The articles “Revisiting the motivational bases of public service: Twenty years of research and an agenda for the future” by James Perry, Annie Hondeghem, & Lois Recascino Wise and “Integrating values into public service: The values statement as centerpiece” by Kenneth Kernagham show the public worker’s motivational origins and how service ethic ideologies have changed over time in public organizations. These two articles support the first, advance the public interest, and the seventh, promote ethical organizations, American Society of Public Administration (A.S.P.A.) code of ethics. They also partially assist in understanding the role of public management values.
To begin with, the A.S.P.A. first code of ethics states that a public servant must uphold to advance the public interest by providing attention and importance to the people they assist. According to Perry, Hondeghem & Wise (2010), public service motivation comes from people
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