Private Sector Imprinting: An Examination of the Impacts of Private Sector Job Experience on Public Manager's Work Attitudes

Boardman, Craig; Bozeman, Barry; Ponomariov, Branco

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.02110.x

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“…This suggests that previous job or sector experience shape the attitudes of employees toward work and their communities. Boardman et al (2010) also found previous work experience has an impact on job satisfaction and job involvement for individuals who switched from the private to the public sector. According to them, individuals who previously worked in the private sector are more involved in their jobs than those who have no private sector experience.…”

Section: Previous Sector Job Experiencesmentioning

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The new public service? Empirical research on job choice motivation in the nonprofit sector

Word

Park

2015

Personnel Review

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The new public service? Empirical research on job choice motivation in the nonprofit sector Jessica Word Sung Min Park Article information:To cite this document: Jessica Word Sung Min Park , (2015),"The new public service? Empirical research on job choice motivation in the nonprofit sector", Personnel Review, Vol. 44 Iss 1 pp. 91 -118 Permanent link to this document: http://dx. (2015),"Electronic monitoring and surveillance in the workplace: The effects on trust in management, and the moderating role of occupational type", If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing the decision of managers to work in the nonprofit sector and how these choices are shaped by intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Additionally, this research examines the impact of job choice motivation on social, community and professional outcomes and the unique characteristics of managers in the nonprofit sector. Design/methodology/approach -This research employed data from the National Administrative Studies Project (NASP-III) survey, which measured the mid-and upper-level managers working in nonprofit organizations in Illinois and Georgia. The survey measured the manager's perceptions of various organizational issues, including work motivation, mentoring and communication, career histories, hiring practices, and organizational cultures and structures. The data were then analyzed using a hierarchical regression model. Findings -The findings of this research support the idea that intrinsic motivation is an important aspect of job choice motivation for individuals in the nonprofit workforce. In addition, the findings suggest other characteristics, including policies that enhance work life balance (WLB), advancement, and job security, are important to understand the job choice motivations of nonprofit managers. This research also found not all types of nonprofit agencies attract similarly motivated individuals, or lead to equivalent community outcomes.Research limitations/implications -The organizations represented in the NASP III sample included more membership and professional associations than the overall nonprofit sector. This over representation partially limits the generalizabilit...

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Section: Previous Sector Job Experiencesmentioning

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The new public service? Empirical research on job choice motivation in the nonprofit sector

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2015

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“…Nonprofits represent the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy (Wing, Pollak, and Blackwood 2008), and these organizations continue to take on a larger role in delivering services in the United States. Moreover, as more managers engage in sector switching (Boardman, Bozeman, and Ponomariov 2010;Feeney 2008), the context of the work environment might play an increasingly important role in attracting and retaining talent over the longer term.…”

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Factors Attracting Individuals to Nonprofit Management over Public and Private Sector Management

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Feeney

2013

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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“…Studies in applied and occupational psychology suggest that transitioning to a job that expects roles and behaviors that are different from prior work experiences can affect attitudes toward one’s current job (Louis 1980; West and Rushton 1989). Past career experiences have been shown to play a role in the formation of both positive and negative attitudes and perceptions (Petty and Krosnick 1995; Songer‐Nocks 1976), including the work attitudes of public managers (Boardman, Bozeman, and Ponomariov 2010). Studies of workplace socialization additionally have suggested that work attitudes and perceptions are, in part, a function of the length of tenure in past jobs (Reichers, Wanous, and Steele 1994).…”

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Organizational Pathology Compared to What? Impacts of Job Characteristics and Career Trajectory on Perceptions of Organizational Red Tape

Ponomariov

Boardman

2011

Public Administration Review

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Early studies of organizational red tape emphasized that worker perceptions of organizational rules and procedures are dependent on workers' frames of reference. However, most prior studies do not account suffi ciently for how and why these reference points vary across employees, even if they work within the same or similar organizational contexts. While the eff ects of contemporaneous employee attitudes on perceptions of red tape have been considered in prior analyses, how do perceptions of organizational rules and procedures as red tape relate to workers' prior career trajectories and occupational contexts? Variable norms and expectations across organizations as well as across the public and private sectors may produce diff erent attitudes toward rules and procedures. Of equal import, current occupational characteristics are relatively unexamined in studies of worker perceptions of red tape. Using a survey of state level public managers, this paper examines how employees' perceptions of red tape are mediated by their prior career trajectories and experiences, as well as by their occupational context. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Private Sector Imprinting: An Examination of the Impacts of Private Sector Job Experience on Public Manager's Work Attitudes

Cited by 44 publications

References 72 publications

The new public service? Empirical research on job choice motivation in the nonprofit sector

The new public service? Empirical research on job choice motivation in the nonprofit sector

Factors Attracting Individuals to Nonprofit Management over Public and Private Sector Management

Organizational Pathology Compared to What? Impacts of Job Characteristics and Career Trajectory on Perceptions of Organizational Red Tape

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