Social Problems with Socially Necessary Change of Job in the Industry of the GDR 1985

Readiness and opportunities for socially necessary change of job among production workers. Topics: Judgement on job situation; characteristics of a good worker; influence of scientific-technical progress on one's own work as well as on living conditions; prospects for the future of employment; future work in occupation learned; consequences of possible changes of employment; suitable colleagues for conversion; factors to be considered by management in work change; willingness to change companies and prerequisites for this; preferred area of national economy; working conditions as cause for change of job (scale); technical progress and further development of work collective; willingness to leave work collective; technical progress and responsibility of leader; development of pay; stand on collective and individual figures; readiness for qualification and reasons for this; extent to which informed about company perspectives and conversion processes; necessity of production conversions; recommendations on structuring conversion processes and their consideration; necessity of participation in conversion processes; company employment; honorary function within and outside of company;