Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Workplace Employee Relations Survey: Panel Survey, 1990-1998

Variable Details

Variableyvis90_2
LabelWhat would you say have been the most import
Responses
1 Pay levels 17
2 Pay differentials 3
3 Payment systems 10
4 Short time working or guaranteed minimum pay 1
5 Hours of work 11
6 Profit sharing/share ownership scheme 2
7 Fringe benefits 3
8 Staff status 2
9 Facilities 0
10 Physical working conditions 2
11 Safety 6
12 Grading of jobs/job evaluation 6
13 Pay relativities/comparisons with employees outside establis 3
14 Procedures (new or existing) 0
15 Equal opportunities 0
16 Employee representation - not union 1
17 Level of union membership 0
18 Union negotiating rights/management recognition 2
19 Changes in negotiating or bargaining structure 7
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 0
26 Time off for Trade Union duties 0
27 Strike/industrial action 6
28 Training of worker representatives 0
29 Lack of co-operation between unions 0
30 Employment legislation, specified or not 1
31 Other legislation 3
32 Economic situation generally 4
33 Survival or closure of establishment 3
34 Level of grants or subsidies or cuts in these 7
35 Level of orders/demand for products or services 27
36 Capital investment 0
37 Economic performance/profitability 7
38 Employment of women or new categories of worker 1
39 Use of agency or contract staff 1
40 Dilutees/maintenance of craft/apprenticeship system 0
41 Retraining/redeployment within establishment 7
42 Recruitment/shortage/retention of staff generally 4
43 Demarcation and flexibility 3
44 Inadequate management 1
45 Productivity/Manning levels/efficiency 34
46 New technology 4
47 Production/working methods 20
48 Replacement/refurbishment of existing equipment/materials/to 0
49 Quality of product or service 0
50 Trade Union power 0
51 Employee consultation 9
52 Job security 10
53 Morale 5
54 Lack of co-operation between management and unions 1
55 Discipline 1
56 Absenteeism 1
57 Restructuring of higher levels of organisation 4
58 Change of location of establishment 6
59 Change of ownership/denationalisation 20
60 Membership of Employers Association or Federation 0
61 Industrial action for political purposes 0
62 Privatisation - hiving off services 7
63 No important issues 0
64 Investors in People 3
65 Other specific answer 26
97 Other vague answer 0
98 Don0t know 0
99 Not answered 0
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationWorkplace Employee Relations Survey: Panel Survey, 1990-1998