On the Relation between Public Organizations and the Political Environment: an Empirical Study in the Field of Education
On the Relation between Public Organizations and the Political Environment: an Empirical Study in the Field of Education

Summary/Abstract: The issue of the political environment determining the functioning of public sector organizations has received increasing attention the last two decades. In this article we review the literature for the most relevant constructs used in the stream of environmental research. We identify the fittest constructs to introduce in our own empirical research. Using data from the education sector over an eleven-year period, this study explores three hypotheses: that (1) wages, (2) competition for resources and (3) education units density are strongly associated to employee turnover in education. Using the multiple regression technique, this article reports on the factors that can be accounted for the variance in employee turnover in education.

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