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Author: Durst, Samantha L.
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Desantis, Victor S. Durst, Samantha L. |
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Comparing Job Satisfaction Among Public- and Private-Sector Employees American Review of Public Administration 26,3 (September 1996): 327-343. Also: http://arp.sagepub.com/content/26/3/327.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Job Satisfaction; Public Sector Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the past several decades a number of empirical studies have demonstrated that job-satisfaction levels vary widely in the American labor force. Renewed interest in increasing performance levels in government should interest public administrators in identifying factors that foster worker satisfaction. A paper uses analyses of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY) to compare job-satisfaction levels among public- and private-sector employees. Using this survey allows the paper to examine the actual work experiences, personal characteristics, and job-satisfaction levels of a selected set of public and private workers. If the factors that contribute to job satisfaction differ for public- and private-sector employees, as the results suggest they do, then such an analysis is long overdue. Copyright American Review of Public Administration Inc., 1996. Full text online. Photocopy available from ABI/INFORM. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 1995, Chicago, IL. |
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Desantis, Victor S. and Samantha L. Durst. "Comparing Job Satisfaction Among Public- and Private-Sector Employees." American Review of Public Administration 26,3 (September 1996): 327-343.
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Desantis, Victor S. Durst, Samantha L. |
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction Among Federal, State, and Local Government Employees State and Local Government Review 29,1 (Winter 1997): 7-16 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Carl Vinson Institute of Government Keyword(s): Job Satisfaction Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article finds support for the argument that the level of government at which an employee works influences that employee's job satisfaction. The authors find that public employees at federal, state, and local levels express varying degrees of job satisfaction. Moreover, the factors that contribute to job satisfaction for local employees are different than those for state or federal employees. The results highlight the ways in which public administrators at each level of government may be able to enhance job satisfaction in the workplace. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Southeastern Conference on Public Administration in Savannah, Georgia, October 1995. |
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Bibliography Citation
Desantis, Victor S. and Samantha L. Durst. "Determinants of Job Satisfaction Among Federal, State, and Local Government Employees." State and Local Government Review 29,1 (Winter 1997): 7-16.
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