Public Service Motivation and Professionalism

Lotte Bøgh Andersen; Lene Holm Pedersen

doi:10.1080/01900692.2011.635278

Public Service Motivation and Professionalism

Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Lene Holm Pedersen

Department of Political Science

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Abstract

Public service motivation (PSM) literature has traditionally conceptionalized professionalism as identification with professional associations. In contrast, this article discusses professionalism as an occupational variable and claims that professionalism relates differently to the different PSM dimensions and user orientation. Using two different measures of professionalism, the article analyses 845 Danish employees and shows that professionalism is negatively related to compassion and user orientation, but positively related to attraction to policy-making. Commitment to the public interest and professionalism are not related. Thus, professionalism relates to PSM in more complex ways than earlier supposed, pointing towards an institutional approach to professionalism and PSM.

Original language	Danish
Journal	International Journal of Public Administration
Volume	35
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	46-57
Number of pages	12
ISSN	0190-0692
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2011.635278
Publication status	Published - Jan 2012

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