Can training enhance public employees’ public service motivation? A pretest–posttest design

• Main Authors: Chen, Chung-An, Hsieh, Chih-Wei, Chen, Don-Yun
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Public Service Training; Pretest–posttest Design
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/149992
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Recent evidence shows public service motivation (PSM) may be unrelated to one’s consideration of a public service career. In places where civil service examinations prevail, even adverse selection (selecting low-PSM individuals) can occur. This leaves public sector managers with tough questions: “Ca...