This paper investigates public and private nonprofit employees’ motivation to serve the public and the public interest and variation in their perceptions of worker quality and work life in the public and business sectors. We propose a Model for Determinants of Sector Perceptions and...

In this article, I investigate whether or not there is variance in public managers' perceptions of worker quality and work life, by sector. Specifically, I investigate whether state-level public managers perceive the public sector or the private sector as having more challenging work and more...