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Innovative Behavior and Prosocial Motivation of Russian Civil Servants

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  • Tim Jaekel

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

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The motivation of civil servants has a considerable impact on their decision-making and thus the performance of a bureaucratic agency. This paper studies how innovative and error-correcting behavior of Russian public civil servants correlates with three types of motivation: public service motivation (PSM), power motivation (PM) and security motivation (SM). Civil servants with a higher level of PSM are expected to correct existing errors in standard operating procedures (SOP) and to introduce “new ways of doing things” (Fernandez and Moldogaziev 2013); and so to improve their organizations’ performance and citizens’ well-being by enhancing organizational learning. For empirical analysis the paper uses a new unique dataset with some 1,600 responses from a survey questionnaire among local civil servants in the Russian region of Leningrad. The results from regression analyses demonstrate that prosocial motivation (seven item scale, Cronbach’s alpha =0.72), power motivation (nine-item scale, Cronbach’s alpha=0.78), employee encouragement, empowerment practices, and citizens orientation are positively correlated with innovative and error-correcting. In contrast the level of security motivation and job satisfaction fail to achieve statistical significance throughout all models

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  • Tim Jaekel, 2017. "Innovative Behavior and Prosocial Motivation of Russian Civil Servants," HSE Working papers WP BRP 09/PSP/2017, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hig:wpaper:09/psp/2017
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    Keywords

    behavioral public administration (BPA); innovative behavior; error-correcting behavior; motivation; civil servants; Russia;
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    JEL classification:

    • D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • H83 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Public Administration

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