Work satisfaction has become an important organizational issue in recent years. However, there has been a failure in the organization research to examine the effects of publicness on work satisfaction. This study tests the effects of publicness on wor...
Work satisfaction has become an important organizational issue in recent years. However, there has been a failure in the organization research to examine the effects of publicness on work satisfaction. This study tests the effects of publicness on work satisfaction by comparing the responses of public, quasi-public, and private sector employees to the study variables. In addition, a multiple of mission approach is used to analyze the differences in the relative importance of job satisfaction, pay satisfaction, promotion satisfaction, work fatigue, perceived social recognition, individual freedom in the workplace, and the decision making structure. Perceived promotion satisfaction and level of work fatigue had the largest effects on the opinions of public and quasi-public sector employees regarding work satisfaction. However, perceived decentralization of the decision making structure had little influence on work satisfaction in the public sector.