The Effect of Public Servants’ Reinvention Reform Perception on Organizational Performance in Taiwan: The Mediating Roles of Public Service Motivation and Organizational Commitment
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The Effect of Public Servants’ Reinvention Reform Perception on Organizational Performance in Taiwan: The Mediating Roles of Public Service Motivation and Organizational Commitment
This study investigates the effects of public servants’ reinvention reform perceptions, public service motivation (PSM), and organizational commitment on organizational performance in the public sector. There is very little research exploring those relationships in Taiwan, and the topic is thus worthy of more systematic examination. This paper utilizes the Taiwan Government Bureaucrats Survey II (TGBS II), which collected 1,464 valid samples from the public sector and used structural equation model to test the hypotheses. We find that reinvention reform perception positively affects public servants’ PSM, organizational commitment and organizational performance. Finally, results demonstrate that organizational commitment mediates the relationship between PSM and organizational performance.
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