Finnish Working Life Barometer: Local Government Employees 2004

The annual survey studied employee opinion on the quality of working life in Finnish municipalities. Main themes were psychosocial working environment, job characteristics, pay systems, job satisfaction, employment security, training and development, capacity to work, and bullying and discrimination at work. The year 2004 survey contained more questions than previously on workplace characteristics, pay systems, bullying and violence, and willingness to give up work. First, the respondents were asked how many 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 and contracts over the past 12 months, and whether people had been transferred to other units. Further questions covered team work, and whether there had been conflicts at the workplace, between what groups and whether the conflicts had decreased or increased over the past 12 months. Incidents of bullying and violence were charted. Next set of questions covered autonomy and influence at work, overtime and its compensation, and membership in a trade union or professional association. Changes over the past year in workload, physical or mental stress, in access to training, support from supervisors etc were charted as well as pay systems and satisfaction with the workplace. 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 initiatives. Other questions covered workplace characteristics and the respondents' participation in job-related training and development. The respondents 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 employment situation in Finland and what kind of changes were happening in working life in, for instance, relating to management style, possibility to influence decisions, 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, the respondents' sickness absences, illnesses, and estimate of own mental and physical capacity to work. The respondents were asked whether they would be willing to give up work. Discrimination at work based on ethnic group, age, gender or contract type was explored. Background variables included, among others, the respondent's gender, age, type of municipality, major region (NUTS2), region (NUTS3), occupational group, status in employment, industry of employment, employer type, economic activity, weekly working hours, additional jobs, industry of additional job, level of 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 2004 telephone interviews.

本年度调查针对芬兰市政部门的员工对工作生活质量的看法进行了研究。主要议题包括心理社会工作环境、工作特征、薪酬体系、工作满意度、就业保障、培训与发展、工作能力以及职场中的欺凌与歧视。2004年的调查在职场特征、薪酬体系、欺凌与暴力以及放弃工作的意愿等方面提出的问题多于以往。首先，受访者被询问他们为当时所服务的雇主工作了多少年，合同类型、工作场所的人数、过去12个月中员工数量、工作时间及合同方面的变化情况，以及是否有人被调至其他部门。后续问题涉及团队合作，以及过去12个月中工作场所是否发生冲突，冲突涉及哪些群体，以及冲突是否有所减少或增加。欺凌和暴力事件也被记录在案。接下来的一系列问题涵盖了工作自主性和影响力、加班及其补偿，以及是否属于工会或专业协会的会员。记录了过去一年中工作负荷、身心压力、培训机会、上级支持等方面的变化，以及薪酬体系和职场满意度。其中一个议题涉及受访者是否向雇主提出了改善工作条件、产品、服务或工作方法的建议，以及是否有过其他发展倡议。其他问题涉及职场特征以及受访者参与与工作相关的培训与发展的程度。受访者被询问在未来一年内他们被解雇或裁员、工作任务或工作时间被改变的可能性。对芬兰的就业形势以及工作生活中与管理工作风格、决策影响力、组织财务状况等方面发生的变化发表了意见。一系列问题调查了工作场所中如何考虑员工的劳动能力和职业健康安全，受访者的病假、疾病以及对自己心理和生理工作能力的自我评估。受访者还被询问他们是否愿意放弃工作。探讨了基于种族、年龄、性别或合同类型的工作场所歧视。背景变量包括受访者的性别、年龄、市政类型、主要区域（NUTS2）、区域（NUTS3）、职业群体、就业状态、就业行业、雇主类型、经济活动、每周工作时间、额外工作、额外工作的行业、教育水平，以及R是否为市政或市政联盟工作以及所在的部门。大多数背景变量均来自2004年劳动力调查的电话访谈。