Personnel in the Civil Service (Career)

Topics: Detailed determination of occupational career and social origins; official and honorary activities; participation in career examinations; vocational training; horizontal and vertical occupational mobility; earlier occupations; initiator of promotions; change of subject area and change of employer; adaptation difficulties and prospects of promotion with career change; desire for promotion and promotion prospects; assessment of occupation possibilities outside of the civil service; judgement on the promotion and evaluation practice in the civil service; assessment of previous and future occupational career; previous fulfillment of personal occupation expectations and occupation desires; work satisfaction and satisfaction with income; occupation of father and as appropriate his employment in a government office; judgement on the job of the staff council for civil servants; frequency of differences of opinion between the staff council for civil servants and the government office management; desired significance of party affiliation for promotions; average grade in leaving certificate of school last attended.

Scales: comparison of employer in civil service versus private economy; diffuse affinity; dogmatism; external calculation; emotional lability; ambiguity intolerance; striving for occupational success; rigidity; dominance and speed. Demography: age (classified); sex; school education; vocational training; occupation; professional position; income. Furthermore the following indices were encoded: satisfaction; participation; speed of promotion; striving for advancement; horizontal mobility; intrinsic motivation; career inconsistency.