FSD1141 Shipyard Employee Survey 1992
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Niemelä, Jukka (Turku School of Economics and Business Administration)
Abstract
In the present survey, attitudes of the employees of two Finnish shipyards were studied. The survey focused on the employees' perceptions of the shipyard as an employer, on payment plans, and on the changes that have taken place in work organisation and contents. In addition, distinctive work characteristics, impediments in working conditions, co-operation between the occupational groups, as well as production and planning were studied. The respondents were asked whether there were any conflicting interests in relation to the employer. Relationship between the superiors and the employees, the systems of participation, and the flow of information were also probed. Finally, the respondents' attitudes towards strikes, trade unions, and negotiation relations were studied.
Background questions included the respondent's basic and vocational education, and the duration of employment.
Keywords
industrial workers; information transfer; job sharing; labour policy; management; metal industry; occupational life; organizations; strikes; trade unions; wages policy; working conditions
Topic Classification
social psychology; sociology; sociology of work (FSD Topics Classification)
labour relations/conflict; working conditions (CESSDA Topics Classification)
Restrictions
Access to the data granted for scientific and teaching purposes; FSD's access application procedure.
Data Collector
Niemelä, Jukka (Niemelä, Jukka)
Collection Date
April 1992 - October 1992
Nation
Finland
Geographical Coverage
Finland, Helsinki, Turku, Rauma
Analysis Unit
Individual
Universe
Shipyard employees
Sampling Procedure
Stratified random sampling. Sample size 15% of population.
Questionnaires were completed in group meetings during working hours. Respondents were given some guidance on how to fill in the questionnaire.
Collection Mode
Guided questionnaire
Research Instrument
Structured questionnaire
Response Rate
82%
Time Method
Cross-sectional study
Collection Size
Data: SPSS portable file. Data available also in other file formats.
Data version
1.0 (25.1.2002)
Other Material
Questionnaires: pdf files in Finnish
Data Appraisal and Notes
In the data, the numbering of the variables follows the questionnaire used in the shipyard Kvaerner Masa-Yards Helsinki. The data do not include all the questions in the questionnaire: for example, answers to initial open-ended questions, marital status, and team work have been deleted. Some of the questions were presented only to the Masa-Yards employees. For variables q86 and q87, the given response options differed in the two shipyards - they have been coded separately accordingly.
Citation Requirement
The source must be acknowledged in any publication based wholly or in part on the data.
Bibliographical Citation
Niemelä, Jukka: Shipyard Employee Survey 1992 [computer file]. FSD1141, version 1.0 (2002-01-25). Tampere: Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor], 2002.
Depositing Requirements
The archive must be informed of all publications where the data have been used.
Disclaimer
The depositor and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of the data.
Related Publications
Niemelä, Jukka (1998). Kriisin kautta joustavaan tuotantoon: ristiriidat ja yhteiset edut Suomen telakoilla. Sosiologia 35 (2): 104-117
Niemelä, Jukka & Leimu, Heikki (1995). Job redesign in Finnish shipyards: causes and consequences. In: The new division of labour: emerging forms of work organization in international perspective (eds. W. Littek & T. Charles). Berlin & New York: De Gruyter.
