Do High Public Service Motivation and High Salaries Go Hand-in-Hand? Exploring the Motivational Pattern and Remuneration of Swiss Local Government Officials
The concept of public service motivation has been validated in numerous studies internationally, including in the Peoples Republic of China (Liu et al. 2008). It is of great interest to public administration scholars due to its ability to predict the attitudes and behavior of public officials such as their organizational commitment and work engagement, which themselves are of interest to civil service reformers. Little is known, however, about whether the strength of an officials public service motivation is reflected in his or her remuneration. Does high public service motivation pay off financially? As a first stab at investigating this question, in this paper we examine whether public service motivation and remuneration are associated among Swiss local government employees. We begin by reviewing the concept of public service motivation and its correlates, followed by an overview of the determinants of the remuneration of public officials. We then test whether public service motivation predicts remuneration using survey data on 3,024 Swiss local government employees. Considering three dimensions of public service motivation, we find that the dimensions of Attraction to Policy-Making and Commitment to the Public Interest predict a higher salary interval and Compassion a lower salary interval, controlling for standard determinants of remuneration.
RITZ, Adrian PETROVSKY, Nicolai
Center of Competence for Public Management, University of Bern, 3005 Bern, Switzerland Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky,Lexington KY 40506, USA
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Public Administration(2011公共管理国际会议)
成都
英文
350-361
2011-10-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）