Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180474 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11456
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain in 2004 and 2011 we find school staff are more satisfied and more contented with their jobs than "like" employees in other workplaces. The differentials are largely accounted for by the occupations school employees undertake and perceptions of job quality. School employees are also more committed to their organization than non-school employees, a difference that remains large and statistically significant having conditioned on job quality, human resource management practices (HRM), managerial style and other features of employees' working environment. Using panel data for workplaces and their employees observed in 2004 and 2011 we find increases in organizational commitment are linked to improvements in workplace performance in schools, but not in other workplaces.
Subjects: 
schools
teachers
job satisfaction
job contentment
organizational commitment
school performance
human resource management
managerial style
JEL: 
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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