Research Handbook on Motivation in Public Administration

Edited by Edmund C. Stazyk, Associate Professor, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, Department of Public Administration and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York and Randall S. Davis, Associate Professor, School of Management and Marketing, College of Business and Analytics, Southern Illinois University, US

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Motivation in Public
Administration 1
Edmund C. Stazyk and Randall S. Davis

PART I THEORY AND FOUNDATIONS
2 The political economy of bureaucratic motivation 10
Yongjin Ahn and William Resh
3 Behavioral public administration and employee motivation 27
Carina Schott
4 The ins and outs of motivational crowding 39
Trent Engbers
5 Self-determination theory and public employee motivation research 57
Justin M. Stritch, Ulrich Thy Jensen and Michelle Allgood
6 Goals as a driver of public sector motivation 71
Edmund C. Stazyk and Jisang Kim
7 What do we know yet about public service motivation in Latin
America? A review of the evolution of empirical research 89
Pablo Sanabria-Pulido and Cristian Pliscoff
8 Experiments and qualitative methods: towards a methodological framework 105
Kai Xiang Kwa

PART II MOTIVATION AS A DRIVER OF SECTOR DECISIONS
9 Employee motivation across job sectors 122
Jaclyn Piatak
10 Monetary and non-monetary compensation in for-profit, nonprofit, and
public organizations: comparison and competition 137
Laura Langbein and Fei W. Roberts
11 Unionization and the motivational context in public management 154
Randall S. Davis and Warefta Rahman
12 Public pensions and employment in the public sector 168
Gang Chen and Hyewon Kang
13 Unreserved fund balance management practices in US counties 183
John A. Hamman, LaShonda M. Stewart, Brian C. Chapman and
Jeremy N. Phillips

PART III FACTORS AFFECTING RECRUITMENT, SELECTION,
AND RETENTION
14 Responsibility toward others is vital in public and non-profit
organizations: can we recruit, hire, and cultivate it? 201
Neil M. Boyd and Branda Nowell
15 Merit system integrity and public service motivation in the US federal
civil service: evidence on the importance of merit principles 219
Gene A. Brewer, J. Edward Kellough, and Hal G. Rainey
16 Job design and motivation: crafting the work of the public sector 234
Alexander C. Henderson and Jessica E. Sowa
17 Job design and public employee work motivation: towards an
institutional reading 249
David Giauque and Rafaël Weissbrodt
18 For the children? Teachers’ motivation and systems for recruitment,
retention, and evaluation 264
Stephen B. Holt
19 Public service motivation education and government career preferences:
a teaching agenda 284
Leonard Bright

PART IV MOTIVATION AND EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOR
20 Linking justice and employee performance in public organizations 293
Ellen V. Rubin and Minsung Michael Kang
21 Ethics, prosocial and public service motivation: disentangling their
relationship and identifying the implications for the public and
nonprofit sectors 307
Jessica Breaugh and Guillem Ripoll
22 Organizational identity orientation: a public sector research agenda 321
Julie Langer and Mary K. Feeney
23 Change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior in public
organizations: appropriateness, opportunity, risk, and public service
motivation 336
Jesse W. Campbell
24 Stressed versus motivated public employees: a systematic review
of the motivation and stress literatures through a contextualized job
demands-resources model 354
Rick T. Borst
25 Worked to a crisp: ‘realistic’ and ‘symbolic’ stressor effects on burnout 376
Adam C. Green
26 What happened to you? Understanding trauma and motivation in the
public service workplace 386
Heather Getha-Taylor and Morgan D. Farnworth

PART V CONCLUSION
27 Conclusions: where does motivation research in public administration
go from here? 401
Randall S. Davis and Edmund C. Stazyk

Index