Table 2.
Selected Articles on Public Service Motivation, Their Characteristics, and Correlations.
| Article | Sample | Number of correlations testeda | Number of those correlations that were significant | Average correlationb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quratulain and Khan (2015) | 217 public servants | 6 | 1 | .07 |
| van Loon (2015) | 459 employees in people-changing organizations and 461 employees in people-processing organizations | 8 | 6 | .20 |
| French and Emerson (2015) | 272 employees of a local government | 9 | 6 | .22 |
| Campbell and Im (2015) | 480 ministry employees | 6 | 5 | .26 |
| Ritz, Giauque, Varone, and Anderfuhren-Biget (2014) | 569 public managers at the local level | 3 | 3 | .26 |
| Vandenabeele (2014) | 3.506 state civil servants | 4 | 4 | .20 |
| Sum | 36 | 25 | .20 |
a
These are the correlations that were tested between public service motivation and other self-reported measures (excluding demographic characteristics) derived from the same survey.
b
This is the average correlation (absolute value) in each study of all the identified correlations between public service motivation and other self-reported measures (excluding demographic characteristics) derived from the same survey.