TY - JOUR
T1 - Public Service Motivation in a Work Group
T2 - Role of Ethical Climate and Servant Leadership
AU - Shim, Dong Chul
AU - Park, Hyun Hee
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/ or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2016S1A3A2924956).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - The current study attempts to examine Perry’s assertion that the public service motivation (PSM) of government employees may be influenced by the logic of appropriateness. Based on a survey of 596 Korean local government employees in 110 work groups, this study investigated the associations between ethical climate, servant leadership, and PSM. Multilevel structural equation models (SEM) were employed. At the individual level, ethical climate (i.e., efficiency, rule/law, independence) was significantly associated with PSM. However, at the work group level, ethical climate did not demonstrate a significant association with PSM. In addition, this study found that servant leadership is effective in helping government employees develop PSM at both the individual and work group levels.
AB - The current study attempts to examine Perry’s assertion that the public service motivation (PSM) of government employees may be influenced by the logic of appropriateness. Based on a survey of 596 Korean local government employees in 110 work groups, this study investigated the associations between ethical climate, servant leadership, and PSM. Multilevel structural equation models (SEM) were employed. At the individual level, ethical climate (i.e., efficiency, rule/law, independence) was significantly associated with PSM. However, at the work group level, ethical climate did not demonstrate a significant association with PSM. In addition, this study found that servant leadership is effective in helping government employees develop PSM at both the individual and work group levels.
KW - ethical climate
KW - motivation theory
KW - organizational behavior
KW - public service motivation
KW - servant leadership
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058957040&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0091026018806013
DO - 10.1177/0091026018806013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058957040
SN - 0091-0260
VL - 48
SP - 203
EP - 225
JO - Public Personnel Management
JF - Public Personnel Management
IS - 2
ER -