Study title

The annual survey studied employee opinion on the quality of working life in Finland. Main themes were psychosocial working environment, job characteristics, pay systems, satisfaction with the job, employment security, training and development, capacity to work, and bullying and discrimination at work. The year 2012 survey contained new questions (K9a_07c, K40, K41a, K41b, K42b - K42e, K43a, K43e, K44a - K44g) about distribution of work, management and leadership, working in teams, support received at work, and working outside the workplace. First, the respondents were asked how many years they had worked for the employer they were working for at the time, whether they were in a managing position, and how many persons worked at the workplace. Changes in the number of staff, distribution of work, working methods, information systems, workload, and tasks during the past 12 months were charted. Psychosocial working environment was charted with questions about openness and equality in the workplace as well as measures taken to improve health of employees, safety of work environment, and skills of employees. Discrimination at work based on ethnic group, age, gender and type of contract was explored. Further questions investigated whether there had been conflicts at the workplace and between which groups. Incidents of bullying, harassment and violence were surveyed. Next set of questions investigated the respondents' membership in a trade union or professional association, flexible working time arrangements at the workplace, overtime and its compensation, pay and bonus systems, and satisfaction with pay level. The respondents' participation in job-related training and development was investigated. Working in teams was surveyed by asking, for instance, whether the team members were able decide the goals of the team and to allocate tasks, and whether the team included members from other organisations. Relating to working outside the workplace, the respondents were...