Does pursuing external incentives compromise public service motivation? Comparing the effects of job security and high pay

• Main Authors: Chen, Chung-An, Hsieh, Chih-Wei
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104315; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20149
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The pursuit of both job security and high pay as main reasons for job selection, according to self-determination theory (SDT), implies that people are controlled by external conditions (i.e. external regulation) and thus unlikely to be driven by altruistic values. Conceptually, however, pursui...