scholarly journals Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802091188
Author(s):  
Daniel Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Quality Characteristics ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Temporal Flexibility ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mobile Working

Recent growth in flexible work which is detached from traditional urban workplaces, including homeworking, mobile working and forms of self-employment (gig work), has increased interest in the quality of work. This article compares job quality indicators between urban-based workers in standard (employer/business premises) and non-standard (homeworking, driving/travelling, mobile working) workplaces. Multinomial logistic regression is applied to UK panel data from four waves (2010–2011, 2012–2013, 2014–2015, 2016–2017) of the Understanding Society study. The analysis finds that urban-based employees working at home, predominantly in highly skilled occupations, have jobs which exhibit a number of characteristics of good work. Self-employed homeworkers, more often women, have lower job quality but leisure satisfaction benefits. Mobile working jobs offer greater spatial and temporal flexibility and job satisfaction, but also exhibit lower quality characteristics evident of trade-offs and divisions between forms of mobile work. Driving/travelling jobs exhibit lower job quality characteristics, especially among self-employed urban-based workers.

scholarly journals Un análisis dinámico de la calidad del trabajo en España. Los efectos de la crisis económica

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cruz Merino Llorente ◽  
Noelia Somarriba Arechavala ◽  
Ana María Negro Macho
Keyword(s):  
Job Quality ◽  
Distance Method ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Employment Quality ◽  
Main Effects

Among the main effects of the current economic crisis in Spain is the great loss of jobs, the unemployment rate exceeding 22%. In this situation, the actions of government aim to begin economic recovery and so create jobs. It affects the work quantity and not quality.The objective of this article is to measure the employment quality in the Spanish regions before and after the crisis. To achieve this goal, we use the P2 distance method to compose a Synthetic Dynamics Indicator of Quality of Work from 2000 to 2010. The study results show a deterioration in job quality in the different regions during the period accompanied by an increase in spatial polarization in terms of levels of job quality.

scholarly journals The Quality of Work Index and the Quality of Employment Index: A Multidimensional Approach of Job Quality and Its Links to Well-Being at Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 7771
Author(s):  
Georges Steffgen ◽  
Philipp E. Sischka ◽  
Martha Fernandez de Henestrosa
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Work Intensity ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Work Index ◽  
European Working

(1) Background: Job quality is a multidimensional and elusive concept that is back in vogue among social scientists and policymaker. The current study proposes a new job quality approach that is compared with the European Working Conditions Survey framework and structured with the help of the Job Demands-Resources model. Two new measures of job quality, the Quality of Work Index (QoW) and the Quality of Employment Index (QoE) are developed and validated in three different languages (German, French, Luxembourgish). The QoW is composed of 43 items, focusing on four areas of work—work intensity, job design, social conditions, and physical conditions (subdivided in eleven components)—which are particularly important for employees’ well-being. The QoE is composed of 13 items that cover training opportunities, career advancement, job security, employability, work life conflict, and income satisfaction. (2) Methods: Data were collected via computer-assisted telephone interviews in a representative sample of 1522 employees working in Luxembourg (aged 17–67 years; 57.2% male). (3) Results: Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the proposed factors structure and scalar measurement invariance for the three different language versions. Internal consistencies were satisfactory for all subscales (Cronbach’s α between 0.70 and 0.87). Correlations and hierarchical regression analyses with different psychological health measures (i.e., burnout, general well-being, psychosomatic complaints, work satisfaction, vigor) and subjective work performance confirmed the construct validity of the new instruments. (4) Conclusions: The QoW and the QoE are globally and on the level of the sub-categories effective tools to measure job quality, which could be used to compare job quality between organizations and different countries. Furthermore, the current study confirms associations between the different components of the QoW and QoE and employees’ health.

scholarly journals Is Finland Different? Quality of Work Among Finnish and European Employees

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Armi Hartikainen ◽  
Timo Anttila ◽  
Tomi Oinas ◽  
Jouko Nätti
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Multivariate Techniques ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
European Working

