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Study title

Practices of Working Life 2012: Employees

Creator

University of Tampere. Work Research Center (WRC)

Study number / PID

FSD2954 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2954 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2954 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

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Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The survey studied organisational practices, organisational change, job characteristics, workplace relations and well-being at work in Finland from the employee perspective. The contents of the survey were influenced by the MEADOW (Measuring the Dynamics of Organisations and Work) tool created to collect data on change at work and in organisations at the European level, both from employers and employees. Another influence were the national MEADOW surveys in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. This dataset forms the Finnish employee-level MEADOW survey. However, the Finnish survey also includes some national questions. Data were collected from employees of the private and public sector organisations that had participated in the employer survey. Both employer (FSD2955) and employee (FSD2954) surveys have been archived and the data can be combined using the organisation number variable. First, the respondents were asked whether they still worked at the organisation in question and what their job was. Job characteristics were charted with questions on work contract, working hours, use of foreign languages at work, supervisory or management responsibilities, presence and nature of group or team work, team member influence. The respondents were asked to evaluate their workplace regarding a number of aspects, for instance, enthusiasm, competence, employee well-being, management, utilisation of staff ideas. Assistance received from supervisor, co-workers or clients in difficult or overload situations, targets set for the job, achieving these targets, and working to tight deadlines or at speed were charted. Further questions investigated how often the respondents worked at home, or worked or were contacted outside normal office hours. Changes in work organisation were studied with questions on what kind of changes had been done in the organisation in the past two years, including changes in task division, organisational structure, working methods or systems, whether these changes...
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Topics

Social sciencesWorking conditions

Keywords

Occupational lifeEmployeesBusinessesOrganizationsPublic sectorPrivate sectorWell-being at workWorkers participationInnovationEmployment contractsAutonomy at workFlexible working time
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Methodology

Data collection period

19/09/2012 - 19/12/2012

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Employees of private companies and public sector organisations that had participated in the employer-level survey (FSD2955) and employ at least 10 persons (excluding agriculture and forestry organisations). Only the employees who had been working in the organisation for at least 6 months were included.

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Telephone interview

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2014

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

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