Different Preferences or Opposite Directions? Reforms and Job Satisfaction at Public and Private Universities in Spain

Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri, Juan José Mijangos-Del-Campo, Xabier González-Laskibar and Eneritz Onaindia-Gerrikabeitia
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Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48008 Bilbao, Spain
Juan José Mijangos-Del-Campo: Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48008 Bilbao, Spain
Xabier González-Laskibar: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48008 Bilbao, Spain
Eneritz Onaindia-Gerrikabeitia: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 20600 Eibar, Spain

Administrative Sciences, 2022, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: Recent decades have witnessed how both in Spain and elsewhere, legal reforms have helped to transform the management and governance of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). These transformations have changed the conditions in which academics work, with a knock-on effect on their job satisfaction. Although these legal developments in Spain have basically been the same for both the public and private sectors in Higher Education, the evidence gathered in this article shows that the rate of cases of loss of job satisfaction is higher in public institutions than in private ones. The article provides an initial explanation for this situation, whereby the legal reforms have been met with different organisational solutions in these two kinds of institutions.

Keywords: higher education; reforms; public universities; private; job satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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