The issue of the quality of work-life has risen in popularity due to concerns about the economic and social sustainability of European societies. Throughout the continent, global competition, technological change and the intensification of work are common developments which are seen to affect the well-being of the workforce. Nevertheless, European countries differ substantially in terms of job quality. According to earlier research, employees in Sweden and Denmark (and to lesser extent in Finland) report a higher quality of work tasks than elsewhere in Europe. The aim of this paper was to investigate, in a cross-national context using multivariate techniques, whether job quality in Finland really is divergent from that of other Nordic countries and rest of the Europe. Empirical analyses were based on the fourth wave of the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) collected in 2005. In this study we used data from the 25 Member States of the European Union and Norway (n=21,196 interviews). Our results support earlier findings that Finland lags behind other Nordic countries in terms of work discretion and the perceptions of being well paid. Instead, Finnish employees were less worried about health issues. When comparing Finland to Scandinavia, we did not find major differences in the amount of highly skilled jobs, insecurity nor the quantity of jobs requiring great effort. We also examined the associations of the dimensions of job quality to job satisfaction. The results indicated that the subjective aspects of job quality were more important determinants of job satisfaction, and that there were only modest differences in the determinants of job satisfaction between country clusters.

scholarly journals Job quality of refugees in Austria: Trade-offs between multiple workplace characteristics

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renate Ortlieb ◽  
Silvana Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Quality Dimensions ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

Do employers tend to exploit refugees or do they offer them high-quality jobs? This article examines the job quality of refugees from Afghanistan and Syria working in Austria. It uses unique survey data of 316 refugees and cluster analysis to identify job quality profiles. Drawing on well-established job quality frameworks, it considers multiple dimensions of job quality, including pay, job security, overqualification in terms of level and content area, learning opportunities, at-home feeling and health aspects. The findings reveal four job quality profiles with considerable trade-offs or compromises between job quality dimensions. Furthermore, the job quality profiles are associated with the methods refugees use to find a job. The study enhances understanding of labour market integration of refugees and the associated role of human resource management.

scholarly journals How good are jobs in New Zealand?

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Majoreen Amankwah ◽  
Peter Boxall ◽  
Meng-Long Huo
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Physical Effort ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Advancement Opportunities ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Intrinsic Quality ◽  
International Social ◽  
Better Than

Based on an analysis of the New Zealand data in the Work Orientation module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) across three rounds (1997, 2005 and 2015), this paper examines how workers in New Zealand perceive their job quality. These surveys imply that New Zealanders have relatively good jobs, as shown in healthy levels of job quality and job satisfaction. They rate highly the quality of their collegial relationships at work and typically perceive the intrinsic quality of their job as better than the extrinsic quality. A key issue in relation to the latter is that they generally do not rate their advancement opportunities as high. While men, full-timers and graduates have some advantages over women, part-timers and non-graduates in extrinsic job quality, the intrinsic quality of work is more evenly experienced. In terms of intrinsic issues, the rising level of stress from 2005 to 2015 poses a concern and there is no evidence that graduates enjoy any kind of premium in the intrinsic quality of work apart from a lower level of hard physical effort.  

Extending Working Lives? Employability, Work Ability and Better Quality Working Lives

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Maltby
Keyword(s):  
Work Ability ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Preventative Approach

Faced with a changing economic and demographic outlook, this article will suggest the adoption of a proactive and preventative approach to the quality of work and ‘worklife’ for the UK's ‘older workers’. Ultimately, it seeks to explore the possibilities for the implementation of the Finnish concept of Work Ability (Illmarinen, 2005) in the context of the UK policy agenda. It will be suggest that this approach provides a policy framework that addresses recessionary pressures whilst maximising quality of life and the active ageing of individuals.

scholarly journals Nice work if you can get it: the mercurial career of creative industries policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Ross
Keyword(s):  
Creative Industries ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Industry Policy ◽  
The Uk

Driven by the belief that culture-based enterprise can be promoted as a driver of economic development, governments all over the world have developed policies aimed at boosting their creative industries. These policies ought to present some new, long-term opportunities for cultural workers, but in practice they seem more likely to universalise the traditionally precarious work profile of artists. Focusing on the career of creative industry policy in the UK, the USA and China, this paper calls for an assessment of its model of job creation from the standpoint of quality of work life.

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