Samanburður á upplifun starfsmanna einkarekinna fyrirtækja og starfsmanna hins opinbera af vinnustað og starfi

Abstract

The current study contributes to the scarce, but growing literature on the comparison between public and private sector employees, by comparing both groups' perceptions of organizational support, organizational justice, the effectiveness of HRM, job satisfaction, work-family conflict, work-family enrichment, organizational citizenship behavior and organizational commitment. A total of 3083 employees (51% female and 57% public sector) from 59 organizations (32 public sector) responded to an electronic survey. Independent samples t-tests and multiple regression analyses showed that private sector employees perceived organizational support to be stronger and procedures to be more just in their organizations than public sector employees. They also reported more organizational citizenship behavior, less work-family conflict and more work-family enrichment. Finally, private sector employees are more committed toward their organizations, perceive HR effectiveness to be greater and reported more optimism than public sector employees. With regard to practical significance, the effect size (Cohen's d) of the differences between the two groups ranged from being low (organizational commitment, d=0,06), to moderately large (effectiveness of HRM, d=0,60).