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Public employees' preferences and the size of the public sector
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1990Abstract This paper examines the circumstances under which public employees will regard public sector expansion as welfare-improving. A model is proposed which incorporates a number of features not previously included in analyses of public sector growth, including interactions between private and public production in the form of government ...
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Portal for Employees in the Public Sector
2018The need to reduce public spending has led Portugal to make administrative reforms. To that end, it called on the so-called e-government, using ICT as a mechanism to increase the quality and transparency of public services while lowering costs and operationalizing new public policies.
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Who becomes a public sector employee?
International Journal of Manpower, 2017Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which individual characteristics are related to the decision to become a public sector employee using twin study data matched with register-based, individual-level panel data for the 1991-2009 period.
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IT Employee Job Satisfaction in the Public Sector
International Journal of Public Administration, 2009Abstract Survey questionnaires were sent to state government IT employees in the United States to analyze how job characteristics, work environment, pay satisfaction, and advancement opportunities influence IT employee job satisfaction. The study results showed that job clarity, effective communications with management, a participatory management ...
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Affective commitment in the public sector
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future, 2006To improve our understanding of individual motivations to remain employed in governmental agencies this study focuses on a specific segment of a state government agency workforce. Information technology (IT) employees possess skills that transfer easily to other sectors, which make them an important group when examining factors that influence the ...
Margaret F. Reid +3 more
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Public Sector Downsizing and Employee Trust
International Journal of Public Administration, 2007Abstract Downsizing in the public sector is examined in this article using the cutback management movement of the 1970s and the reinventing government reform of the 1990s. In these movements, reduction-in-force techniques, cutback management, privatization, and contracting out have reduced the public sector workforce and the level of commitment to the ...
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Organizational commitment among Dutch public sector employees
International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2006Organizational commitment has become a much researched subject over the past three decades. This article focuses on the relatively understudied public sector. On the basis of a large public-sector-wide survey, organizational commitment and its antecedents are assessed, including the contribution made by HRM practices.
Steijn, B., Leisink, P.L.M.
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Empirical study of public sector employee loyalty and satisfaction
Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2011PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the factors which determine the level of public employees' job satisfaction and as result help to have effective and efficient management system in the public sector, in developing countries such as Turkey.Design/methodology/approachBased on theoretical considerations, a model was proposed linking the ...
Ali Türkyilmaz +3 more
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Employee welfare and restructuring in the public sector: Evidence from Poland and Serbia
European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011Labour in Central-Eastern Europe is widely regarded as a uniformly weak actor. We challenge this view, and explore the conditions under which CEE labour can play an active role in the welfare reform process. We draw on evidence from education and health care in Poland and Serbia, and show that public sector unions have largely retained their ability to
Bernaciak, Magdalena +2 more
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Pay of Employees in the Public and Private Sector
National Institute Economic Review, 1981This article sets out a general framework within which the sectoral distribution of pay can be examined. The main evidence on income from employment is then analysed with a view to answering questions about overall changes in total pay bills, and gross earnings of individuals in the public and private sectors.
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