Public service motivation and public sector employment preference: Comparing Italian and British students

Alessandro Hinna · Fabian Homberg · Danila Scarozza · Valentina Verdini

23 citations0/0 files storedPublic Money & Management

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Public Policy and Administration Research Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Employer Branding and e-HRM

Abstract

Previous research has suggested that an individual’s public service motivation (PSM) is positively linked to a preference for public sector employment. The authors explore this link using a sample of British and Italian undergraduate students. They found a positive relationship between PSM and public sector job preferences among Italian students but not with the British students. The UK has implemented more NPM-style reforms than Italy and this could be impacting on public sector recruitment. Implications for recruitment and retention the public sector are discussed.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 23 citations exist upstream.

References

1991A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS?1992The new institutionalism in organizational analysis 1987THE PEOPLE MAKE THE PLACE 1990The Motivational Bases of Public Service 2005Rhetorical Strategies of Legitimacy 1996Measuring Public Service Motivation: An Assessment of Construct Reliability and Validity 2011Public management reform : a comparative analysis - new public management, governance, and the Neo-Weberian State 2008Microfoundations of Institutional Theory

Cited by

2021Motivational Differences? Comparing Private, Public and Hybrid Organizations 2021Profiling Public Sector Choice: Perceptions and Motivational Determinants at the Pre-Entry Level 2024Public service motivation and public sector employment in Korea 2019Public service motivation in the Chinese public and private sectors 2025Public service motivation and career choice intentions of social work students: the roles of altruistic motivation and professional values 2022

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.