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Footnotes
1. Contrast England & Rear's description, England & Rear 1975 (p.61).
2. England and Rear (1975) p.63.
3. In the revision of the interview schedule, I propose to ask respondents
which one aspect of the work situation is most important to them and
hope thereby to avoid to some extent the contradiction we have here
where good prospects for getting ahead was the second most frequently
chosen item as one of the two most important aspects of job choice but
was not amongst those aspects most frequently rated as being more
important rather than less important by the respondents.
I also propose
not to ask respondents for the two least important aspects as the
results in this pilot survey here (66 considered strong trade union
organization and 73 considered the presence of relatives at a person's
work place to be among the two least important items) duplicate the
findings on the previous more important/less important question. For
the moment good prospects for getting ahead will not be included in the
discussion of the more important aspects of work situation.
4. R E Mitchell "Levels of Emotional Strain in South-East Asia Studies".
(Taipei: Orient Cultural Service, 1972). DC Chaney Job Stratification
and Unionization" in K Hopkins, "Hong Kong The Industrial Colony
(Oxford: OUP 1971). N Carr "Employee Attitude Survey in a Hong Kong
Engineering Company". The Journal of Industrial Relations Vol 15
No 1 March 1973. B Ward "A small Factory in Hong Kong". In W E Willmott
"Economic Organization Chinese in Society (Stamford, SUP 1972).
5. It would be a good idea to include here a question on which particular
aspect of their jobs they would most like to see improved.
6. It should be remembered, however, that only 38 of the sample had
children.
7. However, we should note here that a rather high proportion of the
sample, 42, either had no preference or replied don't know to this
question. The proportions giving these replies tended to be highest
among the employees of large firms, amongst younger and older women and
particularly among the unskilled.
8. Question 37 on the importance of merit as opposed to needs in job
rewards will not be included in this discussion. It is not really on
consideration a very useful question and clearly needs cutting.