Consequences of organizational reform at labor offices: do employees feel political powerlessness, meaniglessness and job dissatisfaction?
Abstract
The article deals with an organizational reform of the labor offices between 2011 and 2012, which consists of organizational changes related to the management offices, and expansion of public employment services provided by labor offices. The decision-making process, approval and implementation is often cited as an prototype of policy fiasco.
The reform was accompanied by a number of difficulties concerning the employees of the labor offices, many of which persist until today. Using questionnaire method we discover and reveal the consequences of organizational reforms in relation to employees and in terms of their degree of policy alienation (Tummers, 2012), that is the sense of political powerlessness and meaninglessness, and general job satisfaction (eg.
Judge, 2001).