Workplace Ethnography (WE) Project, 1944-2002

This Workplace Ethnography project generated content-coded data from the full population of book-length English language organizational ethnographies. Drawn from Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Norway, the Philippines, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, United States, and Zambia, these ethnographies provided deep descriptions on a wide range of topics, such as worker behavior, management behavior, coworker relations, labor process, conflict and resistance, citizenship behavior, emotional labor, and sexual harassment. Coding of these characteristics yielded variables based on descriptions of worklife in specific organizational settings. The study data was collected in mainly two periods: the early 1990s and the early 2000s. The study generated 204 ethnographic cases. These cases were derived from 156 separate books since the observations reported in some books allowed the coding of multiple cases. The general scope of questions included organizational factors such as occupation, workplace organization, pay scheme, employment size, the situation of the company, the nature of company ownership, staff turnover, layoff frequency, how well the organization operated in terms of communications, recruitment and retention of personnel, and maintenance of equipment, as well as substantive facts concerning labor market opportunity, and labor force composition. On the topic of management, questions addressed leadership, organization of production, sexual harassment, and control strategies. Community factors were assessed through questions regarding unemployment and if the area was rural or urban. A series of questions addressed job satisfaction, pay, benefit package, job security, effort bargain, conflict with management/supervisors, training, worker strategies, conditions of consent/compliance, and nature of consent/compliance. The nature of work was queried through questions regarding autonomy, creativity, meaningful work, freedom of movement, comfort of work, injuries, employment status, and frequency of conflict with customers. Additional questions included size and nature of the focal group, group dynamics, conflict between the focal group and management, basis of alternative social groups at work, and if work friendships carried over to the outside. Questions about methodology covered ethnographer's theoretical orientation, focus of ethnography, ethnographer's gender, data collection method, supplemental data used, main type of supplemental data used, and position of key informant. Additional items gathered basic information about book title, author's last name, modal occupation, industry, country/region, and observer's role.

本职场民族志项目通过对全部英文学术著作长篇组织民族志的全面内容编码，生成了一系列数据。这些民族志资料来源于澳大利亚、加拿大、中国、哥伦比亚、法国、大不列颠、匈牙利、印度、以色列、日本、挪威、菲律宾、苏格兰、南非、瑞典、台湾、美国和赞比亚等地，对包括工人行为、管理行为、同事关系、劳动过程、冲突与抵抗、公民行为、情感劳动和性骚扰等广泛主题进行了深入描述。对这些特征特征的编码产生了基于特定组织环境下工作生活描述的变量。研究数据主要收集于两个时期：20世纪90年代初和21世纪初。研究共产生了204个民族志案例。这些案例源自156本书籍，因为某些书籍中报告的观察结果允许对多个案例进行编码。研究范围涵盖了诸如职业、工作场所组织、薪酬制度、就业规模、公司状况、公司所有权性质、员工流动率、裁员频率、组织在沟通、人员招聘与保留以及设备维护方面的运营状况等组织因素，以及关于劳动力市场机会和劳动力构成的具体事实。在管理方面，研究涉及领导力、生产组织、性骚扰和控制策略。通过关于失业情况以及该地区是农村还是城市的提问，评估了社区因素。一系列问题涉及工作满意度、薪酬、福利套餐、职业保障、努力谈判、与管理/监督者的冲突、培训、工人策略、同意/遵从的条件以及同意/遵从的性质。通过关于自主性、创造力、有意义的工作、行动自由、工作舒适度、伤害、就业状况以及与客户冲突频率的问题，对工作的本质进行了探究。还包括了关于焦点群体的大小和性质、群体动力学、焦点群体与管理层的冲突、工作场所中替代社会群体形成的基础，以及工作友谊是否延伸到工作之外的问题。关于方法论的问题涉及民族志者的理论取向、民族志的焦点、民族志者的性别、数据收集方法、补充数据的使用、主要补充数据类型以及关键信息提供者的位置。此外，还收集了关于书籍标题、作者姓氏、主要职业、行业、国家/地区和观察者角色的基本信息。