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Disentangling the role of contract types and sector disparities for public service motivation
Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015
specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public … sector impact PSM. We also investigate how prospects of employment relations (fixed-term versus permanent contracts …), temporal differences (part-time versus full-time employment), and actual jobs (core versus subsidiary jobs) moderate PSM in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346559
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Job satisfaction and public service motivation
Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014
Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239262
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Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation
Kaiser, Lutz - 2014
Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058732
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Nudging the nudger : a field experiment on the effect of performance feedback to service agents on increasing organ donor registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413486
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Are workers motivated by the greater good? : workers care about employers' social causes, but the public sector does not attract particularly motivated employees
Tonin, Mirco - 2015
intrinsic motivation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430531
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Love the job... or the patient? : task vs. mission-based motivations in health care
Banuri, Sheheryar; Keefer, Philip; De Walque, Damien - 2018
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959280
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Nudging the Nudger : A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435109
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Intrinsic motivations of public sector employees : evidence for Germany
Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2013
theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752996
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Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from a Government Agency
Burgess, Simon M. - 2012
This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103041
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010
service motivation. We find that, if demand for public sector output is not too high, the equilibrium return to managerial … service motivation ; managerial ability ; self-selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940496