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Is Public Service Motivation–Performance Relationship Mediated by Other Factors?

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Although the association between public service motivation (PSM) of public employees and Performance has received increased attention, there are yet inconsistencies in the literature regarding how the PSM–performance relationship may be mediated by other factors. This study is based on a sample of 618 Italian public teachers and considers a set of hypotheses in public education in which the relationship is mediated by person–organization fit (P-O fit) and organizational commitment (OC). This mediated relationship varies depending on how performance is considered.

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  1. Department of Economics, Management and Institutions, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Raffaela Palma, Anna Crisci & Luigi D’Ambra

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Palma, R., Crisci, A., D’Ambra, L. (2021). Is Public Service Motivation–Performance Relationship Mediated by Other Factors?. In: Mariani, P., Zenga, M. (eds) Data Science and Social Research II. DSSR 2019. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51222-4_24

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