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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Workplace Employee Relations Survey: Panel Survey, 1990-1998

Variable Details

Variableyvis90_1
LabelWhat would you say have been the most import
Responses
1 Pay levels 76
2 Pay differentials 0
3 Payment systems 23
4 Short time working or guaranteed minimum pay 1
5 Hours of work 33
6 Profit sharing/share ownership scheme 4
7 Fringe benefits 4
8 Staff status 5
9 Facilities 3
10 Physical working conditions 5
11 Safety 6
12 Grading of jobs/job evaluation 7
13 Pay relativities/comparisons with employees outside establis 1
14 Procedures (new or existing) 3
15 Equal opportunities 0
16 Employee representation - not union 1
17 Level of union membership 0
18 Union negotiating rights/management recognition 7
19 Changes in negotiating or bargaining structure 18
20 Closed shop/union membership arrangement 0
21 Anti-union attitude by management 0
22 Union participation in health and safety committee procedure 0
23 Adherence to existing procedures 0
24 Interpretation of national or industry agreements 0
25 Union membership dropping 1
26 Time off for Trade Union duties 0
27 Strike/industrial action 8
28 Training of worker representatives 0
29 Lack of co-operation between unions 0
30 Employment legislation, specified or not 1
31 Other legislation 6
32 Economic situation generally 2
33 Survival or closure of establishment 12
34 Level of grants or subsidies or cuts in these 8
35 Level of orders/demand for products or services 70
36 Capital investment 3
37 Economic performance/profitability 14
38 Employment of women or new categories of worker 3
39 Use of agency or contract staff 1
40 Dilutees/maintenance of craft/apprenticeship system 0
41 Retraining/redeployment within establishment 8
42 Recruitment/shortage/retention of staff generally 8
43 Demarcation and flexibility 9
44 Inadequate management 1
45 Productivity/Manning levels/efficiency 58
46 New technology 7
47 Production/working methods 36
48 Replacement/refurbishment of existing equipment/materials/to 0
49 Quality of product or service 8
50 Trade Union power 0
51 Employee consultation 9
52 Job security 20
53 Morale 5
54 Lack of co-operation between management and unions 0
55 Discipline 3
56 Absenteeism 4
57 Restructuring of higher levels of organisation 19
58 Change of location of establishment 20
59 Change of ownership/denationalisation 63
60 Membership of Employers Association or Federation 0
61 Industrial action for political purposes 0
62 Privatisation - hiving off services 24
63 No important issues 46
64 Investors in People 2
65 Other specific answer 84
97 Other vague answer 13
98 Don0t know 68
99 Not answered 5
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationWorkplace Employee Relations Survey: Panel Survey, 1990-1998
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