One of the most critical issues facing government over the next decade will be filling management positions vacated by Baby Boomers. The purpose of this quantitative correlational research study was to examine how intrinsic and extrinsic motivations affect job satisfaction among different age cohorts in the public workforce. The public workforce is comprised of Baby Boomers (born 1946- 1964), Generation X (born 1965- 1980) and Generation Y (born1981 to 1996). The theoretical framework for this study was Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory. A random sample of 213 participants: Generation Y = 40, Generation X = 77, and Baby Boomers = 96, participated in an online SurveyMonkey government panel. The panel was composed of local, state, and federal employees. Participants answered the survey using the Career Goals Scale, the Job Satisfaction Scale, and a brief demographics scale. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics as a measure of central tendency. Also, inferential statistics using Pearson product-moment correlations, simple linear regressions, and one-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) were conducted to answer three central research questions. Results revealed that both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations affect job satisfaction. Also, results of the individual one-way ANOVAs did not indicate significant differences in intrinsic motivation or job satisfaction among the age cohorts. Finally, pairwise comparisons determined that there were significant differences in extrinsic motivation between Baby Boomers and Generation Y. The information for this study may inform human resource managers in the public sector, about factors that would affect benefit plan policy, and improve recruitment and retention of employees.

La présente thèse s’attache à analyser les transformations de la mobilisation des agents publics locaux au cours des années 1990 – 2000 en Allemagne, en France et au Royaume-Uni. Elle interroge l’agencement des modalités nationales et supranationales dans le cadre de la mobilisation des agents des collectivités locales, sous forme de système de mobilisation. Elle se propose de construire un cadre d’analyse s’appuyant sur la sociologie du travail et la sociologie politique. Afin de mener à bien notre analyse, nous avons développé un outil analytique qui permet de dépasser les données brutes pour leur donner plus de sens et permettre une comparaison internationale des transformations en cours au regard de leur inscription dans des contextes socio-historiques spécifiques, bien qu’interconnectés. Ce travail passe par la recherche des déterminants pesant sur la mobilisation des agents publics locaux, en appréhendant leur découpage catégoriel au-delà de l’horizon statistique. La rupture qui est introduite par la réforme de l’Etat ne prenant pleinement sens qu’au regard de la comparaison avec la situation antérieure, l’historicité du phénomène sera au cœur de notre analyse. / This thesis intends to analyze the transformations of mobilizinglocal publicworkforcethrough the years 1990 - 2000 in Germany, France and United Kingdom. It questions the patterns of national and supranational arrangements in the context of mobilizing local authorities’ workforce as “mobilization system”. It then proposes to construct an analytical framework based on both labour sociology and political sociology. To complete our analysis, we have developed an analytical tool that overcomes the raw data to allow international comparison of current transformations in regard to specific socio-historical contexts, yet linked. This is done through researching the determinants weighing mobilization systems in apprehending their categorical cutting beyond the common statisticalhorizon. The discontinuity introduced by the reform of the State comes to full meaning only in the light of the comparison with the previous situation, so the historicity of the phenomenon is at the heart of our analysis.