Nonprofit Versus For-Profit Organizations: A European Overview of Employees’ Work Conditions

Abstract

ABSTRACT Despite the emergence of nonprofit entities, not much is known about the working conditions of employees in the sector. This study compares the working conditions of employees in for-profit and nonprofit sectors using a sample obtained from the V European Survey on Working Conditions 2010. The results derived from a logistic regression model suggest that elements of intrinsic retribution hold more weight and offset more-precarious extrinsic working conditions among employees in the third sector, all of which leads to the development of positive attitudes toward employees’ work and the organization itself.