Public Service Motivation Analysis

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In this regard, Downs criticized economist who had concluded that bureaucrats and politicians were “perfect altruist” whose goal is to maximize social welfare. Contrary to Downs’ opinion, I believe that it is necessary to transit from the old perspective of government as a profit company to a non-profit organization, understanding the opportunistic characteristic of the bureaucrats and politicians. The social contract born as a pact to institutionalize non-profit organizations named governments in order to achieve specific goals as was already mentioned before. The same ideology is used when some citizens constitute non-governmental organizations (NGO). It is necessary here to clarify exactly what is meant by NGO. In general terms, it is…show more content…
Perry and Wise defined public service motivation PSM as “an individual’s predisposition to respond motives grounded primarily or uniquely in public institutions”. The main principles of PSM are attraction to public policymaking, commitment to the public interest and civic duty. I do not consider appropriate to extend myself in the value and limits of PSM. Just mention that PSM is a tool that mitigates the principal agent problems, in combination with the other strategies proposed here, it will decrease other potential problems. In general terms, the advantage of implementing this strategy in the social contract is that agents will respond to the incentives of altruism, solidarity, conscience, and government reputation, recovering the idea of public ethos. Those bases are fundamental when the individual in a NGO understand that his job will be paid with a fair and equitable distributed salary, from the highest director to the lowest hierarchical worker. As well as discourage bureaucratic corruption and…show more content…
Stewardship. The idea of taking care of the public resources are entrusted, with the idea of oil scarcity and making sure that the funds are used equally and in the benefit of all citizens. 2. Accountability. Citizens, as stakeholders, need to be informed about the destination of public resources. Mexican government must replicate the NGO’s operational, moral and legal duty to explain their decisions and actions, and submit their financial reports to social scrutiny. 3. Transparency. One the most important advices in the OECD towards efficiency gain across the public sector it is opening, transparent and participative government. As we have seen, both public choice theory and agency theory emphasize the relevance of information among society. Applied to this comparison, at local level Mexican government must prepare accurate, complete and timely management reports regarding specific outcomes in
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