CALL FOR PAPERS
International Public Management Journal
Symposium on Public Service Motivation
The motivation of public servants has long been a topic of public concern, debate, and scholarly interest. Recent trends have given it new prominence. One development is what Don Kettl (2005) has called the "global public management revolution" driven by governments' search for continuously higher levels of productivity, service orientation, and accountability. Another trend is the consistent failures of motivational schemes like pay-for-performance (Ingraham, 1993) that were adapted from the private sector beginning in the late 1970s. A third trend, given impetus by the first two, is increasing attention to the merits of bureaucracy as an institution and normative order (Olsen, 2006). The intersection of these trends helps account for the growth of scholarly interest in public service motivation. Although public service motivation has been defined in specific ways in the literature (e.g., Perry and Wise, 1990), the construct generally represents differentiated knowledge about motivation that can be applied to improve behavioral outcomes (e.g., attraction, retention, performance, ethics) in public service settings. A long-standing problem in research about motivation is that it has been concentrated on industrial and business organizations (Perry and Porter, 1982; Kelman, 2005). The goal of this symposium is to highlight research that is conscious of the public context for motivation and intentional about incorporating public institution characteristics into theory or empirical research.
Some possible, but by no means exhaustive, topics or themes on which submissions might focus include:
* Studies that look at outcomes of particular motivational methods across settings for which there are clear institutional differences;
* Methods of measuring concepts that are particularly relevant for studying public service motivation;
* Longitudinal research that looks at the consequences of changing organizational incentives on the dispositions and identities of public servants.
* Empirical studies that compare public service motivation in one or more countries with findings from other countries;
* Studies that apply distinct perspectives from disciplines such as economics, organizational behavior, or sociology for understanding public service motivation.
Editors for this symposium are James Perry, Indiana University (
perry@iupui.edu <mailto:
perry@iupui.edu> ) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Annie Hondeghem, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (
annie.hondeghem@soc.kuleuven.be <mailto:
annie.hondeghem@soc.kuleuven.be> ). The editors welcome inquiries about the symposium. All submissions will be reviewed using the journal's normal double blind process. Authors interested in having a paper appear in the symposium should submit their manuscripts by February 1, 2007. Manuscripts are submitted electronically at
http://www.inpuma.net/IPMJ_submission.htm <http://www.inpuma.net/IPMJ_submission.htm> . The symposium is expected to be carried in Volume 11, No. 1, March 2008.
References
Ingraham, Patricia. 1993. "Of Pigs in Pokes and Policy Diffusion: Another Look at Pay-for-Performance." Public Administration Review, 53 (4): 348-356.
Kelman, Steven. 2005. "Public Management Needs Help!" Academy of Management Journal, 48 (6): 967-969.
Kettl, Donald. 2005. The Global Public Management Revolution, 2nd Edition. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.
Olsen, Johan P. 2006. "Maybe Its Time to Rediscover Bureaucracy." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 16: 1-24.
Perry, James L. and Porter, Lyman W. "Factors Affecting the Context for Motivation in Public Organizations." Academy of Management Review, 7 (1): 89-98.
Perry, James L. and Wise, Lois R. 1990. "The Motivational Bases of Public Service." Public Administration Review, 50 (3): 367-373.
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