PROFESSIONAL NOTES EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION: TWO MEASUREMENT ISSUES

One of the most perplexing issues facing today's personnel manager, employee motivation, is particularly important in the public sector. It has been the sub-ject of numerous and complex research projects, staff development programs, employee retreats, and news editorials. Current research has found differences in motivation between the public and private sectors and has suggested that for-mal and informal constraints in public organizations may be affecting levels of employee motivation (Giblin, 1976; Rainey, Backoff and Levine, 1976; Rainey, 1979; Blumenthal, 1979; Rainey, 1983). Further, there is evidence in-dicating a lack of goal clarity in public organizations which also may be in-fluencing employee motivation (Levine, Backoff, Cahoon and Siffin, 1975; Dah