Striving to Achieve and Activity in the Achievement of Scientific-Technical Progress 1983

Achievement habits, working and living conditions, achievement
prerequisites and evaluation in innovation processes.
Topics: Importance of occupation characteristics (scale); length of
affiliation with company and team; occupation learned; agreement of
education and activity exercised; further education; agreement of
capabilities and content requirements in work; goals of
scientific-technical measures in the economy (scale); effects of
these measures on selected sides of life (scale); willingness to
adapt and expected changes regarding work collective, activity at
work, further education in occupation, change of occupation, job,
place of work, place of residence; successful experiences at work;
contribution of science and technology to economic development;
reasons to go to work (scale); personal responsibility for assigned
tasks, tasks of the whole collective, plan fulfillment of institute /

company, benefit of work results, applied technology, creating
prerequisites for work; reasons for striving to achieve (scale);
assessment of capability in current work area; readiness for higher
achievements and to accept management responsibility; influence on
capability of housing conditions, shopping opportunities,
opportunities for child care, recuperation opportunities, health
care, availability of lunch at work, arrangement of working hours,
service offerings, household furnishings and cultural life;
recognition of work performances by colleagues; agreement of salary
and work performance in comparison to other colleagues; fairness in
relationship of personal income and general income level; importance
of recognition of work by colleagues, leader, director, scientific
public, users of work results at work, through premiums, as inventor,
through a patent; assessment of reputation of collective, of
organization, the responsibility of the company to the national
economy and one's own contribution to solving the tasks of the
collective; conditions in working on current task; planned level of
results; occupational advancement; innovation of one's own ideas;
recognition of results; development of total work income; risk
readiness; identification with work task; ability to assert oneself;
efforts applied; independence; possibility to obtain a patent;
opportunities of making one's mark; theoretical content of work task;
membership in the Chamber of Technology; development opportunities of
colleagues with new ideas; importance of increasing work
productivity, attaining top world quality through the
scientific-technical level of products, material savings, developing
patentable solutions, strengthening the position of the DDR, making
one's mark as specialist; presence of theoretical knowledge,
practical skills, capabilities of organization and management as well
as for systematic and rational manner of working; additional
qualifications; technical and time prerequisites to substitute for a
colleague; readiness to accept responsibility; occupation experience;
assessment criteria for personal work results; achievement-based pay;
achievement-based salary bonuses; cooperation relations with other
areas of the facility, with other institutions / companies of the
GDR, with facilities abroad; necessity and possibility of cooperation
with production areas; preferred leisure activities; work atmosphere
in collective (scale); reasons for conflicts in work collective and
their effect on work; conflict in evaluation of performance;
assessment of position in collective; way of working of leader
(scale); frequency of conflict with bureaucratic phenomenona; degree
of extent to which informed about plan fulfillment of the company,
evaluation of achievement, scientific-technical highest status in the
work area; frequency of occurrence of headaches, stomachaches,
depressive moods, heart and circulatory complaints, sleeplessness,
lack of appetite and insufficient general well-being; importance of
occupation, children, love and partnership, higher position,
residence, further education, friends, collective, social activity,
health, hobbies, financial reserves; participation in developing the
plan, specification and calculation of work results; opinion on
socialist competition and participation in it; personal competition
obligation; residential status; age at first residence; time of
improvement in housing conditions; study; number and ages of children
in household; employment of partner; working hours; shift work; use
of further opportunities to earn such as development of patents,
publications/lectures, innovator activity, overtime, secondary
income; membership in parties and mass organizations; social
functions at work; assessment of the relationship of work and leisure
time; relation of hobby and work; supplement sheet on work demands;
supplement sheet for topic leader: assessment of reserves for
accelerating scientific-technical progress; willingness to accept a
management function; reasons for and against.