Public Service Motivation as a Predictor of Corruption, Dishonesty, and Altruism

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://academic.oup.com/jpart/article-abstract/32/2/287/6295648" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/jpart/article-abstract/32/2/287/6295648</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muab018" target="_blank" >10.1093/jopart/muab018</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Public Service Motivation as a Predictor of Corruption, Dishonesty, and Altruism

Original language description

Understanding how Public Service Motivation (PSM) is tied to ethical or unethical conduct is critically important, given that civil servants and other public-sector employees throughout the world have been shown to exhibit high PSM levels. However, empirical evidence about the relationship between PSM and ethical or unethical behavior remains limited, due in part to the challenges of observing unethical conduct and overcoming social desirability bias in self-reported measures. We address these challenges by employing incentivized experimental games to study the relationships between PSM and two types of unethical behavior - corruption and dishonesty - as well as one type of ethical behavior: altruism. Based on data from approximately 1,870 university students at three research sites in Russia and Ukraine, we find evidence of a robust negative association between PSM and willingness to engage in corruption and a positive association between PSM and altruistic behavior. Results concerning dishonesty are more mixed. Our findings indicate that corruption and dishonesty are related yet fundamentally distinct concepts, particularly with respect to their compatibility with PSM. The findings additionally demonstrate that hypotheses about PSM and behavioral ethics generated in the Western context generalize well to the starkly different institutional context of the former Soviet Union.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

ISSN

10531858

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

287-309

UT code for WoS article

000764409800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85114870198