Production Regimes and Work Orientations: A Comparison of Six Western Countries

Hult, Carl; Svallfors, Stefan

doi:10.1093/esr/18.3.315

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“…Earlier cross-sectional research and cross-country comparisons show that attitudes to work are indeed strongly related to social-background factors (e.g., Stamov-Roßnagel & Hertel 2010;Hult & Svallfors, 2002;Svallfors et al, 2001;Mathieu & Zajac, 1990). As stated above, one central finding is the significance of age: older age-groups are more likely to emphasize intrinsic rewards than younger age-groups are.…”

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“…For example, older people of working age, who have poor health and are in professions with difficult working conditions, are more likely to be excluded from the workforce than they would have been at younger ages. Therefore, a comparison between the oldest age-group with younger ones (where those worst off are still included) might indicate that the oldest age-group is a particularly satisfied group (e.g., Mathieu & Zajac, 1990;Hult & Svallfors, 2002).…”

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“…In other words, older workers have a greater tendency to emphasize work as rewarding in itself, in the sense that it offers meaningful, enriching, and stimulating work tasks and social contacts. By contrast, younger people are more likely to hold extrinsic attitudes, emphasizing external outcomes resulting from having a job, such as the pay or other opportunities associated with working (e.g., Hult & Svallfors, 2002;Svallfors et al, 2001;Mathieu & Zajac, 1990). Three different explanations for the differences in attitudes have been put forward, which I refer to as the psychological, the cultural, and the structural hypotheses.…”

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Ageing towards meaningful work? Age, labour-market change, and attitudes to work in the Swedish workforce, 1979–2003

Örestig¹

2014

NORD J SOC RES

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Ageing towards meaningful work? Age, labour-market change, and attitudes to work in the Swedish workforce, 1979–2003

Örestig¹

2014

NORD J SOC RES

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“…Højrups livsformsanalyse tilbyder en alternativ forklaringsmodel for relationen mellem position i produktionsstrukturen og livsstil og arbejdsvaerdier end den eksisterende empiriske litteratur, som hovedsageligt ser arbejdsorientering som en funktion af institutionelle karakteristika ved velfaerdsstaten og arbejdsmarkedet (se Svallfors et al 2001;Hult and Svallfors 2002;Gallie 2007). Der findes imidlertid kun ganske få studier, som har efterprøvet livsformsanalysens grundantagelser empirisk, og eksisterende studier tager udgangspunkt i kvalitative analysemetoder og undersøgelser af specifikke sociale grupper som f.eks.…”

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Livsformer i Danmark: Udbredelse og udviklingstendenser 1981-2005

Holm

Jæger

2008

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I denne artikel undersøger vi en række forhold omkring Thomas Højrups livsformsanalyse. For det første undersøger vi, om livsformerne kan spores empirisk i den danske befolkning. For det andet undersøger vi forandringer i livsformernes kvantitative udbredelse i Danmark i perioden 1981-2005. For det tredje efterprøver vi Højrups hypotese om livsformscentrisme, som tilsiger, at individer er bærere af én og ikke flere livsformer. Vores empiriske analyse viser følgende: (1) vi kan identificere en lønarbejder- og karriereorientering i den danske befolkning, (2) lønarbejderorienteringen er blevet mindre udbredt i perioden 1981-2005 og karriereorienteringen er blevet mere udbredt, (3) der er kun sket små forandringer i livsformsorienteringer inden for forskellige beskæftigelsesgrupper på arbejdsmarkedet og (4) individer kan godt på samme tid være bærere af både lønarbejder- og karriere-livsformen. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Anders Holm & Mads Meier Jæger: Life Modes in Denmark: Extent and Development Tendencies 1981-2005 This paper analyzes several hypotheses in Thomas Højrup’s life mode analysis. First, we examine if the different life modes can be traced empirically in the Danish population. Second, we analyze trends in the quantitative size of the different life modes in the period 1981-2005. Third, we test Højrup’s claim that individuals can belong to only one life mode. We find the following empirical results: (1) we identify a wage-earner and career-oriented life mode; (2) the wage-earner life mode has become less prevalent in the period 1981-2005, while the career-oriented life mode has become more prevalent; (3) there have been only minor changes in life mode orientations within different occupational groupings over time; and (4) individuals can belong to both life mode orientations at the same time. Key words: Life mode analysis, work values, latent class analysis.

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“…Significant cultural differences in national employment systems and national production regimes are reflected in relative job autonomy (Dobbin/Boychuk 1999) and levels of employee commitment (Hult/Svallfors 2002). In postcommunist Poland, the apparently generic practice of human relations management in MNC subsidiaries is widely perceived as an Anglo-American idea with no direct Polish equivalent (Hetrick 2002).…”

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Homo Nationis: The Psychosocial Infrastructure of the Nation-State Order

Pickel¹

2006

The Problem of Order in the Global Age

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The central argument of this paper is that the global expansion of sovereign nation-states has been accompanied by the emergence of a particular type of modern individual, homo nationis. The general significance of this argument lies in the fact that this personality type, which is either taken for granted (untheorized) or ignored, constitutes an integral component of modern social order. That is, in addition to the constitutional and institutional foundations of the state and its political economy, the nation-state has a psychosocial foundation -a "national habitus." The concepts of homo nationis and national habitus underscore that modern individuals are historical individuals, i.e. they have personality structures that are unlike those of individuals in other historical epochs, and that they should be explicitly conceptualized as such, rather than as a transhistorical homo oeconomicus or homo sociologicus. Many fundamental social processes, including those discussed under globalization, can be better explained with such a conception. The historical-structural context for homo nationis is the world order of nation-states that has only recently finished formally incorporating all other social formations from tribes to the remnants of empires, as well as the specific state-society to which the individual belongs.The paper notes the interest Durkheim and Weber had in habitual behaviour and draws on the exemplary work of Norbert Elias on national habitus to sketch its conception of homo nationis. The paper then assembles further evidence for the existence and significance of national habitus by perusing a diverse set of scholarly literatures, including national culture in business studies, national economies and economic nations, nationalism, comparative sociology, and normative political theory.

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Production Regimes and Work Orientations: A Comparison of Six Western Countries

Cited by 73 publications

References 29 publications

Ageing towards meaningful work? Age, labour-market change, and attitudes to work in the Swedish workforce, 1979–2003

Ageing towards meaningful work? Age, labour-market change, and attitudes to work in the Swedish workforce, 1979–2003

Livsformer i Danmark: Udbredelse og udviklingstendenser 1981-2005

Homo Nationis: The Psychosocial Infrastructure of the Nation-State Order

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