中国公务员职业固化的概念与测量

Government career entrenchment in China

中国公务员通常并不愿意辞职。公务员职业固化是指“公职人员因担忧就业机会有限以及工作变动带来的实质性损失而选择‘深蹲死守’”。本研究深入探讨了政府公务员职业固化概念的核心要素。通过使用混合研究方法,作者识别并测量了四种不同类型的公务员职业固化,即情感成本、职业投资、就业机会有限和外在奖励。本研究的证据进一步表明,情感成本和外在奖励与积极的工作态度高度相关,而职业投资和机会不足与消极的工作态度高度相关。在本文的最后,我们将讨论公务员职业固化量表如何应用于未来的研究。

Despite compromised work morale,Chinese public employees generally feel reluctant to quit a public service job.The present study looks deeply into government career entrenchment,defined here as"public employees’perceived career immobility due to the concern for alternative career availability and substantial losses upon career shifting."By using mixed methods,the authors identify and measure four distinctive types of government career entrenchment,namely,emotional cost,career investment,limited alternatives,and extrinsic rewards.Evidence further shows that emotional cost and extrinsic rewards are more associated with positive work attitudes,while career investment and limited alternatives are more related to negative work attitudes.At the end of the article,we discuss how the developed government career entrenchment scale can be used for future research.