Composite Index of Local Government Employees Satisfaction

• Authors: Bartłomiej Jefmański , Krzysztof Błoński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper proposes a structure of a composite Index of Local Government Employees Satisfaction (ESI) in Poland. The index provides a based on four sub-indices synthetic assessment of the level of employee satisfaction with the employment in local government offices. The sub-indices have been constructed using an exploratory factor analysis with the VARIMAX one. The ESI and sub-indices values have been normalized in the range of [0–100%], wherein higher ESI values indicate higher employee satisfaction. The proposed approach is used to assess the level of employee satisfaction with the employment in some local government units in the West Pomerania province. The analysis was based on the results of the measurements made in 2009–2010 by comparing the results of two groups of employees separated on the basis of a criterion of their place of employment.

Keywords

EN

employee satisfaction; composite indexr; J28; J45; C01

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 77-95

Dates

received

2013-09-04

accepted

2014-01-17

online

2014-07-08

Contributors

author

Bartłomiej Jefmański

• Wrocław University of Economics Faculty of Economics, Management and Tourism Department of Econometrics and Computer Science Nowowiejska 3, 58-500 Jelenia Góra, Poland

author

Krzysztof Błoński

• University of Szczecin Faculty of Economics and Management Marketing Department Mickiewicza 64, 71-101 Szczecin, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/foli-2013-0012