Motivation for public service : perspective of self-determination theory (SDT)

• Main Author: Xu, Chengwei
• Other Authors: Chen Chung-An
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Public administration
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72757
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis consists of three self-contained essays on motivational studies. In the first essay, I review and reflect on the existing literature that addresses the motivation for public service, and then debate the definitions of public service motivation (PSM) with relative concepts such as prosoci...