The Concept of a Self-Induced Linked Discouraging at Work – The Difference of Employees in the Public and Private Sectors
Keywords:
dimensions of self-induced demotivation, generalization, multivariate analysis of varianceAbstract
The conventional wisdom is that there are some differences in labor motivation depending on employment in the government or the public sector in relation to the private sector. The aim of this study was to examine whether the employees of different gender, age levels of education, a sector in which they work, differ in a preliminary theoretical concept of self-induced concatenated demotivation. For this purpose, we have constructed a questionnaire to measure the concept. We examined the "snowball" sample of 196 subjects, of all ages and levels of education, who are working in the public / government and private sectors. Using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), we analyzed the differences between the dimension of demotivation and the aforementioned set of independent variables. It turned out that respondents differ in the level of education and age group, but not in relation to gender and type of employment (employment in the state / public versus private sector). Also, we found differences in relation to the interaction between the variables: age and level of education and age, occupational category and gender. In general, there were statistically significant differences (with respect to the aforementioned variables and two interactions) in one dimension of the concept of self-induced concatenated demotivation: pessimism / rationalization. Greater self-induced disincentives show the oldest employees with lower educational levels. In future research, researchers should use a more representative sample of respondents and a better grounded theoretical concept.
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