Career values of public administration and public policy students in China, Malaysia and the United States
By: INFELD, Donna Lind
.
Contributor(s): ADAMS, William C | QI, Guanghua | ROSNAH, Nik.
Material type: 
ArticlePublisher: Philadelphia : Routledge, dec. 2010Subject(s): Serviço Público | Educação | Política Educacional | Capacitação Profissional | MotivaçãoOnline resources: Acesso | Acesso International Journal of Public Administration - IJPA 33, 14, p. 800-815Abstract: With governments around the world needing to attract talented professionals, this exploratory, cross-cultural research analyzes career values of 384 MPA and MPP students at major universities in the capitals of China, Malaysia and the United States. Malaysians and Americans structured 23 goals along dimensions that contrasted sharply to those of the Chinese. Moreover, Malaysians and Americans cared more about self-actualization and less about co-worker comradeship than did the Chinese. All three groups prioritized elements of altruism and affluence. Segmentation analysis uncovered six distinct subgroups (Acheivers, Altruistic Analysts, Administrators, Altruistic Affluents, Acquiescents, and Apathetics) with their distributions varying by country
With governments around the world needing to attract talented professionals, this exploratory, cross-cultural research analyzes career values of 384 MPA and MPP students at major universities in the capitals of China, Malaysia and the United States. Malaysians and Americans structured 23 goals along dimensions that contrasted sharply to those of the Chinese. Moreover, Malaysians and Americans cared more about self-actualization and less about co-worker comradeship than did the Chinese. All three groups prioritized elements of altruism and affluence. Segmentation analysis uncovered six distinct subgroups (Acheivers, Altruistic Analysts, Administrators, Altruistic Affluents, Acquiescents, and Apathetics) with their distributions varying by country
Volume 33
Number 14
Click on an image to view it in the image viewer
There are no comments for this item.