Public Service Motivation and the Circumplex Model of Affect: Profiling Australasian Public Servants
Review of Public Personnel Administration: The Journal of Public Human Resource Management
Published online on February 12, 2026
Abstract
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This paper explores public servants’ public service motivation through the prism of the circumplex model of affect (CMA). The application of CMA to work, and specifically public sector contexts, is relatively novel, and the framework helps explain how ...
This paper explores public servants’ public service motivation through the prism of the circumplex model of affect (CMA). The application of CMA to work, and specifically public sector contexts, is relatively novel, and the framework helps explain how ...