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Testing the public service motivation and calling in Hungary

Zsuzsanna Horváth, Gábor Hollósy-Vadász

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The motivation of public servants has become crucial in the shaping of \nways and methods of the public sector reform. The goal of this study is to test a novel \nPSM (Public Service Motivation) model of the Hungarian public sector by adapting \nthe New Public Passion research framework. The novel model tests the predictive \nrelationship between PSM and Calling. By using an archive database of the ISSP 2015, \nfour hypotheses were tested, and verified one of them. Results demonstrate that a PSM \nmodel could in fact be adapted to the Hungarian public sector. Comparing the public \nsector and private sector employees, significant difference was found between the effect \nof organizational commitment on work satisfaction. In the public sector employee \nmodel, Calling had direct and indirect effects on work satisfaction.

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The motivation of public servants has become crucial in the shaping of \nways and methods of the public sector reform. The goal of this study is to test a novel \nPSM (Public Service Motivation) model of the Hungarian public sector by adapting \nthe New Public Passion research framework. The novel model tests the predictive \nrelationship between PSM and Calling. By using an archive database of the ISSP 2015, \nfour hypotheses were tested, and verified one of them. Results demonstrate that a PSM \nmodel could in fact be adapted to the Hungarian public sector. Comparing the public \nsector and private sector employees, significant difference was found between the effect \nof organizational commitment on work satisfaction. In the public sector employee \nmodel, Calling had direct and indirect effects on work satisfaction.

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The motivation of public servants has become crucial in the shaping of \nways and methods of the public sector reform. The goal of this study is to test a novel \nPSM (Public Service Motivation) model of the Hungarian public sector by adapting \nthe New Public Passion research framework. The novel model tests the predictive \nrelationship between PSM and Calling. By using an archive database of the ISSP 2015, \nfour hypotheses were tested, and verified one of them. Results demonstrate that a PSM \nmodel could in fact be adapted to the Hungarian public sector. Comparing the public \nsector and private sector employees, significant difference was found between the effect \nof organizational commitment on work satisfaction. In the public sector employee \nmodel, Calling had direct and indirect effects on work satisfaction.

Key concepts: Public sector, Public service motivation, Public service, Test (biology), Work (physics), Private sector, Public relations, Job satisfaction

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