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100			_aThompson, Jeffery A.
245			_aBridging the public service motivation and calling literatures
260			_c2018
300			_ap.444-456.
504			_dMay/Jun
520			_aPublic administration research suggests there may be disparity in the extent to which public servants experience their work as a calling. The purpose of this article is to better illustrate and integrate calling research, which grows out of the positive organizational scholarship movement, into how we understand public service motives. The calling scholarship offers a productive way to view differences in public servants' orientations toward their work. Integrating calling into the public administration scholarship�particularly the public service motivation scholarship�provides insights to researchers and managers about how to help employees discover a deeper sense of meaningfulness in their work. In presenting the arguments and corresponding conceptual framework, the authors seek to supplement rather than replace the public service motivation construct. The authors articulate a research agenda that they believe will strengthen and enrich research on public servants' experience with their work. - Reproduced.
650			_aBureaucracy
650			_aBureaucrats
650			_aCivil service
650			_aMotivation
650			_aPublic administration
650			_aPublic service motivation
700			_aChristensen, Robert K.
773			_aPublic Administration Review
906			_aPublic administration
999			_c506910 _d506910