Need satisfactions of managerial level personnel in a government agency.

Abstract

This study compares the need satisfactions of managers in field work with the need satisfactions of similar managers in central office work with a government agency There was greater satisfaction among those in field work especially with respect to certain higher-level needs Also, a comparison was made of the need satisfactions of all respondents in the government agency with those of a similar group from private industry. The satisfaction of the government managers was less across all need items than the satisfaction of the private industry managers A perceptual halo effect created by the insecure conditions existing in the government agency at the time the study was conducted may explain this finding.

Nurse job satisfaction and retention: comparing public to private hospitals in Jordan

“…Nurses in private hospitals report higher rates of job satisfaction and higher intentions to retain their jobs than nurses in public hospitals; these results are supported in the literature (Paine et al. 1966, Rainey 1979, Solomon 1987).…”

“…Most nursing studies about job satisfaction and retention were conducted in a single type of hospital. Few studies were conducted to estimate the difference between public and private sectors; but these studies were not nursing‐related (Paine et al. 1966, Rainey 1979, Solomon 1987, Schneider & Vaught 1993).…”

Red-Tape and the Service Ethic

“…But its primary significance rests with the tendency to corroborate the results of several other studies and thus contributes to a growing body of evidence that the organizationally stimulated attitudes of career public servants are on the whole less favorable than those of similarly placed individuals in economic organizations. The attitudes on which differences have been reported include organizational commitment (Buchanan, 1974a) and several measures of intrinsic need satisfaction (Paine et al, 1966;Rhinehart et al, 1969). These studies collectively lend weight to the suspicion that the service ethic among public managers, as gauged by work and agencyrelated attitudes, may be more of an aspiration than a reality.…”

The effect of economic cycles on job satisfaction in a two-sector economy

“…Such situations exist, for example, in industries that are comprised of both a public and a private sector. The public and private sectors typically differ in job security, incentives structure, and remuneration mechanisms (Buchanan, 1974;Rainey et al, 1976;Paine et al, 1966;Porter and Mitchell, 1967;Rawls et al, 1975). While the private sector is typically characterized by performance-based incentive schemes and low job security, the public sector is typically characterized by low-powered incentives and high job security (see, for example, Roomkin and Weisbrod, 1999 The characteristics of the public sector can potentially lead to countercyclical effects over the course of a business cycle.…”