The Impact of Socioeconomic, Organizational and Individual Factors on Government Organizational Performance: Evidence from China

The purpose of this study is to examine several key elements of organizational performance in the public sector empirically. By exploring the effects of socioeconomic, organizational as well as individual factors based on responses from a primary survey, the authors find that those governmental organizations with more public orientation, more employee orientation, clearer goals, less procedure constraints are more effective than their counterparts. Governmental organizations located in the area of higher new economic index usually have higher levels of performance than those lower. Those employees with higher levels of public service motivation tend to report higher organizational performance perception than those less. The study suggests that strengthening the culture of public interest, improving organizational management, and enhancing employees' public service motivation may be the efficient ways to improve the performance.