Does ownership matter for employee motivation when occupation is controlled for

Lotte Bøgh Andersen; Lene Holm Pedersen

doi:10.1080/01900692.2013.795162

Does ownership matter for employee motivation when occupation is controlled for

Abstract

The public service motivation literature argues that public employees are more motivated than private employees to deliver public service for the benefit of society. But the reason for this may be that the classical welfare services are predominant in the public sector. This article therefore investigates if ownership matters to employee motivation when occupation is controlled for. The findings show that the employees in both sectors have pro-social motivation, but that public sector employees are more motivated to work for the public interest, whereas private sector employees are more motivated to help individual users of services. The survey data are based on 3,304 Danish employees working in private as well as public organizations.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Public Administration
Volume	36
Issue number	12
Pages (from-to)	840-856
ISSN	0190-0692
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2013.795162
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Faculty of Social Sciences
public service motivation
private occupations

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