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Peer reviewedHerrick, Neal Q.; Quinn, Robert P. – Monthly Labor Review, 1971
Preview of nationwide survey presents preliminary findings on workers' attitudes toward labor standards problems and job satisfaction. (Editor)
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Job Satisfaction, Labor Standards, Occupational Surveys
Download full textBaldi de Mandilovitch, Martha S.; Quinn, Robert P. – 1975
The relationship between education and job satisfaction has not been sufficiently well documented to qualify as unquestionable. Published research on the subject either fails to adequately assess the influence of education on job satisfaction or is too occupationally and/or geographically limited to form the basis for generalization. To examine on…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Employment Level, Job Satisfaction, National Surveys
Peer reviewedStaines, Graham L.; Quinn, Robert P. – Monthly Labor Review, 1979
Data from a 1977 survey designed to measure the quality of employment in America are compared with data from surveys in 1969 and 1973, providing trends over an eight-year period. The 1977 survey shows declines both in job satisfaction and in workers' desires to stay in their present employments. (MF)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems, Job Satisfaction
Quinn, Robert P. – 1974
The author proposes that four basic questions be answered prior to the institution of any program of job improvement at the workplace, regardless of the problem or the solution involved. Each of the questions may help bring to light some hidden assumptions and, in doing so, may clarify the goals of program development. These questions are: (1)…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Job Analysis, Job Development, Objectives
Quinn, Robert P. – 1977
A five-year study of effectiveness in work roles had four general objectives: (1) to assess associations between aspects of working conditions and indicators of employees' work role effectiveness; (2) to identify personal and situational characteristics that limit associations between working conditions and effectiveness; (3) to begin to map the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Evaluation Methods
Quinn, Robert P. – 1977
This appendix to the final report of a study on effectiveness in work roles contains nine methodological appendixes that provide the technical details of the measures used in the five-year study. (CE 016 655 is the final report.) Appendixes A and B are reproductions of the interview schedules for phases 1 and 2 and appendixes C and D reproduce the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Evaluation Methods
Quinn, Robert P.; Shepard, Linda J. – 1974
The sourcebook of tables presents basic descriptive statistics on all questions asked in the 1972-73 Quality of Employment Survey. Based on the Survey of Working Conditions 1969-70, this second survey obtained data from the same population and repeated the same core measures, with some adjustment. Data for the survey were obtained through personal…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Employee Attitudes, Employment, Employment Problems
Quinn, Robert P.; Baldi de Mandilovitch, Martha S. – 1975
The relationship between education and job satisfaction is investigated and defined in social-psychological terms in this report. The objective of the research was to test the assumption that the better an individual's education, the greater his chances of securing a desired and satisfying job. The authors found a general scarcity of specific…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Employee Attitudes, Employment, Employment Level
