One of the main practical recommendations from the copious public service motivation literature is that human resources (HR) professionals should use public service motivation (PSM) to assist in selecting candidates for public service jobs. To test if PSM is indeed attractive to HR professionals in selecting applicants to work in the public sector, 238 HR managers recruited from the International Public Management Association for Human Resources rated three cover letters and then rated themselves about PSM and the Big 5 personality traits. The cover letters were randomized on most likely combinations of PSM and Big 5, revealed in earlier research. Our results are that real HR professionals did not rate cover letters more highly when they displayed aspects of PSM.

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公共服务动机，人格与公共管理人员的聘用决策：一项实验研究

大量公共服务动机文献中的主要实践建议之一是，人力资源（HR）专业人员应使用公共服务动机（PSM）来协助选择公共服务职位的候选人。为了测试PSM在选择应聘人员到公共部门方面是否确实对人力资源专业人员有吸引力，从国际人力资源公共管理协会招募的238名人力资源经理对三封求职信进行了评级，然后对PSM和5大人格特质进行了自我评估。求职信被随机分配到PSM和Big 5的最可能组合上，该组合在早期的研究中得到了证实。我们的结果是，真正的人力资源专业人员在展示PSM方面时并未对求职信给予更高的评价。