This communiqué is based on the following paper: Public Sector Wages in Alberta: How do these Compare to Other Provinces and to the Private Sector? by Richard E. Mueller. Are public sector workers in Alberta over paid? Or are they perhaps just the target of resentment from private sector...

When employees fear punishment for taking initiative, organizations are likely to be less effective and, equally important, such fear extracts a human toll, often contributing to a variety of manifestations of unhappiness including diminished health. We focus on two different types of fears of...