대학생의 직업선택동기와 공직동기

초록

Despite the well-known postulate that the high public service spirit holders prefer to pursue a public sector career instead of a private one, few empirical studies test this postulate. Moreover, while a substantial number of empirical studies done in the US context claim the existence of public service motivation (PSM) among incumbent public employees, it is unclear whether PSM theory is applicable for explaining the job choice of future public servants in Korea. This study surveyed 731 undergraduate students at ten Korean universities and empirically tested several hypotheses with respect to the determinants of the public/private sector job choice. The major findings of this study are: 1) public service spirit is fairly insignificant to public sector job seekers even though they rank it higher than private sector job seekers do, 2) the more positive the attitude to the public sector, the more undergraduates are likely to prefer a public sector job, and 3) parental influence and gender are not associated with public service spirit or job choice.

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