Public Service Motivation in Taiwan after "Stigma"

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
cheche duan ◽  
Hu Weizhe
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Average Level ◽  
The Public

<p>Public service motivation has recently become a significant research field of public administration and personnel management. However, the study on the relationship between public service motivation and job involvement is relatively rare. This paper will use the data from "Taiwan Civil Service Survey 2011" to study the interconnection between the public service motive and job involvement. The research will approach all civil servants in Taiwan through SEM analysis method. It is found that the value of PSM in Taiwan is lower than that of the different regions in the world (Europe, North America, South America and Asia), and even lower than the average level of regions from East Europe, which are far below the average level of Asian regions. The findings indicate that the public service motivation in Taiwan is not optimistic as a whole. It is related to fact that politics has intervened civil servant system. The PSM model of the civil servants in Taiwan are only in line with the three dimensions of Perry's four dimensions, the attraction to public policy and self-sacrifice have a significantly positive impact on job involvement, while the commitment to public interest and compassion have no effect on job involvement.</p>

Public Service Motivation in Taiwan after "Stigma"

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
cheche duan ◽  
Hu Weizhe
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Average Level ◽  
The Public

<p>Public service motivation has recently become a significant research field of public administration and personnel management. However, the study on the relationship between public service motivation and job involvement is relatively rare. This paper will use the data from "Taiwan Civil Service Survey 2011" to study the interconnection between the public service motive and job involvement. The research will approach all civil servants in Taiwan through SEM analysis method. It is found that the value of PSM in Taiwan is lower than that of the different regions in the world (Europe, North America, South America and Asia), and even lower than the average level of regions from East Europe, which are far below the average level of Asian regions. The findings indicate that the public service motivation in Taiwan is not optimistic as a whole. It is related to fact that politics has intervened civil servant system. The PSM model of the civil servants in Taiwan are only in line with the three dimensions of Perry's four dimensions, the attraction to public policy and self-sacrifice have a significantly positive impact on job involvement, while the commitment to public interest and compassion have no effect on job involvement.</p>

Public service motivation and organizational performance in Chinese provincial governments

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 770-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunkui Zhu ◽  
Chen Wu
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

Purpose This paper aims to examine different hypotheses concerning the effects of public service motivation (PSM) and other attitudinal or institutional dimensions on organizational performance (OP). Specifically, based on the experience of Chinese provincial governments, this study provides new evidence about how PSM may affect OP. Design/methodology/approach This study collected data from a survey of different provincial government departments in Sichuan Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province and Chongqing Municipality in 2011. Using data from 761 respondents, Pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to explore the relationships between related factors. Findings PSM, job satisfaction, affective commitment and job involvement have statistically significant effects on OP, and these results are consistent with the findings of previous researches that PSM positively affected OP at a significant level. The results suggest that, if civil servants have a strong PSM, the performance of their organizations will be high. Research limitations/implications Future research should look for additional factors that affect OP, comparing employees’ perceptions of an organization’s performance with objective data to determine whether, and to what degree, subjective measures of performance are valid measures of OP in the public sector. Practical implications In the process of improving government performance, it is significant to give attention to the government employees’ mentality. The government training and promotion system should encourage civil servants to care about the public interest. A more flattened organization should be considered as part of the next steps in government reform, and more opportunities should be provided to involve more government employees in policy making. Originality/value This study helps to clarify the effects of individual factors of PSM on OP in China in a tightly controlled bureaucratic environment, where related data are hardly accessible.

scholarly journals Public Service Motivation: A Rationalist Critique

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Bureaucratic Behavior

There has been a significant and growing interest, and growing empirical research, around Public Service Motivation (PSM) in recent years. There are few critiques of the construct, and none from a rationalist perspective. Given that the origins of PSM lie in attempts by public administration scholars to counter rationalist explanations of bureaucratic behavior, this lack of countercriticism is surprising. This article provides a rationalist critique of PSM. It argues that PSM is consistent with, and not an alternative to, rationalist understandings of what motivates individuals. It also argues that a significant gap in the PSM literature is around how civil servants and others make decisions; decisions about the public interest, and thus how and when to allocate public resources. It concludes that seeing PSM as consistent with rationality, and specifically as a form of expressive interests, answers many of the remaining questions about PSM and addresses the substantive gaps in the construct.

scholarly journals Public Service Motivation Measurement: A Test of Perry's Scale in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Hety Budiyanti ◽  
Shine Pintor siolemba Patiro ◽  
Akhmat Yamin
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
City Government ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Item Scale

