Psychological needs at work and job satisfaction: is there a divide between the public and private sectors?
基于英国代表性数据，研究发现自主性对公共部门员工的工作满意度提升更大，而胜任感和归属感对私营部门员工更重要；其中归属感对两部门都最重要，胜任感最不重要。
This study examines how the psychological needs from Self-Determination Theory – the need for autonomy, competence, and relatedness – differ for job satisfaction of public and private sector employees. Using representative data from Britain, we first find that the positive relationships between competence and job satisfaction and between relatedness and job satisfaction are stronger for private than for public sector employees. Autonomy, however, increases job satisfaction more for public than for private sector employees. Second, relatedness is most important for private and public sector employees’ job satisfaction. Feeling competent is the least important in both sectors.