The Centrality of Prosocial Values in Work Motivation among Public and Private Sector Employees
Purpose: The paper proposes an alternative measure of the importance of prosocial values in the work motivation of public and private sector employees. Hitherto research measures the importance of values by taking them as autonomous entities or using a factorial design, asking employees whether the...
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Purpose: The paper proposes an alternative measure of the importance of prosocial values in the work motivation of public and private sector employees. Hitherto research measures the importance of values by taking them as autonomous entities or using a factorial design, asking employees whether they adhere to a certain value or not.
Design/methodology/approach: Based on a psychological theory on values and motivation, the paper argues that it might be preferred to measure the centrality of prosocial values amidst other job motivators in the value system as a whole to assess the degree of prosocial values’ dominance.
Findings: The application of such a measure in a longitudinal and international comparative analysis shows that differences in the centrality of prosocial values make the difference between employees in the public and private sectors much more pronounced than usually found in the relevant literature. This finding does not disappear when the research model includes the nature of the job, individual characteristics, and societal features, such as the GDP per capita and the dominance of individualism over collectivism in society.
Significance: This research also shows that differences between employees adhering to intrinsic, extrinsic, and prosocial motivations are relative, as almost all employees – irrespective of where they work – assess values of job security and having an interesting job to be the most important work motivators.
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| spelling | doaj-art-e3bef1fa01df4a5d92215f1d67b02d8c2025-01-22T10:50:24ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Central European Public Administration Review2591-22402591-22592022-11-0120210.17573/cepar.2022.2.02The Centrality of Prosocial Values in Work Motivation among Public and Private Sector EmployeesEgle Vaidelytė0Vaidas Morkevičius1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2174-0396Egle Butkevičienė2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5631-360XMichiel de Vries3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6827-2852Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, LithuaniaKaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, LithuaniaKaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, LithuaniaRadboud University of Nijmegen, Department of Public Administration, The Netherlands; Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Lithuania; University of Johannesburg, School of Public Management, Governance and Public Policy, South Africa Purpose: The paper proposes an alternative measure of the importance of prosocial values in the work motivation of public and private sector employees. Hitherto research measures the importance of values by taking them as autonomous entities or using a factorial design, asking employees whether they adhere to a certain value or not. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a psychological theory on values and motivation, the paper argues that it might be preferred to measure the centrality of prosocial values amidst other job motivators in the value system as a whole to assess the degree of prosocial values’ dominance. Findings: The application of such a measure in a longitudinal and international comparative analysis shows that differences in the centrality of prosocial values make the difference between employees in the public and private sectors much more pronounced than usually found in the relevant literature. This finding does not disappear when the research model includes the nature of the job, individual characteristics, and societal features, such as the GDP per capita and the dominance of individualism over collectivism in society. Significance: This research also shows that differences between employees adhering to intrinsic, extrinsic, and prosocial motivations are relative, as almost all employees – irrespective of where they work – assess values of job security and having an interesting job to be the most important work motivators. https://journals.uni-lj.si/CEPAR/article/view/20604prosocial values, job motivation, comparative analysis, International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) |
| spellingShingle | Egle Vaidelytė Vaidas Morkevičius Egle Butkevičienė Michiel de Vries The Centrality of Prosocial Values in Work Motivation among Public and Private Sector Employees Central European Public Administration Review prosocial values, job motivation, comparative analysis, International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) |
| title | The Centrality of Prosocial Values in Work Motivation among Public and Private Sector Employees |
| title_full | The Centrality of Prosocial Values in Work Motivation among Public and Private Sector Employees |
| title_fullStr | The Centrality of Prosocial Values in Work Motivation among Public and Private Sector Employees |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Centrality of Prosocial Values in Work Motivation among Public and Private Sector Employees |
| title_short | The Centrality of Prosocial Values in Work Motivation among Public and Private Sector Employees |
| title_sort | centrality of prosocial values in work motivation among public and private sector employees |
| topic | prosocial values, job motivation, comparative analysis, International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/CEPAR/article/view/20604 |
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