Job security, not pay, most shapes workers’ attitudes toward their factory.

Evidence

Using this procedure, it was ascertained that the strongest correlation occurring was that between believing or not believing that one’s job was secure and having a positive or negative attitude to the factory. The conclusion drawn was that being satisfied that one’s job was secure was the most important single factor in forming an attitude to the factory. Following close behind were satisfaction or dissatisfaction with one’s treatment by one’s immediate boss and with working conditions. Views on pay and promotion opportunities, by contrast, were much less significant. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 509

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier rejected-but-notable Frankfurt School finding that job security rather than pay was the decisive determinant of workplace satisfaction. — connects to: Surveying only subjective attitudes let management read worker contentment into conflict-prone factories. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 511; Workplace atmosphere results from conflicts between workers’ social expectations and objective factory conditions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2093; Postwar German workers expected their factory to provide social belonging, not just wages — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2082 (+2 more)
• SHARE: The kind of finding only someone deep in industrial-sociology literature would care about — job security beating pay as the atmosphere-maker.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Surveying only subjective attitudes let management read worker contentment into conflict-prone factories. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 511; Workplace atmosphere results from conflicts between workers’ social expectations and objective factory conditions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2093; Postwar German workers expected their factory to provide social belonging, not just wages — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2082 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The rigidity of worker attitudes depends on how well they relieve job stress #complicates (0.74) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1050
• Surveying only subjective attitudes let management read worker contentment into conflict-prone factories. #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 511