Personnel in the Civil Service (Career)

The job situation and course career of civil servants and employees in
the civil service.

Topics: Detailed determination of occupational career and social
origins; official and honorary activities; participation in career
examinations; vocational training; horizontal and vertical occupational
mobility; earlier occupations; initiator of promotions; change of
subject area and change of employer; adaptation difficulties and
prospects of promotion with career change; desire for promotion and
promotion prospects; assessment of occupation possibilities outside of
the civil service; judgement on the promotion and evaluation practice
in the civil service; assessment of previous and future occupational
career; previous fulfillment of personal occupation expectations and
occupation desires; work satisfaction and satisfaction with income;
occupation of father and as appropriate his employment in a government
office; judgement on the job of the staff council for civil servants;
frequency of differences of opinion between the staff council for civil
servants and the government office management; desired significance of
party affiliation for promotions; average grade in leaving certificate
of school last attended.

Scales: comparison of employer in civil service versus private
economy; diffuse affinity; dogmatism; external calculation; emotional
lability; ambiguity intolerance; striving for occupational success;
rigidity; dominance and speed.

Demography: age (classified); sex; school education; vocational
training; occupation; professional position; income.

Furthermore the following indices were encoded: satisfaction;
participation; speed of promotion; striving for advancement; horizontal
mobility; intrinsic motivation; career inconsistency.