The Public Sector Employee and the Motivation in Serving for the Greater Good of Humanity
The Public Sector Employee and the Motivation in Serving for the Greater Good of Humanity

Author: Nelly Sosa Castellanos

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13:

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An individual who takes a career path in the public sector contributes to the purpose of organizing, enforcing and shepherding the agencies that administer the laws and regulations that give breath to the public organizations that exists. The existence of public administration is for public servants to fulfill the paramount responsibility for human lives, providing a care that will result in a positive impact to society. Whether the amount of responsibility is a small community, city, county, state or an entire country, public sector employees enter this field with some personal connection and value to public service ethos. Awareness that one can contribute for the greater good of society and get income from doing so can be both inspiring and rewarding. Public Service Motivation (PSM) is a fundamental element in public sector organizations. A gap in PSM literature exists in studying current motivation levels of public service employees in social service organizations. Welfare offices such as The Department of Public Social Services in Los Angeles County form part of the various branches of government organizations and can potentially provide fruitful data regarding PSM. Study of PSM within this organization will contribute and form part as another scholarly work in understanding motivation in government organizations. In addition, this study will provide public organizations an opportunity of self-reflection to discover what factors are needed to improve public organizations, motivating public servants for recruitment and retention purposes.

Public Human Resource Management
Public Human Resource Management

Author: R. Paul Battaglio Jr.

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1483311392

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Public Human Resource Management: Strategies and Practices in the 21st Century offers a novel take on public human resource management (PHRM) by providing practical guidance for practitioners operating in a drastically reformed HR environment. Author R. Paul Battaglio assesses how the traditional practice of public HR has changed—and not necessarily for the better--by looking at new material on human resource information systems, managing motivation in the public sector, and public HR management education (a topic rarely found in contemporary PHRM texts). Public Human Resource Management is an essential guide to managing and navigating the challenges and opportunities posed in the changing landscape of HR reform.

Engaging Government Employees
Engaging Government Employees

Author: Bob Lavigna

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780814432792

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Government employees face enormous challenges today, including being stigmatized as underworked and overpaid. At the same time, they're being asked to solve some of our toughest problems including unemployment, security, poverty, and education. In Engaging Government Employees, Bob Lavigna gives managers the tools they need to leverage the talents of government's most important resource: its people. He shows them how to measure, nurture, and sustain the kind of authentic employee engagement that drives results. With over three decades of experience in public sector HR, he knows how to get team members passionate about the agency's mission, and committed to its success. Readers will learn: * Why a highly engaged staff is 20 percent more productive * How to get employees to deliver "discretionary effort" * How to assess the level of engagement * Why free pizza and Coke every Friday is not a viable strategy * And more Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence, Engaging Government Employees rejects the typical, one-size-fits-all approach to motivation and shows how America's largest employer can apply the science of engagement to dramatically improve performance.

Motivation in Public Management
Motivation in Public Management

Author: James L. Perry

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-05-15

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0191552836

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Motivation in Public Management: The Call of Public Service joins a long-standing debate about what drives the behavior of government employees and others who are engaged in the public's business. For many centuries, public service was considered a noble calling and, more recently, a profession. During the latter part of the 20th century, however, many scholars called into question both the reality and desirability of a public service ethic. This book draws upon a substantial and growing body of evidence from across disciplines in the social, behavioral, and natural sciences. It asks and answers key questions about the extent to which behavior is fundamentally self- or other-regarding. To paraphrase James Madison, 'public servants are not angels,' but neither are they self-aggrandizing opportunists. The evidence presented in this volume offers a compelling case that motivation theory should be grounded not only in rational choice models, but altruistic and prosocial perspectives as well. In addition to reviewing evidence from many disciplines, the volume extensively reviews research in public management conducted under the rubric of 'public service motivation'. The volume is a comprehensive guide to history, methodology, empirical research, and institutional and managerial implications of research on public service motivation. As the contributors illustrate, the implications transcend particular sectors or countries.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant
The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant

Author: Helen Sullivan

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 1737

ISBN-13: 9783030299798

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant examines what it means to be a public servant in today’s world(s) where globalisation and neoliberalism have proliferated the number of actors who contribute to the public purpose sector and created new spaces that public servants now operate in. It considers how different scholarly approaches can contribute to a better understanding of the identities, motivations, values, roles, skills, positions and futures for the public servant, and how scholarly knowledge can be informed by and translated into value for practice. The book combines academic contributions with those from practitioners so that key lessons may be synthesised and translated into the context of the public servant.

