Following the publication of Perry and Wise’s essay on public service motivation (PSM) in 1990 and Perry’s PSM measurement scale in 1996, the concept of public service motivation has attracted wide attention and empirical research on its definition, measurement and incidence in the past twenty years. However, little empirical research has been conducted on PSM in Hong Kong. This research is intended to examine the dimensionality and generalizability of PSM in Hong Kong by using self-administered survey instruments with two groups of different respondents. Group 1 consisted of 55 students of Master of Public Administration of the University of Hong Kong (mostly full time public servants) whilst Group 2 consisted of 78 undergraduates from different faculties in the same university. Two separate survey instruments were used for group 1 and group 2 respondents. All 40 items of Perry’s PSM dimensions were included in the two survey instruments with additional 7 items and 8 items added for group 1 and group 2 respectively. The additional items were introduced to measure the relationship of variables including organizational commitment and job expectation and PSM dimensions. The findings did not reveal the PSM level of group 1 was higher than group 2. However, females were found having relatively higher PSM level than males under the dimension of Attraction to Public Policy Making. The independent variable of Organization Commitment was strongly and positively correlated with the dimensions of Commitment to Public Interest, Civic Duty and Self Sacrifice while Job Expectation was strongly and positively correlated with the dimensions of Attraction to Public Policy Making, Social Justice, Civic Duty and Self Sacrifice. This research contributed to provide better understanding and knowledge of PSM in the Hong Kong context especially on the influence of the independent variables of organizational commitment and job expectation on PSM dimensions. / published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

Qin, Shuang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in Chinese.

Key Words: Formal Institution, Organizational Informal Institution, Institutionalisation of Public Administration, Chinese Land Administration, New Institutionalism / The conclusions of this dissertation are as follows. The institutionalization of public administration in China have not achieved an ideal level no matter examining from the formulation of institution, the recognition and implementation of institution or the performance of administration and the penalty of the anti-institutional behavior. The main reason lead to this situation is that the local administration actors will develop informal institutions (rules) for the sake of protecting their own interests or accomplishing the task from above during administration and policy implementation under current institutional settings. These organizational informal institutions (rules) influence the implementation of formal institution and lead to the low performance and low institutionalization of public administration in the whole while they help to achieve local interests and temporary administration objects. / The existing researches always take the low institutionalization and low performance of Chinese governance as the function of such factors as rationalization of Weberian bureaucracy, structure and function of governance, political system, and so on. And raise hypotheses on Chinese governance form basing on the above knowledge. This dissertation will interpret the operation of local public administration from "organizational informal institutions", and supply a new interpretative perspective other than the current studies for the institutionalization, performance and their causes on Chinese public administration. / The new institutionalism literature considers the informal institutions as spontaneous, scattered, and unwritten ones and supposes their effects were just one-fold and one-shot. The findings of this article show that the popular, isomorphic informal rules in Chinese local administration are organizational even written ones. Theft effects upon formal institutions are not just one-fold and one-shot but complex and variable. These findings give some amendment or complement to the new institutionalism on the role of the informal institutions. / The questions to be interpreted in this dissertation are as follows: How is the status in quo of the institutionalization and performance of Chinese public administration at the local level under reform? Why in some field the formal law and institution often haven't been implemented fully? What are the factors affecting the institutionalization and performance of Chinese public administration? What roles do the formal and informal institutions play? Why do the organizational informal rules exist in Chinese public administration popularly? This dissertation will supply a new evaluation and analysis of the institutionalization and performance of Chinese local governments through a case study on local administration. / This dissertation also discusses systematically the factors lead to the informal institutions from the interest structure, property right, and integrated institutional arrangement and analyses the social effects of the organizational informal institutions. It has also summarized theoretically and systematically the informal institutions (rules) lying in Chinese local land administration for the first time and given a deep interpretation on the bad performance of the macro- regulation and control of real estate market. The approaches to reform land administration and improve the regulation of real estate market in China have also been discussed. / 謝志巋. / Adviser: Tsao King Kwun. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-01, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Xie Zhikui.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Government and Public Administration

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Government and Public Administration

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Government and Public Administration