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Achievement-Personality-Scientific-Technical Progress in the GDR 1981
Creator
Institut für marxistisch-leninistische Soziologie an der Akademie für Gesellschaftswissenschaften beim ZK der SED, Berlin
Study number / PID
ZA6330, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.6330 (DOI)
Data access
Information not available
Series
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Abstract
Self-assessment of work habits, work attitude and work motivation as
well as personal work situation and situation in life by working
people in combination with 3rd-party assessment of level of
achievement, ability and behavior through the respective collective
leader.
Topics: Question part for production workers: length of belonging to
work collective; activity exercised and duration; shift work;
influence of selected personality traits and behaviors on achieving
high performance (scale); degree of necessary knowledge and abilities
for task fulfillment; condition of health; satisfaction with work
results and reasons for dissatisfaction; importance of occupation
characteristics (scale); characteristics of job situation (scale);
nerve stress and its causes; conditions for work performance;
personal reaction at not achieving work performance; negative sides
of work; improvement recommendations and reasons for submitting them;
assessment of the situation in world politics; stand on work
discipline (scale); amount of overtime monthly; special shifts;
willingness to work with new technology; position on collective
(scale); cooperation in the collective; participation in plan and
competition discussions; degree of expression of characteristics of
collective; stand on poor work of colleagues; relationship between
collective and leader; necessary improvements of this relationship;
necessary cooperation of members of the scientific-technical
intelligentsia in the transfer phase; fair pay; level of achievement
figures; evaluation and recognition of work performance (scale);
possibilities to achieve higher income; innovator recommendations in
the last two years; honorary functions within and outside of the
company and time expended for this; agreement of training occupation
and current activity; desired characteristics and concepts of life;
occupation of father at time of personally leaving school; influence
of parents on one's learning...
Terminology used is generally based on DDI controlled vocabularies: Time Method, Analysis Unit, Sampling Procedure and Mode of Collection, available at CESSDA Vocabulary Service.
Methodology
Data collection period
1981 - 1982
Country
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Not available
Universe
Not available
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Purposive
Specific selection
Kind of data
Not available
Data collection mode
Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI)
Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
1982
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.