Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service
We investigate the interaction of pro-social motivation and wages in pro-social organizations with a novel subject pool, 1700 students destined for the private and public sectors in Indonesia, using a measure of pro-social motivation that exactly matches the mission of the organization. Three novel...
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okr-10986-239352021-05-25T10:54:43Z Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service Banuri, Sheheryar Keefer, Philip Public sector reform civil service motivation We investigate the interaction of pro-social motivation and wages in pro-social organizations with a novel subject pool, 1700 students destined for the private and public sectors in Indonesia, using a measure of pro-social motivation that exactly matches the mission of the organization. Three novel conclusions emerge. Consistent with a common, but untested, assumption in the theoretical literature, workers with greater pro-social motivation exert higher real effort. However, high pay attracts less pro-socially motivated individuals. Furthermore, we also test whether a real world pro-social organization (the Indonesian Ministry of Finance) attracts pro-socially motivated workers. We find that prospective entrants into the Indonesian Ministry of Finance exhibit higher levels of pro-social motivation than a comparable sample of general workers. 2016-03-10T20:22:45Z 2016-03-10T20:22:45Z 2016-04 Journal Article European Economic Review 0014-2921 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23935 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research |
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We investigate the interaction of pro-social motivation and wages in pro-social organizations with a novel subject pool, 1700 students destined for the private and public sectors in Indonesia, using a measure of pro-social motivation that exactly matches the mission of the organization. Three novel conclusions emerge. Consistent with a common, but untested, assumption in the theoretical literature, workers with greater pro-social motivation exert higher real effort. However, high pay attracts less pro-socially motivated individuals. Furthermore, we also test whether a real world pro-social organization (the Indonesian Ministry of Finance) attracts pro-socially motivated workers. We find that prospective entrants into the Indonesian Ministry of Finance exhibit higher levels of pro-social motivation than a comparable sample of general workers. |
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Banuri, Sheheryar Keefer, Philip |
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Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service |
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Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service |
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Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service |
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Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service |
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