Company-Sociological Investigation of Employees in North Rhine-Westphalia

Topics: 1. Common part of questionnaire: judgement on wage fairness in the company; criteria used to establish wages and salaries; interest in company shares and judgement on recommendations for capital accumulation in the hands of the employees; time worked each week and overtime; shift work; preference for reduction in working hours or lengthing vacation; number of sick days; knowledge about the form of enterprise and company owner; length of company employment; personal position in the company; company size; leisure activity; party preference; commuting times to work and means of transport used; religiousness. 2.

Questionnaire form A: judgement on company organization and one´s own workplace; judgement on work efficiency in the company; contacts with guest workers; assessment of personal job security and the order situation of the company; job satisfaction. 3. Questionnaire form B: judgement on the team and colleagues at work; judgement on superior; judgement on the atmosphere at work and most important characteristics for good cooperation within the team; assessment of personal weaknesses; frequency of tensions between superiors and subordinates; person to confide in in the company; manner of contact with boss; judgement on leadership style and authority distribution; recommendations to improve management; company ties; judgement on company image; significance of the works council; opportunities of inner-company further education and promotion; desire for more independence and responsibility; desire for occupation as self-employed.