A Public Servant: To Be or Not to Be. The Determinants of Employment Decisions Among the Russian MPA Students

This study concerns the determinants of Russian MPA students' work preference. The authors explore the relationship between the image of a civil servant, the pre-employment work expectations, and the MPA students' intentions to work for government. The data are collected from four Russian...

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Published inInternational journal of public administration Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 72 - 82
Main Authors Nezhina, Tamara G., Zaytseva, Tatiana V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Routledge 02.01.2018
Marcel Dekker, Inc
Subjects
Choice of government employment
Civil service
College students
determinants of government employment
Employment
Expectations
Government employees
image of a civil servant
MPA students' choices
pre-employment work expectations
Regression analysis
Students
Work
Russia
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Summary:This study concerns the determinants of Russian MPA students' work preference. The authors explore the relationship between the image of a civil servant, the pre-employment work expectations, and the MPA students' intentions to work for government. The data are collected from four Russian universities by surveying 203 MPA students. The authors factor analyzed the descriptors of the civil servant image and the work expectations and applied logistic regression analysis to predict the probability of the MPA students' choice of public employment.
ISSN:0190-0692
1532-4265
DOI:10.1080/01900692.2017.1350190