유학사상과 공공봉사동기와의 관계

The term “public service motivation” (PSM) was first used as a way to express the specific motivation associated with public service. As PSM research grows qualitatively and quantitatively in Europe and Asia as well as in the United States, PSM is thought of an element of human mind, as an individual’s orientation to delivering services to people with a purpose to do good for others and society, no matter what kind of job an individual has.
As we understand that the ideas of Plato and Aristotle laid the foundations for the public service and PSM in the Western countries, it is also possible to suppose Confucianism as a philosophy prescribing PSM. This study analyzes how Confucianism is linked to PSM, and shows that Confucianism converges with the conceptual dimensions of PSM.