ABSTRACT

This study examines front-line police officers’ job satisfaction in mid-sized municipal departments in the Midwestern United States. We use a 2019 cross-sectional survey of seven police departments (N = 234) to examine the relationships between officers’ job satisfaction and their public service motivations (PSM), perceptions of person-environment fit with three referent groups – top managers, supervisors, and coworkers – and their perceptions of self-legitimacy. The results suggest that organizational fit with top managers, PSM, and officers’ self-legitimacy are all positively related to job satisfaction, explaining nearly half of the variance in the sample. Using multiple regression models, we explore the potential mediating effects of fit on PSM but find little support for this proposition. Among individual-level control variables that were assessed, only tenure was significantly (negatively) related to job satisfaction.

摘要

本研究考察了美国中西部中型市政部门一线警察的工作满意度。我们使用了 2019 年对七个警察部门的横断面调查（N= 234) 来检查官员的工作满意度与其公共服务动机 (PSM) 之间的关系，与三个参照群体——高级经理、主管和同事——以及他们对自我合法性的看法相适应的人-环境感知。结果表明，与高层管理者的组织契合度、PSM 和官员的自我合法性都与工作满意度呈正相关，解释了样本中近一半的差异。使用多元回归模型，我们探索了拟合对 PSM 的潜在中介效应，但几乎没有发现对这一命题的支持。在评估的个人层面控制变量中，只有任期与工作满意度显着（负）相关。