Job Satisfaction, Mental Health, and Occupational Stress Among Senior Civil Servants
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Human Relations
- Vol. 48 (3) , 327-341
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001872679504800306
Abstract
This study found that senior U.K. civil servants were significantly more job dissatisfied and displayed more mental and physical ill health than their private sector counterparts. The main sources of stress were "factors intrinsic to the job" such as poorer comparative pay and working conditions, and a strong feeling of possessing little control over their job and their organization. These results are fully discussed.Keywords
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