Sector Switching from a Business to a Government Job: Fast‐Track Career or Fast Track to Nowhere?

Bozeman, Barry; Ponomariov, Branco

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.01942.x

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“…However, studies show that a notable amount of sector switching takes place (Frederiksen and Westergaard-Nielsen, 2007;Su and Bozeman, 2009a). Yet, when it comes to why people switch sectors, we do not know why the public employees switch to the private sector as former studies focus on public to private (Bozeman and Ponomariov, 2009). Understanding sector switches can help us understand the differences between sectors and people's sector employment (Bozeman and Ponomariov, 2009).…”

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“…Sector switching has only received scant attention in the literature, though recently the issue has entered the research on public organizations in the public administration literature (Bozeman and Ponomariov, 2009;Su andBozeman, 2009a, 2009b). Sector switching is defined as when people move from the private to the public sector or vice versa (Bozeman and Ponomariov, 2009).…”

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“…Sector switching is defined as when people move from the private to the public sector or vice versa (Bozeman and Ponomariov, 2009). Studies on job choice and how this is explained by for example public service motivation are beginning to investigate the relationships between job choice and sector (Christensen and Wright, 2011;Wright and Christensen, 2010).…”

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“…This is especially so for employees with a higher education (OECD, 2007). Moreover, sector switching is of great relevance to our understanding of public and private differences (Bozeman and Ponomariov, 2009) which is an area with a lot of studies but little consensus on findings (Baarspul and Wilderom, 2011). Most studies on sector switching have focused on the motives and consequences of switching from the private to the public sector (Bozeman and Ponomariov, 2009;Su andBozeman, 2009a, 2009b).…”

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“…Moreover, sector switching is of great relevance to our understanding of public and private differences (Bozeman and Ponomariov, 2009) which is an area with a lot of studies but little consensus on findings (Baarspul and Wilderom, 2011). Most studies on sector switching have focused on the motives and consequences of switching from the private to the public sector (Bozeman and Ponomariov, 2009;Su andBozeman, 2009a, 2009b). In this paper we focus on how the motives of job shifters are related to public to private sector switch because we expect that employment in the public and private sector represents different opportunities and constraints for individual job shifters.…”

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Sector switching is interesting in relation to understanding how to get and keep people working in the public sector as well as to understand public and private differences. This paper focuses on why public employees leave public organizations to work in the private sector. We use a design studying higher educated Danish employees who recently worked in the state, comparing those who shift job to another public organization with those who switch to the private sector. We focus on different motives for job shifts which may influence sector switching such as salary, job security, organizational characteristics and public service motivation.

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Career research has focused on the changing structures of careers, mainly in the private sector. Recent literature on employment patterns in the public sector suggests that career structures are evolving, gradually moving away from their signature traditional structures to contemporary ones. However, empirical evidence of this change is scarce and inconclusive. This qualitative study examines the changes currently unfolding in the career structure of the civil service by eliciting the experiences and views of senior Foreign Offices (FOs) staff in four countries: 198 state ambassadors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, and Denmark were interviewed about their career trajectories. The data were analyzed using a thematic analysis framework. The findings revealed a gradual breakdown of the structures and policies that support traditional careers, and the emergence of new principles and practices that characterize contemporary careers. However, as they were captured midway through the process of change, all FOs display a combination of traditional and contemporary career structures at this point. The findings offer unique insights into the drivers of this evolution and highlight some of the consequences.

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Human capital inflow in nonprofits: Entry‐level employees’ sector shift

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Although recruitment and retention of qualified employees are some of the biggest challenges in the nonprofit sector, nonprofit organizations must maintain human capital inflow due to its significant impacts on organizational success. Through person‐organization value fit, this paper explores the factors that influence labor shifts from the public or for‐profit sector into the nonprofit sector in the South Korean context. Specifically, the effects on the likelihood of employees switching to the nonprofit sector from the perspective of eight job satisfaction measures and three education–job match measures are investigated. Two groups of employees (those whose career started in the for‐profit sector and those starting in the public sector) are compared. Results indicate that there is substantial variation between the two groups. In particular, intrinsic job satisfaction has completely different effects on those working in the for‐profit sector than on those working in the public sector regarding their likelihood of having experienced an intersectoral shift into nonprofits. The more public employees are satisfied with intrinsic job rewards, especially job reputation, the more likely they are to move to nonprofits. These results suggest that when employees in the public sector are satisfied with intrinsic rewards they tend to pursue greater intrinsic satisfaction in the nonprofit sector. This paper also reports that education–job match is only significant for those whose first job was in the for‐profit sector.

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Sector Switching from a Business to a Government Job: Fast‐Track Career or Fast Track to Nowhere?

Cited by 47 publications

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From Public to Private Sector: Motives and explanations for sector switching

From Public to Private Sector: Motives and explanations for sector switching

The dynamics of diplomatic careers: The shift from traditional to contemporary careers

Human capital inflow in nonprofits: Entry‐level employees’ sector shift

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