The Moderating Effects of Organizational Publicness on Determinants of the U.S. Federal Employee’s Job Satisfaction

Julius A. Nukpezah, P. Edward French, Tamara Dimitrijevska-Markoski and Victor O. Flomo
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Julius A. Nukpezah: Mississippi State University
P. Edward French: Mississippi State University
Tamara Dimitrijevska-Markoski: Mississippi State University
Victor O. Flomo: Mississippi State University

Public Organization Review, 2022, vol. 22, issue 4, No 1, 883-901

Abstract: Abstract This study draws on the organizational publicness scholarship to propose that although both executive departments and independent agencies collectively are part of the federal bureaucracy, executive departments have higher organizational publicness that affects their organizational processes and employee’s job satisfaction. Analyses of federal employee viewpoint survey indicate that executive departments directly affect job satisfaction and moderate work unit quality, supervisor quality, and leadership quality's effect on job satisfaction. Public organizations' effects on job satisfaction are more nuanced than the existing scholarship suggests. Where constitutional norms allow, public organizations should promote the independent powers of work units' leaders.

Keywords: Organizational publicness; Job satisfaction; Federal employees; Executive department; Independent agencies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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