ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation.
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- The Public Service Motivation's Impact on Turnover Intention in Korean Public Organizations: Do Perceived Organizational Politics Matter?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- How Organisational and Socio-Cultural Contexts Shape Healthcare Workers' Intrinsic, Prosocial, and Public Service Motivation in Africa: A Scoping Review.International journal of health policy and management · 2025Article
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- Organizational Error Tolerance and Change-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment and Moderating Role of Public Service Motivation.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Public Service Motivation and Determining Factors to Attract and Retain Health Professionals in the Public Sector: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Occupational Difficulties of Disaster-Affected Local Government Employees in the Long-Term Recovery Phase after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Modeling Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The influence of occupational values on college students' willingness to apply for civil servants: The mediating role of political efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Morality constructs the relationship between the self and others, providing a sense of appropriateness that facilitates and coordinates social behaviors. We start from Moral Foundation Theory (MFT), and argue that multiple moral domains can shape the meaning of public service and engender Public Service Motivation (PSM). From the lens of cognitive science, we develop a causal map for PSM by understanding the social cognition process underlying PSM, focusing on five innate moralities as the potential antecedents of PSM: Care, Fairness, Authority, Loyalty, and Sanctity. Extending moral domains beyond compassion and justice can provide a disaggregated view of PSM, which may help to identify institutional and cultural variation in the meaning of PSM. We discuss the theoretical implications of synthesizing MFT and PSM literatures, and provide directions for future research that could improve our understanding of PSM.
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