Dr. Samvet Kuril
Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University
Meet the Speaker
Samvet brings over twelve years of professional experience, including six years as a professor and six years of prior experience spanning academia and industry. He has held academic positions in both government and private institutions, contributing to teaching, research, and institutional development. A PhD graduate from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Samvet’s research centers on employee engagement, public sector motivation, supportive leadership behaviors, and the integration of artificial intelligence in organizational settings. His work pays particular attention to how public service motives interact with psychological resources like resilience and engagement to influence performance outcomes. More broadly, his research examines how employee attitudes and motivational drivers shape organizational effectiveness across public and private contexts. Drawing on an interdisciplinary foundation, he continues to explore how leadership, learning, public institutions, and organizational capacity collectively shape performance across diverse institutional environments.
Abstract
An individual’s decision to pursue a career in the public sector is likely to be influenced by a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. While the widely studied concept of Public Service Motivation (PSM) emphasizes altruistic and prosocial values, it does not fully capture the diverse motivations that may influence entry into, and performance within the public sector—particularly in developing country contexts where economic constraints, political dynamics, and cultural hierarchies are prominent. The present study addresses this limitation by conceptualizing and validating a novel instrument to measure Public Sector Motivation (PSecM) which encompasses both intrinsic and extrinsic dimensions of motivation specific to a public sector employment. Through three studies involving diverse samples from the Indian civil services, this research conceptualizes PSecM as a construct having three key dimensions: power to bring change, job security, and social respect, thereby highlighting that PSecM in India is driven by mixed motives, combining intrinsic aspirations for societal impact and extrinsic incentives tied to the unique characteristics of public sector jobs. Next, through a sequence of rigorous psychometric analysis, the study presents a valid measure of PSecM scale that has adequate psychometric properties as well as predictive validity. By providing a conceptual understanding of PSecM and developing a valid instrument to measure it, this study contributes to the broader discourse on public sector management and national development in resource-constrained environments.
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S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), founded in 1981 in Mumbai, is a premier postgraduate management institute that has been named by the Financial Times Global Rankings as one of India's top two business schools, by Business Today as one of the country's top five business schools, and by the Positive Impact Rating, a Swiss association, as one of the top five business schools in the world in terms of social impact.
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