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Table 2: Job quality and work organisation: interactions
Discretionary Lean Tayloristic Simple
Learning production
I am well paid for the
Earnings 50.6 % 44.1 % 31.9 % 36.0 %
work I do
Job/career security
Permanent 88.4 % 85.2 % 79.7 % 77.9 %
Employment contract
Fixed term or TAW
8.3 %
1. Socio-economic Career prospects Strong career prospects 37.6 % 11.0 % 16.2 % 15.1 %
22.3 %
38.7 %
19.9 %
security I might lose my job in
- Job security 14.1 % 19.8 % 26.0 % 21.4 %
the next 6 months
It’s easy for me to find
- Transitions an other job with a 33.0 % 29.1 % 24.4 % 31.7 %
similar salary
2. Education On the job training On the job training 40.4 % 48.6 % 31.4 % 23.9 %
Health and safety
Repetitive hand or arm 44.8 % 62.3 % 74.3 % 55.3 %
movements
• Posture related risks
Tiring or painful 23.6 % 39.7 % 48.8 % 28.9 %
positions
Noise 16.9 % 34.5 % 43.0 % 16.7 %
• Ambient risks
High temperature 9.0 % 23.4 % 26.6 % 11.1 %
Breathing in smokes,
• Chemical risks 16.9 % 33.1 % 33.2 % 14.6 %
dust
• Stress Direct reporting 25.5 % 33.9 % 30.4 % 22.0 %
High speed work all or
Work intensity almost all of the time 20.7 % 36.4 % 45.0 % 21.3 %
3. Working Tight deadlines 26.5 % 45.6 % 39.2 % 21.2 %
conditions
A say in choice of 23.8 % 25.5 % 8.6 % 8.2 %
working partners
Work authonomy
Able to apply your own 57.8 % 45.9 % 16.1 % 24.4 %
ideas at work
You are involved in
improving the work
organization or work 48.9 % 44.5 % 19.0 % 16.8 %
processes of your
Employee consultation
department / organisation
You can influence deci-
sions that are important 40.6 % 33.0 % 10.9 % 11.3 %
for your work
Work-life balance
Night work 5.9 % 11.3 % 18.6 % 12.0 %
• Asocial working hours
Shift work 13.7 % 28.0 % 40.4 % 23.0 %
Not fixed starting and 33.5 % 30.5 % 23.5 % 25.0 %
finishing times
4. Work-life balance Easy to take time off to
• Flexible work hours
during working hours to 72.8 % 63.5 % 48.9 % 52.5 %
take care of personal or
family matters
Nationality 0.8 % 2.2 % 2.8 % 0.9 %
Discrimination
Gender 1.0 % 1.2 % 2.3 % 1.4 %
Source: Eurofound estimates based on EWCS 2010 data.
The long-term investment in employees or dangerous working conditions are of training (49 % in Lean and 40 %
87
of Learning organisations is supported highest in Lean organisations (around in Learning organisations) ( ). Never-
by compensation systems based on 13 % of workers). Piece rate and pro- theless, employees in Learning and
the overall performance of the com - ductivity payments are most frequent Lean organisations also report more
pany (26 % of workers versus 22 % in for employees in Lean and Tayloristic frequently that the skills demands put
Lean and 12 % and 10 % in Tayloristic organisations (around 19 % of workers). on them are too high.
and Simple forms) and profit-sharing
schemes (6.4 % of workers in Learn- Learning and Lean organisations 87
( ) They also report most that the training has
ing organisations). Payments for bad both report relatively high levels helped them to improve the way they work.
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Table 2: Job quality and work organisation: interactions
Discretionary Lean Tayloristic Simple
Learning production
I am well paid for the
Earnings 50.6 % 44.1 % 31.9 % 36.0 %
work I do
Job/career security
Permanent 88.4 % 85.2 % 79.7 % 77.9 %
Employment contract
Fixed term or TAW
8.3 %
1. Socio-economic Career prospects Strong career prospects 37.6 % 11.0 % 16.2 % 15.1 %
22.3 %
38.7 %
19.9 %
security I might lose my job in
- Job security 14.1 % 19.8 % 26.0 % 21.4 %
the next 6 months
It’s easy for me to find
- Transitions an other job with a 33.0 % 29.1 % 24.4 % 31.7 %
similar salary
2. Education On the job training On the job training 40.4 % 48.6 % 31.4 % 23.9 %
Health and safety
Repetitive hand or arm 44.8 % 62.3 % 74.3 % 55.3 %
movements
• Posture related risks
Tiring or painful 23.6 % 39.7 % 48.8 % 28.9 %
positions
Noise 16.9 % 34.5 % 43.0 % 16.7 %
• Ambient risks
High temperature 9.0 % 23.4 % 26.6 % 11.1 %
Breathing in smokes,
• Chemical risks 16.9 % 33.1 % 33.2 % 14.6 %
dust
• Stress Direct reporting 25.5 % 33.9 % 30.4 % 22.0 %
High speed work all or
Work intensity almost all of the time 20.7 % 36.4 % 45.0 % 21.3 %
3. Working Tight deadlines 26.5 % 45.6 % 39.2 % 21.2 %
conditions
A say in choice of 23.8 % 25.5 % 8.6 % 8.2 %
working partners
Work authonomy
Able to apply your own 57.8 % 45.9 % 16.1 % 24.4 %
ideas at work
You are involved in
improving the work
organization or work 48.9 % 44.5 % 19.0 % 16.8 %
processes of your
Employee consultation
department / organisation
You can influence deci-
sions that are important 40.6 % 33.0 % 10.9 % 11.3 %
for your work
Work-life balance
Night work 5.9 % 11.3 % 18.6 % 12.0 %
• Asocial working hours
Shift work 13.7 % 28.0 % 40.4 % 23.0 %
Not fixed starting and 33.5 % 30.5 % 23.5 % 25.0 %
finishing times
4. Work-life balance Easy to take time off to
• Flexible work hours
during working hours to 72.8 % 63.5 % 48.9 % 52.5 %
take care of personal or
family matters
Nationality 0.8 % 2.2 % 2.8 % 0.9 %
Discrimination
Gender 1.0 % 1.2 % 2.3 % 1.4 %
Source: Eurofound estimates based on EWCS 2010 data.
The long-term investment in employees or dangerous working conditions are of training (49 % in Lean and 40 %
87
of Learning organisations is supported highest in Lean organisations (around in Learning organisations) ( ). Never-
by compensation systems based on 13 % of workers). Piece rate and pro- theless, employees in Learning and
the overall performance of the com - ductivity payments are most frequent Lean organisations also report more
pany (26 % of workers versus 22 % in for employees in Lean and Tayloristic frequently that the skills demands put
Lean and 12 % and 10 % in Tayloristic organisations (around 19 % of workers). on them are too high.
and Simple forms) and profit-sharing
schemes (6.4 % of workers in Learn- Learning and Lean organisations 87
( ) They also report most that the training has
ing organisations). Payments for bad both report relatively high levels helped them to improve the way they work.
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