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Public service motivation as an important area of study is receiving an increased attention among organization behavior and public management researchers. There is a growing concern for declining motivation level of public officials working at different levels in organizations. The paper based on the findings of empirical data presents the relationship of Big Five personality traits including; extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience with Public Service Motivation (PSM) and its four dimensions i.e. attraction to public policy, compassion, self-sacrifice and commitment to public institutions. The paper adopts a Crosssectional, descriptive and single sample design as a basic research design. Expert sampling technique is used as the main sampling method, which is a type of Non-probability purposive sampling, where the data have been collected from the secretaries of all the departments of Punjab Government. PSM questionnaire (Perry, 1997) along with Ten Items Personality Inventory (TIPI) (Gosling, Rentfrow& Swann, 2003) has been used as the questionnaire tool for data collection. The correlation results indicated that Personality was closely linked to Public Service Motivation. It was found that extraversion indirectly related to the attraction to policy making dimension, Agreeableness trait was also positively associated with PSM; neuroticism was positively linked to the PSM especially the compassion dimension. Conscientiousness was found to be negatively related to PSM especially with its commitment to public interest dimension; whereas openness to experience showed a varying trend. Briefly stating, the Big Five of personality had a close linkage with PSM which may vary from one context to another as pointed by the cross cultural comparison with Taiwan. The paper provides useful policy recommendations to enhance public service motivation through strengthening the positive personality dimensions among the civil servants and improving the best person job fit at workplaces.

Ms. Rahat-ul-Ain, Dr. NasiraJadoon, Dr. ZafarIqbalJadoon, Ms. Zahara Paul . (2015) Public Service Motivation and the Big Five Personalty Traits: The Case of Provincial Services of Pakistan, Journal of Research ( Humanities), Volume LI, Issue 1.
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