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 …

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

Public sector recruitment is an urgent and prevailing challenge in both research and
practice. Public employer branding is an important subject in the theoretical debate, but the …

In recent years, public service motivation (PSM) research has grown substantially, but is still
largely limited to the field of public administration. To be able to export the theory and …

A commonly held assumption is that public service motivation (PSM) positively affects
individuals' attraction to government, but there are also private and nonprofit organizations …

We examine independent and joint influences of public service motivation (PSM), job
prosocial impact, and job reward equity on public employee engagement. Using panel data …

Almost three decades ago, James Perry created the first survey instrument to measure
public service motivation. Since then, social and behavioural scientists have intensively …

Job advertisements are a crucial first step in the recruitment process. Public sector
organizations overwhelmingly rely on passive recruitment tactics such as written notices …

The gender gap in the construction and engineering workforce persists, despite efforts to
close it over the past several decades. Increasing gender diversity is a critical strategy for …

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