Öğretmen ve Okul Yöneticilerinin Gözünden Kamu Hizmeti Motivasyonu: Nitel Bir Çalışma

İnayet Aydin,Özge Erdemli̇,Nihan Demi̇rkasimoğlu,Tuğba Güner Demi̇r

doi:10.9779/pauefd.466941

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https://doi.org/10.9779/pauefd.466941

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Teachers and school administrators as public servants are people who devote themselves to the education of young people and raise up future generations. Due to their role in the transformation of the society and building of the future for new generations, it is important to what extent they adopt the ideas and motivation of public service . In this study, it is aimed to investigate how teachers and school administrators working in public primary and secondary schools conceptualize public service motivation. The study was designed as qualitative research and the data were collected through interviews with teachers and administrators who worked at public schools for at least five years. Data were analyzed by using NVivo 10 package program and content analysis method. According to the findings obtained in the study, what participants understand from the concept of “public duty”, why they have chosen to work in the public service, the challenging issues they come face to face with while performing their public service, the reasons which lower their public service motivations and the suggestions in terms of increasing the level of motivation have been explained

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Public service motivation is among issues which have been raising more and more interest today in literature
Results obtained as a result of the interviews done with the teachers and school administrators are presented under related headings in accordance with the aims of the study
When what the teachers and school administrators who work in state schools understand from public service was analyzed, it was seen that the teachers and school administrators underlined providing public interest as the most important characteristic of public service

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Public service motivation is among issues which have been raising more and more interest today in literature. It has been observed that the subject of public service motivation has not sufficiently been discussed in the educational sector which is a public service area. The views of teachers and school administrators, who work in the educational sector which is a public service area, on public service motivation have been analyzed due to the need to discuss the issue further. Many definitions have been made in the literature about public service motivation. Rainey and Steinbauer (1999, 23) define this concept as “a general altruistic motivation to serve the interests of a community of people, a state, a nation, or humankind.”. Perry and Wise (1990, 368) define this concept as “an individual's predisposition to respond to motives grounded primarily or uniquely in public institutions” Many definitions have been made in the literature about public service motivation. Rainey and Steinbauer (1999, 23) define this concept as “a general altruistic motivation to serve the interests of a community of people, a state, a nation, or humankind.” In a similar definition, public service motivation is expressed as “the motivational force that induces individuals to perform meaningful public service (i.e., public, community, and social service)” (Brewer & Selden, 1998, 417). Perry and Wise (1990, 368) define this concept as “an individual's predisposition to respond to motives grounded primarily or uniquely in public institutions”

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