%0 Journal Article
%T Employee Fit and Job Satisfaction in Bureaucratic and Entrepreneurial Work Environments
%A Julie Langer
%A Mary K. Feeney
%A Sang Eun Lee
%J Review of Public Personnel Administration
%@ 1552-759X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0734371X17693056
%X Job satisfaction has long proved an elusive construct in public management research. Typically, research investigating job satisfaction in the public sector has emphasized a direct link between work environment and individual attitudes. But, some argue that the interaction between work environment and employee attitudes is a more accurate starting point for understanding satisfaction. This analysis investigates the effect that bureaucratic and entrepreneurial work environments have on job satisfaction when employee¨Corganization value congruence is introduced as a mediating factor. The results indicate that job satisfaction has a direct negative relationship with centralized work environments and an indirect positive relationship with entrepreneurial ones, and thus highlight a more complex relationship between work environment and job satisfaction than previously thought. While some environmental reforms may directly influence satisfaction, these findings indicate that value congruence is an important individual-level mechanism that can transform the relationship between the external environment and individual attitudes at work
%K job satisfaction
%K person¨Corganization fit
%K value congruence
%K work environment
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0734371X17693056