SAGE Journal Articles

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Public Employees With High Levels of Public Service Motivation: Who Are They, Where Are They, and What do They Want?, Review of Public Personnel Administration 2005, 25: 138-153.

Questions that apply to article:

  1. Why are you attracted to public service?  Are your reasons rational, normative, or affective?
  2. The goal of this study was to describe public employees with high levels of public service motivation.  What were the findings?

 

New Directions in Goal-Setting Theory : Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham, Current Directions in Psychological Science 2006, 15: 265-268.

Questions that apply to article:

  1. Why do we set goals?
  2. What is the relationship between goals and performance?
  3. Explain the eight categories of studies that have moved goal theory forward?

 

Public Service Reform and Motivation: Evidence From an Employment At-Will Environment: R. Paul Battaglio, Jr., Review of Public Personnel Administration 2010, 30 (3): 341-363.

Questions that apply to article:

  1. Why do African-American HR managers view EAW systems as a tool for discrimination?
  2. How does an EAW system impact motivation? Do you a agree or disagree with this assessment?