This is an exploratory study that examines federal employee's satisfaction with work-life balance or family-friendly policies. We rely on intersectionality as a theoretical framework to examine how gender, race, and class interact in the formation of their views. Drawing from the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, we examine how minority women compare with non-minority women regarding their perception of fairness of programs and policies aimed at the promotion of work-life balance. This topic is significant because satisfaction and participation in work-life balance programs can have implications for overall job performance and satisfaction. Our findings suggest that race, education, and proximity to retirement all play a role in work-life balance (familyfriendly) policy satisfaction.
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) rely on multiple funding sources to meet organizational needs; and, heavy reliance on any one revenue source can limit an NPO’s ability to allocate funding. As such, in this study, we examine the association between funding source and spending behavior in a national sample of NPOs from 2008 to 2012. Our sample consists of 51,812 observations from 16,035 unique NPOs. Using Tobit maximum likelihood estimation, we find that NPOs that rely on, both, restricted and nonrestricted revenue sources are more limited in their ability to spend on administrative needs, whereas donation income restricts personnel spending of compensation. Revenue diversification, though, can help NPOs overcome this limitation and can provide NPOs with greater spending flexibility. Our findings also show, however, that these results differ for NPO hospitals and universities.
This study examines gender dimensions of managerial values at the local level of government. We test for alternative explanations, in particular whether the organization and profession are socializing forces with similar or larger influence on managerial values. The data for this study come from Phase IV of the National Administrative Studies Project (NASP IV). The dataset includes the U.S. senior local government managers in communities with populations over 50,000. We expect the values of men and women managers to differ even when we account for professional and organizational forces. Preliminary findings support this hypothesis. Women not only differed from men on the values of equity, long-term outlook, sense of community, and representation, but also differed with respect to the values of efficiency, effectiveness, and expertise. We discuss these findings and their implications.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which public service motivation (PSM) can be explained by the big five personality factors.
Design/methodology/approach
Original data are gathered from two online surveys of public service professionals from across the USA. The two surveys employ the same measures of personality traits but different measures of PSM. This was done to test the generalizability of the findings across different operationalization of PSM.
Findings
The big five personality factors explain a large share of the variance in PSM, above and beyond basic demographic factors (sex, age and race). Agreeableness has the most consistent association with PSM. Extroversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience also display positive associations with at least some measures and dimensions of PSM.
Research limitations/implications
The two surveys involved somewhat small, non-probability samples of public service professionals. Additional research is needed to confirm the generalizability of these findings.
Originality/value
This study contributes to both the theoretical and empirical understanding of the origins of PSM.
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