The Unlike the private sector, women are overrepresented in public sector unions because public sector unions concentrate in female occupations that is under-represented. Research was conducted on the gender pay gaps, and results determined the public sector government employment offers women an earnings premium in the U.S. (Rosefield & Denice, 2018). The role of the public sector is providing a service to the community, citizens, state and federal government. This may come as a firefighter, police officer, state official, court clerk, schoolteacher or border patrol agent.
The civil service system was developed in 1887-1893 in Brooklyn and New York City the Pendleton Act of 1883. The purpose was to improve the government operation during a time when the management process was not defined (Hardy, 2006). The advantage of a pay-for-performance scheme in the public sector is that some form of performance-based recognition will increase productivity and be cost-effective. A down-side to the system involves the inability of a manager to provide meaningful incentives to the hard-working employee and try to weed out the less effective workers.
Explain how Government employee unions are not able to use their own position to provide an effective challenge for wages and working conditions elsewhere in the economy, and there is not much political activity by public sector unions on behalf of private sector workers (Rosefield & Denice, 2018). The public sector unions lack the interest or capabilities to improve the working conditions and lift the wages of unorganized private sector workers, and the financial increase may place a strain on the local and state budget.
References:
Hardy, P., (2006). Civil Service: Some Pros, Cons and Suggestion Reform. Retrieved from:
Rosenfeld, J. & Denice, P., (2018). What Do Government Union Do? Public Sector Unions and Nonunion Wages, 1977-2015. Retrieved from:
