Motivation, job satisfaction and stress among civil servants is an important subject due to evidence that the working conditions of government employees has deteriorated in the wake of economic collapse in the fall of 2008, including increased workload which is considered one of the main drive of stress among employees.
Viðfangsefnið er mikilvægt þar sem vísbendingar eru um að starfsaðstæður ríkisstarfsmanna hafi versnað í kjölfar efnahagshrunsins haustið 2008, m.a. hafi vinnuálag aukist sem talinn er einn helsti áhrifavaldur streitu meðal starfsmanna.