Human Resource Management in Public Service
Human Resource Management in Public Service

Author: Evan M. Berman

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 733

ISBN-13: 1506382320

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Recognizing the inherent tensions and contradictions that result from managing people in organizations, Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems offers provocative and thorough coverage of the complex issues of management in the public sector. Continuing the award-winning tradition of previous editions, this Sixth Edition helps students to understand complex managerial puzzles and explores the stages of the employment process, including recruitment, selection, training, legal rights and responsibilities, compensation, and appraisal. Grounded in real public service experiences, the book emphasizes hands-on skill building and problem solving. New to the Sixth Edition: Ethics case studies have been added to all the chapters, enabling students to learn about a variety of ethical situations that come up in management. Updated and consolidated recruiting strategies offer students a window into the most current methods used in the recruitment process and provide insight into the job seeker’s perspective. New examples from a broad range of local, state, federal, and international settings enable students to apply key concepts to common management issues.

Motivation in Public Management
Motivation in Public Management

Author: James L. Perry

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008-05-15

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0199234035

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Are public servants self-interested, or motivated by a sense of duty and commitment far above what we would expect given their often modest compensation and frequent public criticism? This book looks at research on this and related questions in assessing the current state of our scientific knowledge.

The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook
The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook

Author: Jessica K. A. Word

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1351722360

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As an increasing number of individuals go to work in the nonprofit sector, nonprofit managers need support on how best to build their human resource management capacity. They need to know what systems to examine, what questions to ask, and how to ensure they are managing people in a legal manner and as effectively as possible given their particular resource constraints. Important questions include: Do we have a clear philosophy, one that aligns with our nonprofit mission and values and allows us to treat our employees as the professionals they are? How do we select, develop, and retain the best people who will produce high value, high performance work, and how do we do so with limited resources? How do we effectively manage our mix of volunteers and paid staff? What do we need to consider to ensure diverse people work together in a harmonious fashion? With all-new chapters written by the top scholars in the field of nonprofit HRM, these are but a few of the many questions that are addressed in this timely volume. These scholars delve into their particular areas of expertise, offering a comprehensive look at theories and trends; legal and ethical issues; how to build HRM from recruitment, management, labor relations, to training and appraisal; as well as topics in diversity, technology, and paid versus volunteer workforce management. This essential handbook offers all core topic coverage as well as countless insider insights, additional resource lists, and tool sets for practical application. With chapters grounded in existing research, but also connecting research to practice for those in the field, The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook will be required reading for a generation of scholars, students, and practitioners of nonprofit human resource management.

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics
Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics

Author: Daniel S. Hamermesh

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1472932641

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IZA World of Labor distils and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers make better informed policy decisions. Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, the findings on each topic are presented in a compact and readable format, as distillations of comprehensive evidence-based research. The IZA World of Labor Policy Handbook brings together summaries of over one hundred research articles to give busy policy-makers and advisors worldwide instant access to reliable, and up-to-date guidance on key policy topics including: migration and immigration; the minimum wage; supporting an aging workforce; the gender pay gap; microfinance in developing countries.

Research Handbook on HRM in the Public Sector
Research Handbook on HRM in the Public Sector

Author: Steijn, Bram

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-12-10

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1789906628

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Bringing together over fifty leading global experts, this Research Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of research findings regarding Human Resource Management (HRM) in the public sector. Original chapters provide useful insights from two different disciplines: public administration and HRM. They illustrate that the public context of organisations matters and discuss research findings detailing how this plays out in practice.