Quality of Worklife Questionnaire |
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OverviewIn 2000, NIOSH entered into an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation to add a special module to the 2002 General Social Survey to assess the quality of work life in America. The General Social Survey is a biannual, nationally representative, personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center and funded by the National Science Foundation. Using a small group process with internal and external expert teams, NIOSH selected 76 questions that dealt with a wide assortment of work organization issues, such as hours of work, workload, worker autonomy, layoffs and job security, job satisfaction/stress, and worker well-being. Half of the questions in the Quality of Worklife module were taken directly from the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey, allowing comparisons of worker responses over a 25-year period. The primary goal of the Quality of Worklife module was to measure how work life and the work experience have changed since the earlier Quality of Employment Surveys, and establish benchmarks for future surveys. Secondary goals include measuring the relationship between job/organizational characteristics and worker health and safety, and identifying targets for health and safety preventive interventions. The personal interview data were collected in the Fall/Winter of 2002 and the final dataset contains responses from 2,765 persons. Categories and Constructs MeasuredJob level (41 items) Download the QuestionnaireQuality of Worklife Questionnaire |
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