Attitudes Towards Work in Visegrad Group Countries

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the similarities and differences in the attitudes of people living in the Visegrad Group (V4) countries towards work. In the introduction to the study, we briefly discuss the establishment of the Visegrad Group and the peculiarities of the labor market in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Our research was based on secondary data. We examined some questions of the European Values Survey related to the world of work and then compared the results in the four countries analyzed.The database contains a total of 6,109 responses from V4 countries. The hypotheses we formulated were tested using the Chi-square test in IBM SPSS statistical software. The country of the respondents was an independent variable in the analysis, and a dependent variable was the importance of work in people's lives, agreement with three job-related statements, and people's opinion about income equality. In the final chapter of the study, we summarize the conclusions drawn from the results.

Investigating the impact of person-organization fit on employee well-being in uncertain conditions: a study in three central European countries

“…The study found significant differences between the countries (between Hungary and Lithuania and Slovakia and Lithuania), but no significant differences were found between Hungary and Slovakia. All of the examined countries were part of the "Eastern Bloc" and are the members of European Union, but there are several overlaps in the history of Slovakia and Employee wellbeing in uncertain conditions Hungary, they are neighboring countries and are member of Visegrad Group among other cooperations (Kolosov and Wie ˛ckowski, 2018;Connelly, 2020;Ba sa and Ba sa, 2022). It is important to mention that Lithuania belongs to Baltic states, and as mentioned above, according to Jahn (2016), there is a clear difference between Baltic and Visegrad states in terms of the level of "neoliberalism".…”