Women in Higher Management Functions in the Area of Heavy Mechanical Engineering and Plant Construction 1989

Working and living conditions of women in higher management
functions, willingness to accept management duties, compatibility of
management activity and motherhood.
Topics: Path of education; subject direction; degree of employment;
reasons for part-time work; length of and reasons for interruption of
one's own employment and that of partner; company employment; place
of work after studies; work area at work; management activity;
characteristics of employment; work demands; degree of freedom of
activity; thinking about the family and resulting effects from this
on work; repeated selection of activity; requirement level of work
tasks; reasons for selection of occupation; self-assessment of work
achievement; obstacles to increase in achievement; overtime; sleep
deficit; subjective condition after work; cadre discussions in the
last 5 years; last cadre discussion; determinations on occupational
development at the start of activity and location of this;
requirements for regular cadre discussions; regular achievement
assessments; last achievement assessment and satisfaction with it;
role of achievement assessments in the management activity of
superior; persons influencing one's own occupational development;
social activity within and outside of the company; social functions
within and outside of the company; time expenditures for this;
reasons for and against exercise of social functions; membership in
parties and mass organizations; attending party or trade union
schools; current qualification; type and goal of qualification;
qualification contract; course participation in the last 5 years;
identification of management activity in industry (scale); assessment
of management activity in one's company (scale); assessment of
immediate superior; importance of selected areas of life such as
children, friends, work, collective relations, food, environment,
housing, family, clothing, health, occupation, information; time for
individual qualification; conflict fields (scale); conditions for the
exercise of higher management activity; proportion of women in
management functions; effects of management activity of women;
support of women at work; differences in demands on male and female
college graduates; opinions on the topic "women as leaders"; sex of
one's own immediate superior; efforts of the company to gain more
women for management functions; relief for women in higher management
functions; qualification degree, degree of employment, government
management functions and social activity of partner; number and ages
of children; division of labor with partner in child care and
housework; problems with one's own children; care of child with
illness; use of service offerings; achievement-oriented salary
bonuses; income of partner; financial possibilities to satisfy needs;
satisfaction with residence situation; residential status;
significance and realization of leisure activities.
Supplemental form for all college cadre without management function:
willingness to accept government leadership duties; reasons for and
against; objections of partner against acceptance of a management
function; function and time of determination as young and reserve
cadre; content of cadre agreement.
Supplemental form for all college and technical college cadre with
management function and for young and reserve cadre: type and length
of management function; number of subordinate employees; earlier
management functions; reasons for and against; objections of partner
against acceptance of a management function; willingness to accept a
higher management function; reasons for and against; objections of
partner against acceptance of a management function; opinion on the
topic woman and employment; function and time of determination as
young and reserve cadre; content of cadre agreement.