Public sector turnover: a case study of Minas Gerais public policy and governmental management specialists career

un estudio de caso de la carrera de especialistas en políticas públicas y gestión gubernamental en el estado de Minas Gerais

Abstract

This research intends to discuss employee turnover in the Minas Gerais Public Policy and Government Management Specialist career (EPPGG). Its main objective is to understand the reasons why these evasions occur, the main characteristics of the evaded and their professional destiny. To do so, an empirical research was carried out with these career former members, exploring the reasons for this evasion, the conditions for its occurrence, the relation with the professional experience and the direction taken after it. We were able to get 94 answers for our questionnaire. The turnover tends to occur early in the working years. If the worker leaves the government before three years, he should pay the government back for his training. The evaders would tend to earn more out than in the abandoned career. They would also tend to seek a second college degree (most in law school). They also tend to relocate themselves in the public service (not in the private or in the third sectors). As in other studies, wage dissatisfaction seems to be the main reason for avoidance and not with work itself.