Composite Index of Local Government Employees Satisfaction

Abstract

The paper proposes a structure of a composite Index of Local Government Employees Satisfaction (ESI) in Poland. The index provides a based on four sub-indices synthetic assessment of the level of employee satisfaction with the employment in local government offices. The sub-indices have been constructed using an exploratory factor analysis with the VARIMAX one. The ESI and sub-indices values have been normalized in the range of [0–100%], wherein higher ESI values indicate higher employee satisfaction. The proposed approach is used to assess the level of employee satisfaction with the employment in some local government units in the West Pomerania province. The analysis was based on the results of the measurements made in 2009–2010 by comparing the results of two groups of employees separated on the basis of a criterion of their place of employment.

Principal Component Weighted Index for Wastewater Quality Monitoring

“…The normalization was performed by dividing the values of each parameter by its maximal one. The relative weights ranged from 1 to 4 according to their importance for an aquatic system, which means that they are subjective: P i = 4 for TSS; P i = 3 for NH 4 + , BOD, and COD; P i = 2 for TDS, TN, NO 3 − , and NO 2 − ; P i = 1 for TP, PO 4 3− , and pH. They were adopted from several papers dealing with assessment of surface waters [23,27,30].…”

“…In spite of this, various simple and easy-to-use composite indexes have been utilized to describe complex technical and scientific problems. For instance, there are social composite indexes [2,3], economic and well-being indexes [4,5], medical indexes [6,7], soil quality indexes [8,9], environmental quality [10][11][12], air quality indexes [13,14] and agriculture indexes [15], as well as water quality indexes [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] and so forth.…”