Abstract
Public management scholars have proposed that public service motivation plays an important role in shaping employees’ commitment to their organizations, but few studies have examined the conditions under which this relationship may be strengthened or weakened. Drawing on self-determination theory and the person-organization fit perspective, we propose that public service motivation will be most positively related to organizational commitment when accompanied by high levels of intrinsic motivation and ethical leadership. A field study of 196 employees nested within 44 work units in a large public organization in Thailand provided support for this contingency perspective. A significant three-way interaction revealed that the employees had the highest level of organizational commitment when their public service motivation, intrinsic motivation and ethical leadership were all high. Counterintuitively, the employees tended to have the lowest level of organizational commitment when their public service motivati...
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