Employees are essential for the effective delivery of public services. Interest in human
resource management (HRM) has increased, yet we still have much to learn about the …

The concept of public service motivation (PSM) dates back to 1982. Since then, many
definitions, measurement scales and implications have been proposed and discussed …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the special issue on
public service motivation (PSM) and human resource management (HRM). The authors …

Several studies over the past two decades have presented varying degrees of evidence that
an increased motive to serve the public good is prevalent in the public sector workforce. A …

The impact of organizational action on the enhancement and development of public service
motivation (PSM) was explored through interviews with mid-level managers at two federal …

Over the past decade, research on public service motivation (PSM) has made substantial
progress in terms of explaining the desired work outcomes of the concept such as individual …

Public administration is a hybrid field of study that has borrowed heavily from other
disciplines such as management, political science and economics. One mark of the field's …

Public service motivation research has proliferated in parallel with concerns about how to
improve the performance of public service personnel. However, scholarship does not always …

Although there has been considerable enthusiasm for public service motivation (PSM)
research in recent years, two of PSM's fundamental assumptions have been relatively …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to examine various antecedents to establish their
effect on public service motivation (PSM) and its four dimensions. Design/methodology …