DGB index Good job
The DGB-Index Gute Arbeit is an instrument for measuring the quality of work from the point of view of employees. The basis is a standardized questionnaire with which employees are asked about their working conditions. A separate institute - the DGB-Index Gute Arbeit - has been carrying out the nationwide representative surveys since 2013 and is responsible for the evaluation and communication of the results.
The DGB-Index Gute Arbeit was developed by the German Federation of Trade Unions and its unions in cooperation with occupational and health scientists. Since 2007, a nationwide representative survey of dependent employees in Germany has been carried out once a year (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview - CATI). The results describe the working conditions from the point of view of the employees. The index was methodologically developed in 2011 and 2012 and has remained in its current structure ever since. Since 2012, the data set comprises more than 40,000 interviews with employees in Germany (as of 2018).
Structure of the DGB index Gute Arbeit
The DGB-Index Gute Arbeit is calculated on the basis of 42 questions, which are structured in 11 criteria and three sub-indices. The three sub-indices are labor resources, workloads, and income and security. Resources are understood to mean design and development opportunities, company culture and the meaning of work. In the area of stress, the employees are asked about their working hours, emotional and physical demands as well as the work intensity. The third area, income and security, deals with performance-based pay, company social benefits and job security. An INQA survey determined which criteria are most important for “good work” from the point of view of the employees.
With the DGB-Index Gute Arbeit, the opinion is represented that “good work” exists when there is a comprehensive set of work resources (e.g. design and development opportunities), a health-compatible stressful situation (e.g. physical and psychological demands, working hours ) as well as an adequate income and secure employment.
This is the logic behind the calculation of the DGB-Index Gute Arbeit. A distinction is made between four quality levels of working conditions: good work (80 index points and more), work quality in the upper middle field (65 to 79 index points), work quality in the lower middle field (50 to 64 index points) and bad work (less than 50 index points).
Presentation of the results of the DGB index Gute Arbeit
The collected data flow into an overall data set and are used for various statistical evaluations according to industries and occupational groups. The survey results are published annually in a report that contains both the current index values and the answers to the 42 individual questions. In addition, each annual report is dedicated to a thematic focus from current labor policy issues (e.g. digitization, working hours or the compatibility of family and work). Furthermore, special evaluations are published at irregular intervals. Shorter evaluations are presented as part of the “DGB-Index Gute Arbeit - Compact” series.
Employee surveys with the DGB index Gute Arbeit
The DGB-Index Gute Arbeit is designed in such a way that it can also be used to analyze internal strengths and weaknesses in working conditions. Employee surveys with the DGB Good Work Index are designed as a participatory and continuous process. When using the DGB index in a company or an administration, the results of the employee survey serve as a basis for discussion and argumentation for the development of work design measures and the planning of concrete implementation steps.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ The Institute DGB Index Gute Arbeit
- ↑ DGB index Good job: How the index was developed. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
- ^ Initiative New Quality of Work: INQA.de - INQA report No. 19 "What is good work?" Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
- ↑ DGB index Good work: The annual reports on the index. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .