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Definition of Motivation
Motivation is known to be driven by internal and/or external factors. When employees are motivated, they show higher interest in what they do and stronger commitment to their work, compared to non-motivated employees, and more likely to make efforts to achieve their goals and objectives.
Introduction
Scholars and practitioners have searched for better ways to improve governmental performance, based on the general idea that bureaucratic organizations like governments are likely to experience more bureaupathologies, which refer to maladies and sicknesses of bureaucracy such as inflexibility, mediocrity, and suboptimization (Wilson 1967). Public bureaucracies tend to be negatively regarded, and public employees are usually blamed for their low performance and insensitive response to citizens’ diverse demands.
One of the suggested approaches to dealing with bureaupathologies is to focus on the...
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Hur, Y. (2017). Public Employees and Motivation. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3236-1
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