjective religiosity and helping use quantitative measures of subjective religiosity, and most find only moderate correlations between religiosity and helping (Saroglou 2006). This paper focuses on subjective religiosity, and argues that religious values, ideas, and language are not merely psychological phenomena but are also social facts. People learn religious ideas and values from others, and internalize them into their own sense of identity. They draw upon these ideas to engage in social behaviors, and use language to construct accounts that explain why they help others, and what helping others means to them. Taking ideas and language seriously allows for a broader and more accurate understanding of the connection between religion and helping, and allows researchers to connect the internal world of the mind with the external world of social discourse. GoldbergThis paper analyzes data from 88 in-depth life narrative interviews undertaken as part of the 1995 Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study. The first phase of this research project used open coding to identify six themes in how respondents talked about religion. These themes were defining morality in religious terms, considering religion an important aspect of one's identity, feeling that one's life involves carrying out God's mission, making an increased commitment to religion through the adult life course, drawing an explicit connecti...

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“…Johns and Saks [26] discuss that during recessions, a typical scenario is that employees have to stay in an organization they hate, which is related to low affective and high continuance commitment. Job security is an especially important antecedent of continuance commitment for employees in the public sector [39,42]. Continuance commitment is also often associated with antecedents like investments and alternatives.…”

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The Influence of Leader-Member Communication on Organizational Commitment in a Central European Hospital

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What Drives Morally Committed Citizens? A Study of the Antecedents of Public Service Motivation

Cited by 262 publications

References 39 publications

Public Service Motivation Differences BetweenPermanent and Contract Employees in the Local Government

Public Service Motivation Differences BetweenPermanent and Contract Employees in the Local Government

The Link Between Religion and Helping Others: The Role of Values, Ideas, and Language

The Influence of Leader-Member Communication on Organizational Commitment in a Central European Hospital

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