ABSTRACT
This chapter examines whether the altered working conditions are likely to affect employees' psychological attachment to the work place, organizational involvement. It examines the relationship between employees' organizational involvement and factors likely to be salient in these days of government retrenchment and anti-bureaucratic rhetoric, namely, feelings of personal job security, employees' sense of recognition for government employment as a publicly-valued occupation, and changes in staffing levels. The chapter explores public employee motivation by examining the effects of some current working conditions and subjective work experiences on public employees' psychological attachment to their agencies. Public personnel systems are structured to facilitate bureaucratic expertise, continuity and public service motivations in the function of government. The chapter presents some findings that provide some useful insights into the dynamics of employees' organizational involvement which have implications for agencies and employees facing cutbacks in their environments.
