ABSTRACT
Governments depend upon employing high quality personnel to make and implement their decisions. Individuals who choose to go into politics, or the public bureaucracy, may do so out of a sense of duty, or because they believe the work will be interesting, or because they are able to work out their own psychological problems (see Duvillier, Genard and Piraux 2003; also Lasswell 1930). Or they may choose to work for the public sector because the rewards they are offered are at least adequate for their needs and match their preferences concerning the types of career and the mixture of rewards they would like to have.
