Is Public Service Motivation a Better Explanation of Nonprofit Career Preferences Than Government Career Preferences?

Bright, Leonard

doi:10.1177/0091026016676093

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“…Importantly, the effects documented here observe a measure of intrinsic values prior to entering the workforce, controlling for bias introduced by workforce environment on measures of worker values and providing evidence of the direction of the relationship between PSM‐related values and sector selection. The positive relationship between PSM‐related values and selection into both public and nonprofit occupations is consistent with other recent evidence examining nonprofit workers (Bright ). The relationship between values and job choice seems related to educational attainment only to the extent that sorting occurs into majors within colleges before the labor market.…”

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“…As Bright () notes, some high‐PSM workers with government experience report being less likely to seek a return to government careers after leaving. In conjunction with Bright's findings, the results presented here underscore that public and nonprofit management practices should consider the distinct motivation public sector workers carry with them into the workforce to avoid losing promising employees.…”

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For Those Who Care: The Effect of Public Service Motivation on Sector Selection

Holt

2018

Public Administration Review

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Public service motivation (PSM) theory suggests that the alignment of values may explain sorting into public service work. Evidence suggests that people with high PSM cluster in government and nonprofit organizations. However, reliance on cross‐sectional data leaves open the question of whether observed patterns are the result of public and nonprofit organizations attracting and selecting high‐PSM people or cultivating PSM through socialization within the sector. Using longitudinal data, this article analyzes the relationship between motivational bases, such as PSM, and sorting into the public, for‐profit, and nonprofit sectors. The results indicate that PSM‐related values, measured before labor market entry, predict the sector a person will select for employment. Moreover, the effect on sector selection does not operate through some commonly cited alternative predictor of sector employment, such as college completion. Rather, PSM predicts sorting into college majors in a manner consistent with sector sorting in the labor market.

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For Those Who Care: The Effect of Public Service Motivation on Sector Selection

Holt

2018

Public Administration Review

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“…Previous studies in the US (Clerkin and Coggburn 2012;Rose 2012;Bright 2016) indicate that PSM is a better predictor of nonprofit career preferences. This study, in a European context, has found that student interest in the nonprofit sector is enhanced by self-sacrifice and compassion but reduced by commitment to public values.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Rose () found that young students were more likely to view the nonprofit sector rather than government as the place to work if they wanted to serve other people and society. Bright () also found that PSM is a significantly better predictor of nonprofit career preferences.…”

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Public or nonprofit? Career preferences and dimensions of public service motivation

Ballart

Rico

2018

Public Administration

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While the foundational claim that PSM attracts individuals to the public sector is well established in the research literature, much uncertainty still exists about its influence on the choice between the public versus the nonprofit sector, which also frequently exhibits a strong public service mission. Little is known also about how discrete dimensions of PSM differ in their effects on such job preferences. This article addresses these shortcomings by drawing on a study that combines the measurement of separate dimensions of PSM with a policy‐capturing design that allows disentangling the effects of sector from those of other job attributes that usually correlate with it: the service orientation of the job and job security. Results show that dimensions of PSM display relevant differences in their effects on preferences across job attributes. These findings have important implications for the choice of PSM measurements in scholarly research and job selection.

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“…Cognitively, the information obtained will definitely influence students' sell efficacy in making career decisions [17]. The results of the study indicate that there is a tendency for someone to use social media services to choose careers that is prone to be unattached to strict rules such as working for the government [18].…”

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Social Media as a Student Career Selection Preference

Zamroni¹,

Mahardika²,

Rahardjo³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technology and Educational Science

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The lives of the majority of students are currently absorbed by activities in social media such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, and the others that allow a wide variety of both positive and negative information for the development in life and career selection activities. The purpose of this study is to find out how much the preference or tendency for students to use social media as a media literacy in career selection is. This article will reveal important data on the role of social media in influencing a student's career decision making. The research method used was a multistage random sampling technique involving 250 students from vocational high schools in Kudus Regency. The results of this study indicate that 61% of students use social media to find information that is used to consider advanced career selection. Meanwhile, the rest 12% chose a career based on their understanding of talent, 14% chose a career because of the opinions from parents or siblings, and 13% followed their friends and closest friends. This shows that social media have a significant role in helping students determine the future of their careers.

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Is Public Service Motivation a Better Explanation of Nonprofit Career Preferences Than Government Career Preferences?

Cited by 35 publications

References 84 publications

For Those Who Care: The Effect of Public Service Motivation on Sector Selection

For Those Who Care: The Effect of Public Service Motivation on Sector Selection

Public or nonprofit? Career preferences and dimensions of public service motivation

Social Media as a Student Career Selection Preference

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