Mission matters. ―Again, this suggests that the basic framework provided by goal
theory can not only incorporate but also support the fundamental assumption of public
service motivation: that the intrinsic rewards provided by the nature or function of the
organization may be more important to public sector employees than — or
compensate for the limited availability of — performance-related extrinsic rewards.‖
(Wright, 2007, p. 60). This result is interesting because it can explain the fact that the
civil servants that seem to be the less positively influenced by PRP are physicians and
healthcare employees.