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Measuring job quality: a study with bus drivers
journal contribution
posted on 2015-06-04, 10:54 authored by Wendy JonesWendy Jones, Roger Haslam, Cheryl HaslamThere is growing interest in the contribution which job design can make to worker health; also a desire to better understand the multidimensional notion of ‘job quality’ and to develop approaches to measuring this. This paper reviews concepts of ‘job quality’ and ‘good jobs’ and examines these issues in the work of bus drivers, an occupational group commonly reported as having poor health and poor working conditions. The DGB-Index (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Good Work Index), a tool used recently in Germany for measuring job quality, was translated and administered to a sample of UK bus drivers (n = 381). It found job quality to be significantly lower than that for a group of non-drivers in the same organisation; and better than that for a sample of German bus drivers. We conclude that the DGB-Index is an effective tool for measuring job quality and providing feedback to employers; and could be used to compare job quality between organisations or internationally.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
APPLIED ERGONOMICSVolume
45Issue
6Pages
1641 - 1648 (8)Citation
JONES, W., HASLAM, R. and HASLAM, R., 2014. Measuring job quality: a study with bus drivers. Applied Ergonomics, 45 (6), pp. 1641 - 1648.Publisher
© Elsevier Ltd and The Ergonomics SocietyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Applied Ergonomics [© Elsevier Ltd and The Ergonomics Society]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2014.05.015ISSN
0003-6870Publisher version
Language
- en