On Social Development in Consumer Goods Domestic Trade of the GDR 1982

Working and living conditions, achievement conduct and evaluation,
competition and collective development.
Topics: Work demands and characteristics; shift work; working hours;
reasons for desire for shortened working hours; length of employment
in business and in respective department; occupational perspectives
in business; size of work collective; satisfaction with various sides
of employment such as independence, the route to work, recognition of
achievement, the relationship among colleagues and with customers,
working hours, social care, hygienic conditions at work, variety,
physical and nervous burdens, work organization, breaks, and display
of merchandise; membership in parties and organizations; honorary
functions at work, in department, in work collective, outside of
company; significance of group meals for condition of health;
condition of health; influence of working conditions on the
achievement of work collective; criteria for achievement evaluation;
preferred leisure activities; interest in qualification; agreement of
occupation learned and activity exercised; influence of leader on
efficiency of work, solving supply tasks, organization of daily work,
development of working and living conditions, on collective life;
characteristics of leader (scale); willingness to accept management
duties, reasons for and against (scale); desired influence on work
organization, plan discussion, reduction of business costs, working
and living conditions, culture and education work, economic
efficiency, structuring breaks, securing product selection, full
utilization of working hours; changes of working conditions and work
demands in the last few years (scale); stand on loafing at work;
necessity and possibility of involvement in securing product
selection, in developing company plans, in improving working and
living conditions; extent to which informed about supply situation;
preferred areas for government subsidies (scale); desired
improvements of working and living conditions at work; reduction of
daily working hours; securing a product selection appropriate to
demand; lengthening vacation; higher compensation of work; income of
partner; financial opportunities to satisfy needs; participation in
socialist competition; personal competition obligation; competition
evaluation in collective; residential status; place of residence;
changes of housing conditions since 1971; satisfaction with living
conditions in residential area; number of daily sales conversations;
frequency of response "we don't have that"; conflicts with customers
due to gaps in selection; psychological effects; contribution of
business to improved supply (scale); business branch; function group;
store size; area of business group; importance of goals in life
(scale); preferred acquisitions.