The employees of non-profit organizations in a lucrative world
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https://doi.org/10.51302/rtss.2013.3184Keywords:
third sector, employees, Europe, lucrative sector, working conditions, logistic regressionAbstract
The importance of the non-profit sector in the global economy has been growing in recent decades, currently representing a very important part of the European economic and social fabric. Despite the emergence of these entities, the working conditions of employees in the sector are not sufficiently known. This study aims to provide new shades, traces and colors to help finish off the framework of the third sector in the European Union level. To achieve this purpose we compare the working conditions of employees in profit and nonprofit sectors, using a sample obtained from the V European Survey on Working Conditions 2010: 1,066 employees distributed among 469 «non-profit» and 597 «lucrative» organizations. With these data a logistic regression model is applied for determining the combined effect that different categories of variables-personal, organizational and contextual have on the probability that an individual who work in the non-profit sector compared with lucrative sector.
The results obtained in the logistic regression model find that the weight of the intrinsic elements compensate poorer working conditions among employees in the third sector, this will lead to the development of positive attitudes towards work and the organization.
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