ABSTRACT

This article examines the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and morale by surveying former bureaucrats from the National Security Intelligence (NIS) of Korea. Despite decades of research, there is still much room for exploring the effects of PSM and morale by extending the scope to government retirees. Our data demonstrate that the higher the level of PSM, the higher the level of morale both before and after retirement. We also find that recent political turmoil surrounding the agency influences the former agents of the agency. With the present study, we make theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature by addressing the PSM and morale of government retirees, who have been underrepresented in the literature to date, using empirical data from former agents of the NIS, which has also been rarely presented in previous research.

摘要

本文通过调查韩国国家安全情报局 (NIS) 的前官僚​​来检验公共服务动机 (PSM) 与士气之间的关系。尽管进行了数十年的研究，但通过将范围扩大到政府退休人员来探索 PSM 和士气的影响仍有很大空间。我们的数据表明，PSM 水平越高，退休前后的士气水平越高。我们还发现，最近围绕该机构的政治动荡影响了该机构的前代理人。在本研究中，我们使用来自 NIS 前代理人的经验数据，通过解决迄今为止在文献中代表性不足的政府退休人员的 PSM 和士气，为文献做出了理论和实证贡献，