%0 Journal Article
%T The Role of Financial Performance in Motivating Polish Municipal Employees
%A Michele Tantardini
%A Palina Prysmakova
%A Tomasz Potka¨½ski
%J Review of Public Personnel Administration
%@ 1552-759X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0734371X16685600
%X This article explores the relationship between employees¡¯ public service motivation (PSM) and public administrations¡¯ financial performance from the perspective of human resource management (HRM). The purpose of this article is twofold: first, we seek to understand the relationship between organizational financial performance and individual-level PSM by focusing on how financial performance is associated with PSM. Second, while acknowledging previous findings on the impact of employees¡¯ work attitudes on performance, we explore the possibility of an opposite causality. After assessing several theoretical and empirical propositions that support an additional direction of causality, we use a sample of municipal employees from Poland to test how financial performance affects individual PSM. By analyzing five financial indicators, we find that financial performance might predict individuals¡¯ PSM. We also propose that a negative relationship occurs when organizations achieve financial goals through HRM practices that negatively affect employees, such as worsening of work conditions, increased workload, and inadequate remuneration
%K public service motivation
%K financial performance
%K local government
%K Poland
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0734371X16685600