Workplace relationships in Europe: An analysis by occupation and employment status

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Intangible Capital Pub Date : 2022-03-28 DOI:10.3926/ic.1589

M. Barroso

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Purpose: This article analyses the extent to which two objective attributes of work – employment status, and occupation – influence workplace relationships in Europe. Employing a quantitative and transnational approach, we explore how far the segmentation of the labour market is reflected in the non-material dimensions of working life, seeing the nature of work and the stabilisation of employment as resources that help explain broader dynamics of job quality.Design/methodology/approach: Based on three indicators from the European Working Conditions Survey (support from colleagues; support from managers; and the quality of relationships), we performed a two-way ANOVA to test both the primary effects of the variables ‘employment status’ and ‘occupation’ on support and quality of workplace relationships, and their interaction effect. Additionally, we carried out a descriptive analysis of the mean scores of each of the dependent variables in the various groups of the independent variables.Findings: The results show that workers with more stable jobs, and those who occupy positions at the top of the occupational hierarchy, enjoy more support and better interpersonal relationships, thus suggesting the need to extend labour market segmentation discussions to the relational spheres of work.Research limitations/implications: The statistical indicators used need a more robust operationalisation, able to provide greater empirical validity. Other independent variables, such as the perceptions of job security or the country of work should be considered in future analysis to control for institutional and policy specificities.Originality/value: Research on workplace relationships tends to emphasise the effects that such relationships have on both organisations and individuals, usually based on case studies and individual narratives of relationships formed in stable work contexts. In this article, we shift the focus from the effects of workplace relationships, to the ways in which they vary in accordance with the nature of work and the objective employment conditions.

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欧洲的职场关系:职业和就业状况分析

目的:本文分析了工作的两个客观属性——就业状况和职业——对欧洲职场关系的影响程度。采用定量和跨国方法，我们探索劳动力市场的分割在多大程度上反映在工作生活的非物质方面，将工作的性质和就业的稳定视为有助于解释工作质量更广泛动态的资源。设计/方法/方法:基于欧洲工作条件调查的三个指标(来自同事的支持;经理的支持;和关系质量)，我们进行了双向方差分析，以检验变量“就业状况”和“职业”对支持和工作关系质量的主要影响，以及它们的交互效应。此外，我们对各自变量组中每个因变量的平均得分进行了描述性分析。研究发现:研究结果显示，工作更稳定的工人，以及那些在职业等级中处于高位的工人，享有更多的支持和更好的人际关系，从而表明有必要将劳动力市场细分的讨论扩展到工作的关系领域。研究限制/启示:所使用的统计指标需要更稳健的操作化，能够提供更大的经验有效性。在今后的分析中应考虑其他独立变量，例如对工作保障或工作国家的看法，以控制体制和政策的具体情况。原创性/价值:关于职场关系的研究倾向于强调这种关系对组织和个人的影响，通常基于案例研究和个人对稳定工作环境中形成的关系的叙述。在本文中，我们将重点从职场关系的影响转移到它们根据工作性质和客观就业条件而变化的方式。

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Intangible Capital MANAGEMENT-

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1.50

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16.70%

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33 weeks

期刊介绍： The aim of Intangible Capital is to publish theoretical and empirical articles that contribute to contrast, extend and build theories that contribute to advance our understanding of phenomena related with management, and the management of intangibles, in organizations, from the perspectives of strategic management, human resource management, psychology, education, IT, supply chain management and accounting. The scientific research in management is grounded on theories developed from perspectives taken from a diversity of social sciences. Intangible Capital is open to publish articles that, from sociology, psychology, economics and industrial organization contribute to the scientific development of management and organizational science. Intangible Capital publishes scholar articles that contribute to contrast existing theories, or to build new theoretical approaches. The contributions can adopt confirmatory (quantitative) or explanatory (mainly qualitative) methodological approaches. Theoretical essays that enhance the building or extension of theoretical approaches are also welcome. Intangible Capital selects the articles to be published with a double bind, peer review system, following the practices of good scholarly journals. Intangible Capital publishes three regular issues per year following an open access policy. On-line publication allows to reduce publishing costs, and to make more agile the process of reviewing and edition. Intangible Capital defends that open access publishing fosters the advance of scientific knowledge, making it available to everyone. Intangible Capital publishes articles in English, Spanish and Catalan.