Public Service Motivation Measurement : A Test for Perry's Proposed Scale in China

DOI

10.2991/icpm.2013.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

public service motivation, Perry; confirmatory factor analysis, Chinese civil servant

Abstract

This article proposes and tests a shortened instrument for public service motivation based on Perry’s (1996) exploratory 24-item scale according to the investigation of Chinese civil servant in Kunming city. Results show good support for the shortened scale compared to Perry’s original work through investigating the PSM of Chinese civil servant in Kunming city. We got a 14-item scale for three factors, but the CIP dimension has not been emerged in the present study. At the same time, the results show that the total level of PSM for Chinese civil servant who was drew from the basic level of city government in Kunming, Yunnan is higher. Of three dimensions, the Mean of compassion is highest with a M=4.0871, the Mean of self-sacrifice is relatively low with a M=3.7328.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Kaipeng Gan
AU  - Linghua Li
AU  - Qiu Wang
PY  - 2013/05
DA  - 2013/05
TI  - Public Service Motivation Measurement : A Test for Perry's Proposed Scale in China
BT  - Public Administration In The Time Of Regional Change (ICPM 2013) <br> Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Public Management 2013
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 8
EP  - 12
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icpm.2013.2
DO  - 10.2991/icpm.2013.2
ID  - Gan2013/05
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