Finnish Working Life Barometer: Local Government Employees 1999

The annual survey studied employee opinion on the quality of working life in Finnish municipalities. Main themes were job characteristics, work environment, conflicts at the workplace, influence over decisions, working hours, wages, employment security and equality. A special theme for the year 1999 survey was employees' capacity to work. First, the respondents were asked about the number of years they had worked for the employer they were working for at the time, type of contract, number of persons at the workplace, what kind of changes there had been in staff numbers, working hours, contracts and staff qualifications and competence over the past 12 months, and whether people had been transferred to other units. Further questions covered team work at the workplace, whether there had been conflicts at the workplace, between what groups and whether the conflicts had decreased or increased over the past 12 months. Employee influence over, for instance, workload and tasks, and changes in the degree of incfluence were investigated as well as trade union influence and R's membership in a trade union or a professional association. Next set of questions covered overtime at work, overtime compensation, flexibility in working times, job characteristics, and changes over the past year in workload, physical or mental stress, in access to training etc. Wage level and pay systems were charted. One topic pertained to whether the respondents had presented any ideas to improve working conditions, products, services or working methods at the workplace and whether there had been other development ideas. They were asked how likely it was that they would be dismissed or laid off, or their tasks or working hours would be changed over the next year. Opinions were charted on the likelihood of getting a new job if becoming unemployed, employment situation in Finland in general and what kind of changes were happening in working life in, for instance, relating to management style, possibility to influence decisions, equality between men and women, the financial situation of their organisation. A number of questions investigated how the employees' capacity to work and occupational health and safety had been taken into account at the workplace, their estimate of own mental and physical capacity to work, illnesses and disabilities diagnosed and their effect on R's capacity to work. One topic covered discrimination and problems experienced at work (e.g. violence, sexual harassment, delay of pay, dangerous or heavy work). Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, urbanity of municipality of residence, occupational status and economic activity, status in employment, industry of employment, employer type, weekly working hours, additional jobs, industry of additional job, number of children aged 10-17 living in the household, R's basic education and vocational education, whether R worked for a municipality or a federation of municipalities and in which sector. Most background variables were obtained from the Labour Force Survey 1999 telephone interviews.

本年度调查针对芬兰地方自治体的员工对工作生活质量的意见进行了研究。主要议题包括工作特性、工作环境、职场冲突、决策影响力、工作时间、薪酬、就业保障以及平等性。1999年度调查特别关注员工的工作能力。首先，受访者被询问了他们在当前工作单位工作的年限、合同类型、职场人数、过去12个月内员工数量、工作时间、合同以及员工资格和能力的变动情况，以及是否有人被调至其他部门。随后的问题涉及职场团队合作、过去12个月内是否存在职场冲突、冲突的群体以及冲突是否有所减少或增加。调查了员工对工作负荷和任务的影响力，以及影响力的变化，以及工会的影响和R加入工会或专业协会的情况。下一组问题覆盖了加班、加班补偿、工作时间灵活性、工作特性，以及过去一年在工作负荷、身心压力、培训机会等方面的变化。绘制了工资水平和薪酬体系。一个议题涉及受访者是否提出了改善工作条件、产品、服务或工作方法的建议，以及是否存在其他发展想法。他们被询问在未来一年内被解雇或裁员、任务或工作时间被改变的可能性。调查了如果失业，找到新工作的可能性、芬兰的就业形势以及与管理工作风格、决策影响力、男女平等、组织财务状况等方面相关的职场生活变化。多个问题探讨了在职场中考虑员工工作能力及职业健康安全的情况，他们对自己心理和生理工作能力的估计，已诊断的疾病和残疾及其对R工作能力的影响。一个议题涉及歧视和工作中遇到的问题（例如：暴力、性骚扰、工资延迟、危险或重体力劳动）。背景变量包括受访者的性别、年龄、居住市的城镇化程度、职业状况和经济活动、就业状况、就业行业、雇主类型、每周工作时间、额外工作、额外工作的行业、家庭中10-17岁孩子的数量、R的基本教育和职业教育、R是否为市政府或市政府联盟工作以及所在行业。大多数背景变量来自1999年劳动力调查的电话访谈。