E pluribus unum? A critical survey of job quality indicators

Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz de; Fernández‐Macías, Enrique; Esteve, Fernando; Antón, José María Monsalvo

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“…In other words, they opt to interpret working conditions using sets of related indicators and analyse them in terms of multiple aspects. The work of Muñoz de Bustillo, Fernández-Marcías, Esteve and Antón [50] is particularly helpful in understanding the multidimensional nature that an analysis of job quality might assume. In the paper cited, they provide an overview of a series of different analyses, reflecting on the advantages and drawbacks of each, and comparing their conceptual characteristics and the methodological choices involved ("several important methodological dilemmas").…”

Section: Sustainability and Quality Of Working Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Agriculture and Quality of Working Life: Analytical Perspectives and Confirmation from Research

Gosetti

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:We begin by examining the multidimensional nature of sustainability, a concept we generally understand in terms of three overarching dimensions (environmental, social and economic), and propose that the concept of social sustainability be translated in terms of those aspects that we believe connote good working conditions. Stepping beyond a concept of sustainability that is dependent on the imposition of limits, we take as our starting point the concept of decent work adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and argue that it is possible to conceive of, and even design, a sustainable job within a sustainable economy and society by thinking in terms of quality of working life. Subsequently, having introduced some of the changes we are witnessing in the world of work, and in the agricultural sector in particular, we provide a theoretical and methodological description of a model framework we propose for analysing quality of working life. In the concluding part of the essay, we include some of the results of a research project that investigated quality of working life among employees of farms and agricultural businesses in a province in northern Italy.

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Section: Sustainability and Quality Of Working Lifementioning

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Sustainable Agriculture and Quality of Working Life: Analytical Perspectives and Confirmation from Research

Gosetti

2017

Sustainability

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“…Green 2006;Grimshaw et al 2008;Kalleberg 2011;Osterman and Shulman 2011;Findlay et al 2013). This investigation of employment polarization initially exposed a "conceptualization deficit" (Findlay et al 2013, p 442) that signaled the need for more elaborate typologies of good and bad jobs (see Muñoz de Bustillo et al 2009). Researchers 6 have since elaborated characteristics of good and bad jobs, in the process generating sophisticated typologies of each that are a crucial contribution towards conceptualizing UFW.…”

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“…Green 2006Green , 2008Gallie et al 2004;Holman 2013). The recent literature also increasingly captures subjective components of jobs through its attentiveness to workers' choices, values, and constraints (see Cooke et al 2013), in particular job satisfaction, employee work preferences and perceived fulfillment (Clark 2005;Tsitsianis and Green 2006;Brown et al 2007;Bustillo et al 2009). The broadest typologies therefore capture job quality in relation to individuals' life stages, values, and opportunities.…”

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Unacceptable forms of work: A multidimensional model

McCann

Fudge

2017

International Labour Review

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Unacceptable forms of work (UFW) have been identified as an “area of critical importance” for the ILO as it approaches its centenary. Yet there is currently no comprehensive elaboration of the dimensions, causes or manifestations of UFW. This article reports on a research project that has proposed such a framework. The article first investigates and reconceptualizes key discourses on contemporary work to identify their contribution to an analytically rigorous conception of UFW. It then outlines a novel Multidimensional Model that has been designed for use by local policy actors in identifying and targeting UFW in countries across a range of income levels.

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“…In reality, the job features which are highly regarded in one country may be considered much less valuable in others -for example, for Japanese employees usefulness to society is the most important feature of a good job; whilst within America and Europe, job security and interesting work are the most critical (Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente et al, 2009). A key difficulty when measuring job quality then, is that there is 'no international agreement as to what job quality is and how it might be measured' (Muñoz de Bustillo et al, 2011). In addition to international and cultural differences in perceptions of what contributes to good quality work (Wallace et al, 2007), there are also differences between individuals, influenced by factors such as age, gender and various personality attributes (see Warr (2007) for a review), as well as personal and socioeconomic circumstances (Cooke et al, 2013;Loughlin and Murray, 2013).…”

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Measuring job quality: A study with bus drivers

Jones

Haslam

2014

Applied Ergonomics

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There is growing interest in the contribution which job design can make to worker health; also a desire to better understand the multidimensional notion of 'job quality' and to develop approaches to measuring this. This paper reviews concepts of 'job quality' and 'good jobs' and examines these issues in the work of bus drivers, an occupational group commonly reported as having poor health and poor working conditions. The DGB-Index, a tool used recently in Germany for measuring job quality, was translated and administered to a sample of UK bus drivers (n=381) and found that job quality was significantly lower than that for a group of non-drivers in the same organisation; and better than that for a sample of German bus drivers. We conclude that the DGB-Index is an effective tool for measuring job quality and providing feedback to employers, and could be used to compare job quality between organisations or internationally.

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E pluribus unum? A critical survey of job quality indicators

Cited by 178 publications

References 13 publications

Sustainable Agriculture and Quality of Working Life: Analytical Perspectives and Confirmation from Research

Sustainable Agriculture and Quality of Working Life: Analytical Perspectives and Confirmation from Research

Unacceptable forms of work: A multidimensional model

Measuring job quality: A study with bus drivers

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