Occupation and Function

Determination of education, occupation and areas of responsibility of
employees with mid-range and higher qualification. Attitudes, interests
and reading habits.

Topics: 1. Education, occupation and function: status in profession;
length of employment; part-time or full-time employment; school
education and professional training; education areas; college
education; academic degree; academic and non-academic occupations
studied, with or without degree; leadership duties and management
activities; duties in office and management; activities primarily
conducted; range of control; personal office; personal use of technical
equipment and computers for office communication and control of
production; knowledge of foreign languages; measures for further
education completed; seminars and courses; further education specific
to field; further education for higher qualification; schooling within
the company; interest in measures for further education; activity as
instructor; secondary activities; honorary activities; memberships in
organizations, associations, clubs or parties; time worked each week;
overtime; days of vacation; use of company car; car brand and
displacement; purchase or lease of vehicle; vehicle equipped with
catalytic converter and car telephone; participants in purchase
decision; possibility to use the company car privately.

2. Information on company or business: area of business or branch of
economy; business form; legal form of business; branches; headquarters
of the business in the FRG; number of employees in the company as well
as in the entire business; annual turnover; business activities in
foreign countries; the significance of export as well as of government
customers for the business; furnishing of the company with
telecommunication facilities and data processing equipment; use of
external services.

3. Attitudes and interests: most important personal events in the last
5 years; most important factors promoting career; attitude to
occupation, occupation orientation (scale); most important factors of
occupational satisfaction (scale); satisfaction with income; strength
of personality (acceptance of responsibility, personal opinion
leadership etc., scale); expression of strength of personality;
detailed recording of leisure interests in the areas sport,
do-it-yourself, yard work, making music, trips to opera, concerts, the
theater, trips to museums, reading, media usage, trips to restaurants,
travels, further education and performing occupational work at home;
interest in politics and society, such as e.g. national politics,
international policy, politics of developing countries, European
politics, tax policies, economic policy, social policy, disarmament,
energy sources, environmental protection, the job market, education
policies, technology, medicine or health, the economy, research,
electronics, computers, citizen initiatives, alternative ways of life,
relations between humans, the culture of foreign peoples, travel
information and architecture.

4. Information habits: sources of information used professionally;
observing the job market; reading of job advertisements and contacts
with personnel consultants; job information about friends and
acquaintances; regularity of job information.

5. Media usage: use of television; intensity of magazine and TV use;
city size.