On Social Development in Consumer Goods Domestic Trade of the GDR 1988

Working and living conditions, achievement conduct and evaluation,
competition and collective development.
Topics: Work demands and characteristics; shift work; working hours;
reasons for change of job of other colleagues; length of employment
in business and in respective department; occupational perspectives
in business; size of work collective; change of workplace among
colleagues; satisfaction with various sides of the occupation such as
with independence, the route to work, recognition of achievement,
relationship among colleagues and to customers, working hours, social
care, payment, 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; quality and participation in group meals; influence of
working conditions on achievement of work collective (scale); feeling
responsibility for supply of the population; importance of selected
areas of life such as children, being active, friends, social
security, hobbies, family, all-round education, occupational
advancement, partner relation, peace, extent to which informed,
health, residence, work, environment; use of modern technology in
business and changes at work from this; interest in qualification;
agreement of occupation learned and activity exercised; influence
factors on achievement habits (scale); influence of leader on solving
work task; characteristics of leader (scale); willingness to accept
management duties, reasons for and against (scale); desired influence
on work organization, plan goals, reduction of business costs,
working and living conditions, culture and education work, economic
efficiency, structuring of breaks, securing product selection,
effective use of working hours, management activity; 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 for work;
hypothetical course of the next work day; break plan; characteristic
of a normal work day; arrangement of working hours; necessary changes
of work organization; activity and income of partner; financial
possibilities to satisfy needs; participation in socialist
competition; innovator recommendations; residential status; 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
better supply (scale); business branch; function group; store size;
area of business group; restaurant type.
Supplemental form for directors and heads of department: importance
of goals in life (scale).