The Social Situation of the Chemistry Worker

Attitudes and company situation of chemistry workers.

Topics: The data were collected in two separate interviews.

The following questions were posed in the first interview: job
satisfaction after Bullock (scale); extent to which informed about the
production process or the end product produced; type of training at work;
contacts with colleagues due to work; necessity of observing work rules;
number of direct superiors; particular evaluation of material or
non-material advantages of personal work; desired changes regarding work;
particular work stress and perceived changes in recent time; necessity of
particular experience for one´s own work; persons influencing one´s own
work or personal possibilities to influence the work of others;
conversation contacts with colleagues during work; person to confide in
at work for personal or factual questions; contacts with colleagues
outside work; friends at work; interest in a different job.

The following questions were posed in the second part of the
interview: judgement on general as well as personal prospects of
promotion in the company; assumption about willingness of the company
to help in a personal situation of need; most important company social
service and desired changes; working conditions particularly
influencing one´s own work; ideal characteristics of a superior as well
as of company management; consideration of employee opinion in the
company; measures to strengthen employee demands; recommendations on
improving the situation of workers in the company; personal
understanding of co-determination; integration in the company (scale);
commuting time to the company; leisure behavior; desired leisure
activities; conversations about work within the family; secondary
income; savings habits; preferred educational goals; assessment of
general prospects for the future; satisfaction with the goal in life
reached; attitude to technical progress; driving forces of technical
progress.

Demography: year of birth; sex; marital status; position at work;
gross income; start of work (classified); length of company employment;
frequency of change of company or change of department within the
company; shift and pay form; earlier occupation; commuter or not
commuter; shift work.