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POLICY ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE MOTIVATION

Simon Anderfuhren-Biget · Frédéric Varone · David Giauque

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This article analyzes whether and to what extent the policy environment of civil servants has an impact on their level of Public Service Motivation (PSM). It hypothesizes that public employees working in different policy domains and stages of the policy cycle are diversely motivated by fourPSMorientations (Compassion, Commitment to the public interest, Self‐sacrifice and Attraction to politics). The empirical results are based on a survey of 6885 Swiss civil servants. They show that those in charge of Welfare State policies are inclined to have higher levels of ‘Compassion’, whereas those performing core state functions report lower levels. Furthermore, employees whose main tasks are related to policy formulation display high levels of the ‘Attraction to politics’ dimension ofPSM. This study questions the generalization of previous findings onPSMthat are based on heterogeneous survey populations.

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