期刊
REVIEW OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
卷 38, 期 4, 页码 387-414出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X16671369
关键词
public values; sedimentation of values; Q-sort methodology; government perspectives
What defines a good civil servant is not self-evident. In fact, when you ask civil servants what it means to be a good civil servant and to do a good job, you receive differing responses based on the various values that guide the way each individual approaches their job. The differing values can be traced to well-established perspectives in the literatures of public administration, governance, and political science. Each perspective defines good government and being a good civil servant in different ways, elevating differing values in the process. These perspectives are institutionalized and internalized in the present-day reality of public administration. Therefore, a present-day civil servant works amid a variety of competing perspectives about what good government and being a good civil servant mean. It is interesting how various perspectives on good governance and being a good civil servant play out in the working-practice of civil servants: How do values from the various governance perspectives guide the practical actions of civil servants? To answer this question, we conducted a research project to look for patterns in the values that guide the work of civil servants. We distinguished four governance perspectives from literature on governance. We translated these four governance perspectives into typical value statements that guide practical action, and used Q-methodology to survey civil servants with these perspectives as options. We found four distinct profiles of combined values that apparently guide the practical actions of civil servants. The profiles help us better understand the variety of values that guide practical actions of civil servants.
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