Attraction to Government Public Service Professions

Attracting competent, committed candidates to
government public service professions is of ongoing
concern to government leaders, recruiters, and
citizens. Without employees capable of achieving
governments objectives, acceptable standards in the
democratic delivery of public services are difficult
to achieve. Traditionally, choosing government
public service professions was considered the
response to a special calling and to an affinity
with employment environments imbued with the public
service ethos. With public services now delivered
from a multi-sectored environment, the locus of the
public service ethos is open to debate. The two main
goals of this research were to identify what most
strongly predicts the decisions of public and
business administration graduate students to enter
government public service professions and to assess
the public service ethos among a set of career
choice predictors from relevant literatures.

Autorentext
Lois Redman-Simmons (Ph.D. Rutgers University) is an Assistant
Professor in Public Administration at John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Marc Holzer (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is the Dean and Board
of Governors Professor of Public Affairs and Administration at
Rutgers University.

Klappentext
Attracting competent, committed candidates to government public service professions is of ongoing concern to government leaders, recruiters, and citizens. Without employees capable of achieving governments' objectives, acceptable standards in the democratic delivery of public services are difficult to achieve. Traditionally, choosing government public service professions was considered the response to a special calling and to an affinity with employment environments imbued with the public service ethos. With public services now delivered from a multi-sectored environment, the locus of the public service ethos is open to debate. The two main goals of this research were to identify what most strongly predicts the decisions of public and business administration graduate students to enter government public service professions and to assess the public service ethos among a set of career choice predictors from relevant literatures.