This article proposes and tests a ‘shorter version of the instrument for public service motivation based on Perry’s (1996) exploratory 24-item scale for Indonesia civil servants in five big cities, inter alia, Jakarta, Surabaya, Semarang, Makassar, and Medan. Of 1200 respondents, 904 completed the questionnaire, and 800 questionnaires were determined to be feasible for further analysis. Thus, the response rate was 88.50% the results indicated support for the shortened scale of Perry’s original work on investigating the Public Service Motivation (PSM) of Indonesia civil servants in sample cities. The 10-item scale was based on four factors PSM, inter alia Attraction to Policy Making (APM), Commitment to the Public Interest (CPI), Compassion (COM), Self-Sacrifice (SS). Results also showed that, generally PSM for civil servant with basic positions in city government offices, in five cities tends to vary. The research results are expected to enhance our understanding about the importance of factors that influence the motivation of civil servants in providing public services to the general public. However, the limitation of the study lies in the small sample which is drawn from only five large cities in Indonesia.

scholarly journals The Public Servants’ Response When Facing Pandemic: The Role of Public Service Motivation, Accountability Pressure, and Emergency Response Capacity

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 529
Author(s):  
Yong Ye ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Xiaojun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Response Capacity ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
And Control

(1) Background: Public servants are regarded as guardians of the public interest, and their pandemic response played a vital role in controlling the spread of the epidemic. However, there is limited knowledge of the factors that influence public servants’ response (PSR) when facing pandemic prevention and control tasks. (2) Methods: Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), models were constructed and a regression method was employed with Chinese civil servant data to investigate how PSR is influenced by public service motivation (PSM), accountability pressure (AP), and emergency response capacity (ERC). (3) Results and discussion: PSM, AP, and ERC all have a positive effect on PSR, with AP having the greatest influence, followed by PSM and ERC. The effects of PSM, AP, and ERC on PSR have group heterogeneity, which had little effect on civil servants with very low levels of PSR and the greatest impact on civil servants with medium-level PSR. Job categories of civil servants also are a factor related to PSR; PSM and AP have the strongest effects on civil servants in professional technology, and ERC has the greatest influence on administrative law enforcement. Moreover, gender, administrative level, and leadership positions also have an impact on PSR. (4) Conclusions: Based on the factors of PSR, we found at least three important aspects that governments need to consider in encouraging PSR when facing a pandemic.

Public Service in "Greeneland"

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Louis C Gawthrop
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organizational Environments

The essay examines four of Graham Greene's "administrative" novels.The focus of the article is on three basic perspectives that characterizeGreene's treatment of bureaucratic systems, in general, andpublic sector careerists, in particular. The central theme that Greeneseems to pursue in all of his novels-the persistent human struggle inthe attempt to attain a sense of authentic being-is developed withparticular effectiveness when he focuses on career civil servants andtheir organizational environments. His treatment of the public sectorserves to inform us of the ever-present danger of pursuing aninauthentic career in the service of democracy.

Public Service Motivation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Mastracci
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

In this paper, the author examines public service as depicted in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS). First, she shows how slaying meets the economist’s definition of a public good, using the BtVS episode “Flooded” (6.04). Second, she discusses public service motivation (PSM) to determine whether or not Buffy, a public servant, operates from a public service ethic. Relying on established measures and evidence from shooting scripts and episode transcripts, the author concludes Buffy is a public servant motivated by a public service ethic. In this way, BtVS informs scholarship on public service by broadening the concept of PSM beyond the public sector; prompting one to wonder whether it is located in a sector, an occupation, or in the individual. These conclusions allow the author to situate Buffy alongside other idealized public servants in American popular culture.

Anniversary of the first national standards for geodetic instruments

2019 ◽  
Vol 946 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
O. K. Golubkova ◽  
A.I. Spiridonov
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
State Standards ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Technical Level ◽  
Instrument Making ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Basic Parameters ◽  
Technical Specifications

State standards on the types, basic parameters of levels and theodolites as well as technical requirements were developed in CNIIGAiK in 1962–1963. The authors indicate the experience of developing the first State standards for geodetic instrument making, the difficulties encountered in developers. In this article the main stages of preparation of State standards, including action algorithm from technical specifications to submissions for the approval of the public service are marked step-by-step. The types of levels and theodolites, and the basic technical characteristics for each type are described. During 55 years the positive impact in the areas of production and application of standardized levels and theodolites, inter alia, streamlining the issuance of standard sizes of devices, increased production and improved their quality and technical level was revealed.

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