Understanding Public and Nonprofit Managers' Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory

• Main Authors: Chen, Chung-An, Bozeman, Barry
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: amotivation; Public-nonprofit comparison; self-determination theory; self-determination index; intrinsic motivation; extrinsic motivation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80553; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40578
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Contemporary public and nonprofit management research has disproportionally emphasized the importance of intrinsic motivation (especially service motivation) but has given comparatively little attention to non-intrinsic motivation. According to self-determination theory (SDT), non-intrinsic motivati...