Voluntary sector workers more satisfied than those in other sectors
Howard Lake | 15 December 2000 | News
Voluntary sector workers are more satisfied in their jobs than works in the private and public sectors, according to new research.
New research from Warwick University suggests that voluntary sector workers get more job satisfaction than those in the private and public sectors. The survey, ‘What has been happening to job satisfaction in Britain?’ found that charity workers score an average of 5.72 out of seven for job satisfaction, against 5.35 in the private sector and 5.45 in the public sector.
Levels of job satisfaction in the public sector have fallen steeply in the 1990s.
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Women are more satisfied with their jobs than men, and black workers are less satisfied than white workers. Graduates are often among the least satisfied. The older the worker, the more likely s/he is to achieve job satisfaction, with a major improvement after the age of 55.
You can read the report by Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics, and Jonathan Gardner, Research Fellow, at the University of Warwick in Adobe Acrobat/PDF.
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