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1. Contrast England & Rear's description, England & Rear 1975 (p.61).
2. England and Rear (1975) p. 63.
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In the revision of the interview schedule, I nyonose to ask repondents 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 iten 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.
R. E. Mitchell "Levels of Emotional Strain in South-East Asia Studies". (Taipei: Orient Cultural Survice, 1972). D. C. Chaney Job Stratifica- tion and Unionization" in K. Hopkins, "Hong Kong The Industrial Colony (Oxford: OUP 1971). H. Carr "Frnloyee 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 K. E. Willnott "Econonic Organization Chinese Society (Staford, S.U.P. 1972).
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.
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 renlies tended to be highest among the employees large firms, amongst younger and
of older women and particularily among the unskilled.
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Question 37 on the importance of merit as onnosed 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.
Tackling one's supervisor on one's own was slightly more popular among the skilled. 30% of the skilled would do so compared to 24% anong the semi-skilled and 18% among the unskilled.
Younger men had a greater tendency to leave here rather than younger. women as one night have expected. The biggest sub group difference in tendency to leave was between unskilled (41%) and semi-skilled. and skilled (19% and 24%).
England & Rear (1975) p. 70. This statement choice question (0.34) requires modification. The phrasing "vorker in trouble at work" needs changing to some kind of trouble in general.