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To examine the different ways in which individuals understand and explain the working of the structure of reward distribution. (N.B. Potential users of this data set should note that this study was an exploratory feasibility study with a rather small number of respondents).

Main Topics:

Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Respondent's occupation: amount of time spent engaged in physical tasks/written work/dealing with people/ other aspects; most important aspect of job; whether work is mainly indoors or outdoors; by whom supervised and type of relationship; whether respondent has responsibility for supervision; whether works together with or independently of others; how speed of work is determined and amount of choice and variation; extent of mobility/repetitiveness/predictability; what respondent thinks of as being a 'complete job' - whether he feels he has finished a piece of work; most complex aspect of job; consequences of a wrong decision; possible reasons for things going wrong; amount of flexibility possible; whether special training/education normally required, and amount of time needed; whether respondent would prefer a job with more/less scope for initiative/ responsibility/variety and interest/opportunity to increase knowledge and abilities. General: responses were sought to sets of statements dealing with such aspects of cognition as fatalism, dogmatism, criteria for reward distribution, acceptance of attainment criteria and class consciousness. Background Variables Occupation.

Quota sample

based on occupational groupings

Face-to-face interview