. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission …-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task motivation, mission motivation has no additional effect on effort. The … three tasks, from boring to interesting. In addition, for half of the students, mission motivation is present: their effort …

The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient … implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate … second mechanism through which non-programmatic parties undermine public sector reform: clientelistic politicians have weaker …

executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory … to explain when executives forsake patronage for merit. The theory exploits exogenous variation in the institutional … comparison of reforms in Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and the United States validates the theory. How patronage states are …

Theory suggests that employee trust is key to productivity in organizations, but empirical evidence documenting links …. Third, trust in coworkers is associated with stronger mission motivation. Instrumental variable strategies based on the … preferences for social distancing policies provides further evidence that trust enhances mission motivation: employee policy …