scholarly journals Sector Differences in the Public Service Motivation–Job Satisfaction Relationship: Exploring the Role of Organizational Characteristics

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Mette Kjeldsen ◽  
Jesper Rosenberg Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
Organizational Goal ◽  
The Public ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
Goal Specificity ◽  
Satisfaction Relationship

Public service motivation (PSM) has a documented, positive effect on job satisfaction—especially in the public sector. However, organizational characteristics such as red tape, hierarchical authority, and the absence of organizational goal specificity, which are often more present in public sector organizations, may have negative influences on the PSM–job satisfaction relationship. This study explores the impact of these organizational characteristics on sector differences in the PSM–job satisfaction relationship in a “hard case” setting. Using survey data with low-level, white-collar employees, we confirm a positive PSM–job satisfaction association in the public sector compared with the private sector, where we see a negative association. Furthermore, perceived red tape and the absence of organizational goal specificity have negative influences on job satisfaction; nevertheless, sector differences remain in the PSM–job satisfaction relationship when controlled for these organizational characteristics. This suggests that public or private sector status is more important for the PSM–job satisfaction relationship than other organizational characteristics.

MPA Graduates and the Dilemma of Job Satisfaction: Does Crossing the Sector Line Make a Difference

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barrie E. Blunt ◽  
Kris Anne Spring
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
State Regional

This study examines levels of job satisfaction for MPA graduates employed in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Findings are based on a survey and indicate that MPA graduates derive greater satisfaction with pay and promotion opportunities in the private sector than in the public or non-profit sectors. No significant differences were noted between the sectors with regard to work satisfaction or satisfaction with supervisor or co-workers. Further, no differences in levels of satisfaction were noted between four categories of public sector employment; federal, state, regional, or local.

Innovative Behavior in Public Sector Services Public Service Motivation and Private Sector Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Jonghwan Eun
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Innovative Behavior ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual

The demand for innovation in public organizations is increasing. In this study, I explore factors that contribute to the innovative behavior of civil servants at the individual level. The theoretical distinction between public and private organizations has long been a subject of debate, and certain characteristics of innovation in public organizations mimic innovation in the private sector, even though the purpose of innovation in public organizations is to secure public goods. In order to examine the innovative behavior of public employees who face such contradictory circumstances, I parameterized the characteristics of each sector, using whether or not the employee had worked in the private sector prior to entering the public service as the characteristic for the private sector and the effect of public service motivation on innovative behavior as the characteristic for the public sector and found that at the individual level, the two are not mutually exclusive.

Exploring Under-Representation of Young Emirati Adults in the UAE Private Sector by Examining Emirati Job Satisfaction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia Daleure ◽  
Zain Al Shareef
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rating Factor ◽  
Employment Sectors ◽  
The Military

This study examined Emirati job satisfaction using an online survey to understand Emirati under-employment in the private sector. To date, double-digit Emirati youth unemployment has plagued the UAE even though it is a regional economic leader whose private sector has the potential to create tens of thousands of new jobs each year. The saturated public sector is so vastly preferred by Emiratis that many of them avoid working in the private sector despite abundant opportunities there, even when prolonged unemployment is a consequence. More than 1,000 employed Emirati participants rated 14 job satisfaction criteria using an online survey. Data were analyzed using correlation and regression analysis, and mean tables were constructed to examine mean ratings of satisfaction criteria among demographic factors including employment sectors. The study found that job satisfaction was higher in the public and semi- government sectors than in the private sector for factors relating to compensation, culturally friendly working conditions, and flexibility to study and/or take care of family responsibilities. Only one rating factor—opportunities for advancement—was significantly higher in the private sector than in the public or semi-government sectors. Overall job satisfaction was high even in dangerous and physically demanding public sector jobs, such as those related to off-shore oil rigs, the military, and the police. لقد قامت هذه الدراسة بدراسة الرضا الوظيفي الإماراتي عن طريق إستخدام إستبيان إلكتروني لفهم أسباب نقص العمالة الإماراتية في القطاع الخاص

scholarly journals Workplace pensions and remuneration in the public and private sectors in the UK

