The Promotion of Public Service Motivation In the light of Organizational Factors

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Public Managemebt, Management & Accounting Faculty, Allame Tabatabaei University

2 Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

3 Public Management, management & accounting Faculty, Allame Tabatabaei University.

Abstract

In order to recognize the antecedents of public service motivation (PSM), many studies focus on the Sociohistorical context. This study is seeking to examine the role that organizational factors play in shaping and fostering Public Service Motivation. Thus the purpose of this research is to evaluate the organizational factors’ impact on Public Service Motivation component. So in a Descriptive and Survey research a number of hundred and fifty-nine employees of Tehran 22 area municipality were studied. Descriptive - Inferential Statistics (Multiple Regression Method) were used for analyzing the research’s data. The results indicate that by controlling the effect of all components, the impact of four variables including Work Autonomy and Task Identity as Task Characteristics as well as Job Complexity and Specialization as Knowledge Characteristics on Public Service Motivation’s level is statistically meaningful, but the impact of two variables including Task Significance and Task Variety as Task Characteristics is not significant.

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Journal of Sustainable Human Resource Management
Volume 2, Issue 2
June 2020
Pages 7-28

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