While public service motivation (PSM) and teamwork are widely recognized as crucial drivers for effective public service delivery, researchers primarily analyze these factors independently and at a personal level. The existing literature rarely explores the interplay between PSM, the project...

Die Einführung des Lehrkräfteverbeamtungsgesetzes in Berlin im Februar 2023 soll dem Fachkräftemängel an Schulen positiv entgegenwirken. Diese Masterarbeit untersucht in diesem Kontext, welche motivationalen Einflussfaktoren die Verbeamtungspräferenzen von Lehramtsstudierenden und jungen...

A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his...