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Annukka Jyrämä et al.<br />

various city departments or bureaus. In <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> following, our analysis proceeds to identify key aspects<br />

behind <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> positive and negative attitudes towards development work by factor analysis. The aim is to<br />

discover, which experiences and background characteristics might be linked to each o<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r. These<br />

factors describe pers<strong>on</strong>al’s experiences <strong>on</strong> development projects and work. On <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> basis <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> our<br />

analysis, three factors were identified and named;<br />

Positive attitude towards development work, which explains 38% <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> variance.<br />

Time in development work, which explains 12% <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> variance,<br />

Negative attitude towards development work, which explain 10% <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> variance.<br />

I have co workers who are not interested in developing our<br />

activities<br />

We seldom put into practice <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> results <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> development<br />

projects<br />

We have too many development projects at my workplace<br />

I would be happy to c<strong>on</strong>centrate <strong>on</strong> developing my own<br />

work without outside development projects<br />

I feet that work development is well d<strong>on</strong>e in my work place<br />

When developing my work and work place we use well<br />

latest knowledge <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> issues<br />

In my work place we utilize actively <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> experience from<br />

o<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r similar organizati<strong>on</strong>s<br />

Agree Nei<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r agree<br />

nor disagree<br />

0 20 40 60 80 100<br />

%<br />

Have not<br />

thought<br />

about it<br />

Disagree<br />

Figure 2: Percepti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> development work<br />

Table 1: Management positi<strong>on</strong> and attitude towards development work, % (n=1556, p

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