Original scientific paper
Work Values and Job-Related Attitudes in Croatia: What Changed in Comparison with the 1990s?
Darja MASLIĆ SERŠIĆ
Branimir ŠVERKO
Zvonimir GALIĆ
Abstract
This study compares occupational goals and job-facet
satisfaction of Croatian employees assessed in two periods:
a period of severe transition crisis (1993-1997) and a period
of gradual recovery (2000-2004). The number of employees
questioned in the two periods was 1349 and 792,
respectively. They assessed the importance and attainability
of nine job aspects (job content, co-workers, management,
fair salary, good pay, advancement possibilities, working conditions, participation in decision making, and job
security). The results revealed that good pay was rated as the
most important job aspect during both surveyed periods. Low
perceived attainability of most job factors indicated a
profound deficiency in the satisfaction of employees' needs in
both periods. Slightly better general job satisfaction and job-
-facet satisfaction was recorded in the second surveyed
period indicating, perhaps, that gradual improvement in
macroeconomic performance has elicited the first signs of
subjective betterment.
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Hrčak ID:
18093
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2005.
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