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Not all that it might seem: why job satisfaction is worth studying despite it being a poor summary measure of job quality:
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In this paper, a positive association between job satisfaction and job satisfaction is found in both academic and policy circles, and one common way of interpreting these data is to see a positive relationship between job happiness and job performance.Abstract:
Interest in data on job satisfaction is increasing in both academic and policy circles. One common way of interpreting these data is to see a positive association between job satisfaction and job q...read more
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Assessing the growth of remote working and its consequences for effort, well‐being and work‐life balance
Alan Felstead,Golo Henseke +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the assumption that more and more work is being detached from place and that this is a "win-win" for both employers and employees, and they find that only one-third of the increase in remote working can be explained by compositional factors such as movement to the knowledge economy, the growth in flexible employment and organisational responses to the changing demographic make-up of the employed labour force.
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Product Review: Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy
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Employee satisfaction and use of flexible working arrangements
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the impact of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) using the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society, 2001-10/11, using the results of panel logit, ANCOVA and change-...
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Gender differences in the hospitality industry: A Job quality index
Rosa Santero-Sánchez,Mónica Segovia-Pérez,Belen Castro-Nuñez,Cristina Figueroa-Domecq,Pilar Talón-Ballestero +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defined and constructed a composite index of job quality, compiling objective job security conditions in a single variable that allows the detection of possible gender differences in job quality.
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
TL;DR: In this article, a social critic of the judgement of taste is presented, and a "vulgar" critic of 'pure' criticiques is proposed to counter this critique.
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Development as Freedom
TL;DR: In this paper, Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe'er contented, never know.
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Satisfaction and comparison income
Andrew E. Clark,Andrew J. Oswald +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to test the hypothesis that utility depends on income relative to a "comparison" or reference level using data on 5,000 British workers and found that workers' reported satisfaction levels are inversely related to their comparison wage rates.
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Job satisfaction and gender: Why are women so happy at work?
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that women's jobs are worse than men's, yet women report higher levels of job satisfaction than do men, while men's expectations are lower than women's.
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Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism.
Paul Osterman,Michael Burawoy +1 more
TL;DR: Burawoy's "Manufacturing Consent" as discussed by the authors, which combines rich ethnographical description with an original Marxist theory of the capitalist labor process, is unique among studies of this kind because Burawoy has been able to analyze his own experiences in relation to those of Donald Roy, who studied the same factory thirty years earlier.