%0 Journal Article
%T Exploring the Context Dependency of the PSM¨CPerformance Relationship
%A Lotte B£¿gh Andersen
%A Mikkel Lynggaard
%A Mogens Jin Pedersen
%J Review of Public Personnel Administration
%@ 1552-759X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0734371X16671371
%X The public service motivation (PSM) of public employees matters to their performance at work. Yet research on how context factors moderate the PSM¨Cperformance relationship is sparse. This article shows how the PSM¨Cperformance relationship may depend on two context factors: (a) the extent of work autonomy that a public organization provides its employees and (b) the service users¡¯ capacity to affect the organization¡¯s service provision. We test a set of moderation hypotheses using school data (teacher survey data with administrative data on schools and student). Using within-student between-teachers fixed effects regression, we find a stronger PSM¨Cperformance relationship in organizational contexts involving greater regulation of employee work autonomy for users with low to moderate user capacity
%K public service motivation
%K performance
%K work autonomy
%K user capacity
%K fixed effects
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0734371X16671371