Social-Structural Conditions for Increase in Efficiency of Mental Work 1984

Social structures of research intelligentsia, in particular
achievement-oriented interests and attitudes, level of achievement as
well as selected working and living conditions.
Topics: Technical degree earned; academic graduation; appointments,
functions and honorary titles; supplemental qualifications; course of
path of education from school to college; practical year before
studies; studies abroad; current further education and objective
sought; work task; professional position; time expended for technical
tasks, qualification, management duties, teaching activity, social
work and for scientific-technical work; agreement of qualification
level and requirements of job; exploitation of capacity to achieve;
professional goals sought (scale); structuring scientific-technical
work (scale); weekly overtime; degree of publication opportunities;
number of publications; possibility of patent registrations; number
of patent registrations; innovator activity; attending technical
conferences; presentation of research results at technical
conferences; experiences abroad; level of forms of result; level of
device equipment at work; availability of existing research
technology; change of research technology in the last 5 years;
importance and availability of sources of information for dealing
with the work task; necessity and opportunity to introduce one's own
concepts in decision-making processes (scale); degree of expression
of characteristics of job atmosphere; influence of leader; importance
and expression of occupation characteristics (scale); sense of
well-being in work collective; stand and opinion on members of
research intelligentsia (scale); importance of selected cultural
activities; interest in cultural questions and selections; preferred
leisure activities; party membership; participation in social
organizations; honorary social functions; time expended for social
activity; qualification of parents and partner; degree of one's own
professional employment and of partner; personal shift work and that
of partner; influence of parental home on education path; length of
current occupation; final evaluation in the individual education
segments; occupation of parents and partner; occupational family
traditions; education wish for children; government awards; condition
of health; achievement-based pay; connection of income and
achievement; forms of achievement-based incentive; stand on enforcing
the achievement principle (scale); number and ages of children;
residential status; place of residence; the route to work;
satisfaction with residence and residential area; living space;
study; possession of consumer goods; car possession; yard or property
possession; additional income.