| Abstract: | Compared the perceptions and satisfaction of 120 top managers from the private sector and 120 from the public sector in Israeli organizations. All Ss (median age 44 yrs) completed a job characteristics questionnaire and an organizational climate questionnaire. It was hypothesized that performance-based rewards and policies that promote efficiency would be significantly more prevalent in private-sector organizations and that higher levels of satisfaction would be expressed by managers in the private sector. Two-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs), consisting of private vs public and production vs service organizations, were performed. Results show significant main effects for sector of ownership and provide strong support for the hypotheses. Interaction effects in specific scales were also in the hypothesized direction, revealing that the private-sector/public-sector differences were further amplified in service organizations. The relation of the present findings to those of comparable studies in the US is discussed. (56 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
