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Relevance of MOOCs for training of public sector employees

2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), 2015
A massive open online course (MOOC) is a type of online course that can be taken for a huge number of participants. Originally, MOOCs scope was to provide introductory university level courses to students worldwide. Currently, the MOOC model is expanding is scope to training in both private and public sectors.
Sandra Sanchez-Gordon   +1 more
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Are Public-Sector Employees 'Overpaid' Relative to Private Sector Employees? An Overview of the Studies

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The laws eliminating or severely restricting the collective bargaining rights of public-sector unions passed since 2011 are one of the most important developments in both workplace law and politics in recent memory. Among other things, public-sector workers now comprise more than half of all union members in the U.S., and such unions are a major ...
Joseph E. Slater, Elijah A. Welenc
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The Motivation of Public Sector Employees

Administration & Society, 2011
This article argues that psychological factors determine the content of people’s work motivations but that social factors determine their relative importance. The author identified six universal human needs and corresponding rewards, orientations to work, organizational control methods, and types of involvement.
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Employees’ BYOD Security Policy Compliance in the Public Sector

Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2023
The proliferation of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy has instigated a widespread change across organizations. However, employees’ compliance toward BYOD security policy remains a challenge. Building on the organizational control, security culture, and social cognitive theory, a research framework for analyzing BYOD security policy compliance ...
Rathika Palanisamy   +2 more
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Are public sector employees overcompensated? [PDF]

open access: possible, 2012
Alexander Danzer and Peter Dolton use the concept of 'total reward' to assess whether public sector pay and pensions are too high relative to the private sector.
Danzer, Alexander M., Dolton, Peter J.
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Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations

European Journal of Political Economy, 2022
Theory suggests that employee trust is key to productivity in organizations, but empirical evidence documenting links between trust and constraints on performance is scarce. This paper analyzes self-collected data on public sector employees from eighteen Latin American countries and finds that individual-level trust is relevant to three types of ...
Philip Keefer, Razvan Vlaicu
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Public employees and public sector reform implementation

Public Choice, 2011
Conventional wisdom says that reforms that aim at improving the productivity of the public sector face opposition from public sector employees, and for this reason, tend to be poorly implemented. These claims are not backed by much hard evidence. This paper seeks to fill some of that gap by investigating why an educational reform containing explicit ...
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