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ABSTRACT
Several studies report that managerial networking helps improve public service provision, so understanding and predicting why some public managers engage more in networking than others is critical. Psychological antecedents of managerial networking have not been examined previously, though from a personnel management perspective, identifying predispositions and motivations that drive networking is of utmost interest. Therefore, our study investigates the influences of personality traits and public service motivation (PSM) on managerial networking. Survey data from 207 high-ranking public managers reveal that PSM mediates the influence of extraversion, conscientiousness and agreeableness on networking.
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Notes
1. According to Schott et al. (2019), differs PSM from these concepts in that it is rather ‘directed at […] the society at large and has a rather long-term temporal focus’ (p. 1203).
2. Ethics approval for this study was obtained from the ethical committee of the authors‘ university.
3. Noting criticisms of PLS for lacking tests of overall model fit (Anderson and Gerbing 1988), we conducted a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in SPSS AMOS 28. The CFA yielded a χ2/df ratio of 1.745, CFI value of .896, SRMR of .065, and RMSEA of .060 These fit statistics imply adequate global fit of the measurement model.