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Author: Steel, Brent S.
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Steel, Brent S. |
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Job Satisfaction Bureaucrat 20,3 (Fall 1991): 57-59 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Bureaucrat, Inc. Keyword(s): Job Satisfaction; Private Sector; Public Sector Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the past decade, a number of observers have claimed that public sector employees manifest low levels of job satisfaction and thus experience workplace alienation. Some have argued that red tape and the lack of management flexibility have led to unmotivated and dissatisfied employees. Data from the NLSY were used to investigate the level of job satisfaction evident among young public and private sector employees. Employees in the public sector were found to have higher levels of job satisfaction when compared with their private sector counterparts. In addition, it is evident that the public sector has been successful in attracting and keeping qualified and highly motivated young employees when compared with the private sector. The public sector employees in this study had higher levels of education, higher work aspirations, and longer terms of employment than a comparable sample of private sector employees. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Steel, Brent S. "Job Satisfaction." Bureaucrat 20,3 (Fall 1991): 57-59.
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Steel, Brent S. Warner, Rebecca L. |
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Job Satisfaction Among Early Labor Force Participants: Unexpected Outcomes in Public and Private Sector Comparisons Review of Public Personnel Administration 10,3 (Summer 1990): 4-22 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute of Public Affairs, University of South Carolina Keyword(s): Job Satisfaction; Private Sector; Public Sector A systematic investigation is presented of the level of job satisfaction among a national cross-section of early labor force participants in the public and private employment sectors in the late 1980s. The NLSY was the source of the data. Although conventional wisdom has suggested that there is a crisis in the level of job satisfaction among public sector employees due to extensive bureaucrat bashing and working in overly rigid organizations, the findings suggest that public sector employees manifest significantly higher levels of job satisfaction than their private sector counterparts. After controlling for a number of background, personal, and situational factors, the higher level of public sector job satisfaction remains. It is evident from the analyses that the public sector has been successful in attracting and keeping qualified and highly motivated young employees. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Bibliography Citation
Steel, Brent S. and Rebecca L. Warner. "Job Satisfaction Among Early Labor Force Participants: Unexpected Outcomes in Public and Private Sector Comparisons." Review of Public Personnel Administration 10,3 (Summer 1990): 4-22.
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