The Impact of External and Internal Incentives on Work Engagement: Evidence from China

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the Influence Mechanism and Promotion Strategies of Base Official, and to explore the Role of Organizational Identity in this Path. Based on the survey and interview of 350 grass-roots civil servants from China, this paper analyses the relationship among internal and external incentive mechanism, organizational identity and work engagement. The research results show that: the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation have a significant positive impact on work engagement, and the positive influence of intrinsic motive is greater than extrinsic motivation. Both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations have positive influence on organizational identification, And in the process of influence, the external incentive has a certain "crowding effect" on the internal incentive. Organizational identification plays a mediating role between extrinsic motivation and work engagement, but the mediating effect of organizational identification on intrinsic motivation and work engagement is not significant. The research results have certain reference value for improving the work input of grass-roots civil servants.