Public sector employees: Risk averse and altruistic?

Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees

Defined benefit pension plan distribution decisions by public sector employees

a r t i c l e i n f o Studies examining pension distribution choices have found that the tendency of private-sector workers is to select lump sum distributions instead of life annuities resulting in leakage of retirement savings. In the public sector, defined benefit pensions usually offer lump sum distributions equal to employee contributions, not the present value of the annuity. Thus, for te...

E-government diffusion in Iran: a public sector employees' perspective

Governments worldwide, since the 1990s, have launched projects with the mission to simplify delivery of services through electronic means (Torres et al., 2005). E-government is a breakthrough of communication and transaction between a government and its citizens or government and industries. The purpose of this paper is to identify the most salient factors that are currently influencing the dev...

Identification of the mental workload of public employees in the administrative sector at a public university.

In the workplace there are risk factors that can overwhelm the health of the worker causing physical and psychological disorders. Among these disorders, is occupational stress. Thus, this research proposes to measure the mental workload of job stress from the identification of demand, control and social support. It is an observational cross-sectional epidemiological character, performed with th...

Public Sector and Globalization: Towards New public Management

Running public service organizations that is used in government and public service institutions and agencies, at both sub-national and national levels is a major area of research in public policy in the era of globalization. Thus, the aim of this paper is to probe relationships between new public management and the process of globalization. It argues that the emergence of NPM is the consequence...