Sector Switching from a Business to a Government Job: Fast-Track Career or Fast Track to Nowhere?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bozeman, Barry; Ponomariov, Branco
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.01942.x
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 77-91
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT; EMPLOYEE TURNOVER; satisfaction; work; metaanalysis; PERSPECTIVE; determinants; mobility; queues

摘要

This paper examines the career consequences for public managers of having had full-time private sector work experience. We find positive career outcomes for public managers with private sector experience: Individuals with such experience are more likely to have been recently promoted relative to peers and to supervise somewhat greater number of employees, especially if their most recent job was in the private sector. While experience in the private sector enhances such career outcomes, the length of such experience diminishes them. The authors conclude by identifying three career scenarios emerging from the models and discussing the managerial and theoretical implications of sector-switching careers.