2016 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. R30-R37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Cribb ◽  
Carl Emmerson
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Defined Benefit ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Reforms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Workplace Pensions ◽  
Defined Benefit Pensions

We estimate the changing value of workplace pensions in the UK and incorporate their value into an estimate of the public sector pay differential. Falling pension membership in the private sector and growing value of public service pensions led to a significant increase in the estimated public sector pay differential from 1997 to 2009, even though headline pay grew faster in the private sector. From 2009 to 2012, although pay grew faster in the public sector, reforms to public service defined benefit pensions, particularly indexation to the CPI rather than RPI, significantly reduced the public pay differential.

scholarly journals Sustaining Honesty in Public Service: The Role of Selection

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 96-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Barfort ◽  
Nikolaj A. Harmon ◽  
Frederik Hjorth ◽  
Asmus Leth Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Selection Pattern ◽  
Selection Of

We study the role of self-selection into public service in sustaining honesty in the public sector. Focusing on the world’s least corrupt country, Denmark, we use a survey experiment to document strong self-selection of more honest individuals into public service. This result differs sharply from existing findings from more corrupt settings. Differences in pro-social versus pecuniary motivation appear central to the observed selection pattern. Dishonest individuals are more pecuniarily motivated and self-select out of public service into higher-paying private sector jobs. Accordingly, we find that increasing public sector wages would attract more dishonest candidates to public service in Denmark. (JEL D73, H83, J31, J45)

ETIKA PENGGUNAAN KOMPUTER DI TEMPAT KERJA (STUDI KASUS DI INDONESIA)

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dety Nurfadilah
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Computer Use ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Computer Usage ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public

This research seeks to understand the employee's perception as well as to investigate personal characteristics which can influence the employee's attitude towards computer use ethics at the workplace. The personal characteristics that are being discussed here are gender, job satisfaction, religious belief and position in the organization. The research design involved the collection of in-depth and semi-structured interviews from six people in the private sector and four people in the public sector. From the total of 10 respondents, there were five males and five females. The result found that computer use ethics is important in the organization modern and must be addressed by employers tactfully. Respondents also agreed that position in organization and religious belief have the biggest impact in guiding and influence employees towards ethical computer usage at work.

Analysis of Public Servants' Working in Municipality Administration Motivation Research

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-140
Author(s):  
Jolanta Palidauskaitė ◽  
Aušra Vaisvalavičiutė
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Great Responsibility

The aim of the article is to reveal the results of research of Lithuanian public servants motivation, which was conducted in early 2010 as an integral part of public servants motivation research conducted in 12 countries. The results of the research revealed, that a larger part of respondents were minded to participate in public life, sympathized to others and were prepared to sacrifice for them and welfare of the society. Not all respondents were certain, that the main purpose of their activity was serving for the good of the society. Goodwill, sympathy, a wish to help needy people, aspiration for justice were not strange to respondents, but they were not ready to suffer individual losses for this. Younger respondents and those whose work experience in public service was short, were less ready to compassionate others or to sacrifice for them. Although new methods and means (absorbed form the private sector) are applied in the public sector, the great responsibility, the duty to care for welfare of all society and public interest cannot be forgotten. These factors must be taken into account in the processes of public servants training and their socialization at work place.http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.10.1.234

FACILITATING PUBLIC SECTOR CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROCESS: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 275-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAUDINE KEARNEY ◽  
ROBERT HISRICH ◽  
FRANK ROCHE
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Organization ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Public Sector Entrepreneurship

The research to date in the literature has not provided a consensus on the nature of public entrepreneurship. Many authors relate the concept of entrepreneurship to only the private sector and dismiss the idea of public sector entrepreneurship. Others argue that the introduction of entrepreneurship into the public sector is inimical to its basic goals, concept and values. This paper proposes a conceptual model that explains the public sector corporate entrepreneurial process based on a review of past theoretical and empirical research. To date, very little research exists which attempts to establish a theoretical framework or model that illustrates the various components, including environmental and organizational characteristics, that effect the corporate entrepreneurship process within the public sector. The model is intended to depict key corporate entrepreneurial dimensions that relate to entrepreneurial behavior within the public sector organization. The proposed model delineates the antecedents and consequences of corporate entrepreneurship within the public sector.

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