Burocracia, sociedad civil e ideología en América Latina

Public servants are conditioned by perceptions about their jobs environments that can lead them to have less appreciation for their organizations. There are few studies that focus on a theoretical and practical understanding of the organizational environment as a factor that may lead public workers to low motivation and job satisfaction levels. We aim to explore organizational environment of Colombia’s public-sector entities as a key organizational aspect, considering the demographic characteristics of Colombian public servants. Through multivariate statistics we explore whether some demographic and organizational traits of public officials play a role on their appreciations of their organizational environments. To do so, we use data from a survey of the National Department of Statistics of Colombia, covering more than 6,000 public officials at the regional level. This article aims to inform practice since it provides empirical evidence about Colombia’s public organizations employees, suggesting that graduate middle professionals with more than six years of service, and technicians with more than twelve years of service tend to purport negative perceptions about the organizational environments of Colombian public organizations. Thus, seniority in Colombia appears to have a key role on such perceptions.El trabajo de los servidores públicos está condicionado por sus percepciones acerca del ambiente de trabajo, las cuales pueden llevarlos a afectar sus visiones sobre la organización. No existen muchos estudios que, a nivel teórico o práctico, analicen en Colombia el ambiente laboral como un factor relacionado con la motivación y la satisfacción laboral de los servidores públicos. A través del uso de técnicas estadísticas multivariadas, este artículo explora si: diferentes factores sociodemográficos y organizacionales tienen un efecto sobre las percepciones de los servidores acerca del ambiente laboral. Utilizamos datos del DANE, cubriendo más de 6,000 oficiales públicos a nivel regional