As a human capital crisis poses urgent challenges across multiple countries, public
administration scholars and practitioners are concerned with recruitment and selection …

In the third edition of his award-winning book, Hal G. Rainey provides a comprehensive, up-
to-date analysis of research on public organizations and management. Drawing on a review …

The concept of public service motivation has drawn considerable research and practitioner
interest as a useful behavioral construct that public sector leaders can use to motivate …

Given the rhetoric that human resource management (HRM) models adopted by public and
private organisations are becoming more similar, this study questions whether the traditional …

Sector preferences in job choice have rarely been tested empirically across different
administrative systems. We address this gap and apply a between-subject experimental …

Public employers struggle with recruiting talents and labor market competition. Research on
the understudied topic of employer branding can help address this challenge. This study …

Drawing on the socialization aspect of public service motivation (PSM) and the
internalization process of organizational values, this study empirically tests the argument …

This article assesses how changing paradigms of public administration have been reflected
in public sector human resources management over time. It finds that large-scale reform …

When Lois Wise and I first wrote about public service motivation (Perry & Wise, 1990), public
administration, at least in the US, was in transition. The late 1970s brought the first major …

Practitioners, policymakers, and scholars across fields and disciplines seek to understand
factors that shape public opinion and public service values, especially in today's polarized …