From Public to Private Sector: Motives and Explanations for Sector Switching

TY - JOUR

T1 - From Public to Private Sector: Motives and Explanations for Sector Switching

AU - Hansen, Jesper Rosenberg

N1 - Campus adgang til artiklen / Campus access to the article

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Sector switching

KW - Job shift

KW - Public and private differences

U2 - 10.1080/14719037.2012.743575

DO - 10.1080/14719037.2012.743575

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1471-9037

VL - 16

SP - 590

EP - 607

JO - Public Management Review

JF - Public Management Review

IS - 4

ER -