The quality of methodology sections is the result of interaction between academic cultures of data sharing, effective application of rules, academic excellence and good quality Research Data Management (RDM).This data set is based on the coding of 66 published empirical articles that used data from at least one wave of the European Values Survey (http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.11005) and was published at least in pre-print form between 1984 and 2013. It tests for an article describing the methodology of data collection.
The dataset targeted German citizens during the first weeks of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Survey includes closed as well as open questions covering a broad spectrum of themes related to the crisis. Alongside with some background information, the survey asked the participants how their behavior changed during the crisis, how they feel (focus on loneliness), threat perception and who is responsible to stop the crisis, news consumption, trust in information sources, solidarity and attitudes towards vaccinations. In contrast to the unrestricted dataset (https://doi.org/10.7802/2033), this one includes two open questions that are concerned with the individuals social perception and political attitudes.
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You can apply for access for academic purposes, provided that you are writing your doctoral thesis or have already obtained a doctoral degree. Otherwise, please use the unrestricted dataset: https://doi.org/10.7802/2033
This study examines the spread of employee participation in profits and capital in Switzerland and the models of participation systems. It also examines how different wage models are assessed by employees. Among other things, the study should provide representative information on the proportion of companies in Switzerland whose employees participate directly in profits or capital, how high this financial participation is, how and at what time intervals the participation is distributed, who finances the income tax and the social security of the participations and where companies see the decisive advantages and obstacles to employee profit or capital participation. For this purpose, 3,000 companies throughout Switzerland are surveyed in writing. The experiences and opinions of the managers of companies are collected. A second survey of salaried employees will be carried out to broaden the picture of the opinions of managers with the perspective of employees. For this purpose, 1000 people in German-speaking Switzerland will be interviewed by telephone. The study takes into account the data of salaried employees. The structure of the questions in the telephone survey is largely based on the company survey, so that comparisons can be made between the two studies. The study provides information on the distribution and structuring of wage forms in Switzerland. The focus is on the following questions: - How do employees in Switzerland rate performance-related pay? What is their attitude towards profit-sharing? - What effect do incentive wages and profit-sharing have on employees? - Are employees who are remunerated according to performance or success more satisfied employees?
This study examines the spread of employee participation in profits and capital in Switzerland and the models of participation systems. It also examines how different wage models are assessed by employees. Among other things, the study should provide representative information on the proportion of companies in Switzerland whose employees participate directly in profits or capital, how high this financial participation is, how and at what time intervals the participation is distributed, who finances the income tax and the social security of the participations and where companies see the decisive advantages and obstacles to employee profit or capital participation. For this purpose, 3,000 companies throughout Switzerland are surveyed in writing. The experiences and opinions of the managers of companies are collected. A second survey of salaried employees will be carried out to broaden the picture of the opinions of managers with the perspective of employees. For this purpose, 1000 people in German-speaking Switzerland will be interviewed by telephone. The study takes into account the data of salaried employees. The structure of the questions in the telephone survey is largely based on the company survey, so that comparisons can be made between the two studies. The study provides information on the distribution and structuring of wage forms in Switzerland. The focus is on the following questions: - How do employees in Switzerland rate performance-related pay? What is their attitude towards profit-sharing? - What effect do incentive wages and profit-sharing have on employees? - Are employees who are remunerated according to performance or success more satisfied employees?
The objective of this project (part of the National Research Programme 43, "Education and Employment") is to shed light on the relationship between work and identity under the condition of current changes in labour relations. On the one hand, it examines how identities change when continuity in employment in a profession is no longer given and learning becomes a permanent requirement for people. On the other hand, it must be determined what role identity plays in the process of acquiring new qualifications in in-company training or as a formal qualification, embarking on a new professional direction or opening up a new field within the current occupation. In this context, education is addressed through personal educational history, job-related qualification requirements and further professional training. The project proceeds in three methodological steps. In the first phase, biographical interviews will be conducted with 59 people who have had a continuous or discontinuous career. The analysis focuses on the individual constructions of professional biography and identity. In the second stage, expert interviews and document analyses on personnel policy, further training and work organisation will be conducted in 14 companies, which provide varying degrees of flexibility in their work. In addition, employees are interviewed in writing; the questions are derived from the types established in the first phase and the organization-specific conditions. The evaluations serve to examine types of interrelationships between professional development and identity development and to concretise company measures to support an identity-promoting approach to work flexibilisation. In the third phase, measures are developed in cooperation with the studied companies with the aim of negotiating a fair "psychological contract". In the interest of active knowledge transfer, contact with educational institutions is sought at an early stage so that possible consequences can be discussed with them on an ongoing basis. In addition to practical orientation, the theoretical goal is to discuss the existing criticism of the research area of work and identity, e.g. the assumption of the stability of both work and identity as well as the neglect of the ecological perspective, and to integrate it into an expanded concept.
The situation in the German-speaking part of Switzerland is known as "medial diglossia". In spoken language, different alemannic dialects are used, while Standard High German is the medium in written language. These dialects vary linguistically as well as in their sociolinguistic status. The dialects of urban areas are used by many speakers and are considered to be comprehensible for everyone. The dialects of peripheral areas are spoken by few persons and are regarded as difficult to understand. We focus on the question if and how migrants with "difficult" dialects who move to an urban area adjust the way they speak: Do they keep their own dialect or do they take on the dialect of their new surroundings? What kinds of changes occur? How can these changes be correlated to sociolinguistic factors like dialect loyality and social network structure? We are interviewing permanent migrants who have lived in the city and agglomeration of Berne for quite some time and, as a contrastive sample, people who arrived in Berne just recently. While the permanent migrants were interviewed once, the latter group has been interviewed in regular intervals over a period of two years in order to incorporate the crucial logitudinal component which allows for the observation of linguistic change in progress. We compared a speaker's dialect as used in the interviews with his or her source dialect as well as with the target dialect, with the corpus of the Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland serving as authoratative reference. Based on the assumption that every speaker has recourse to a linguistic repertoire which can be adapted consciously or subconsciously to serve the felt needs in a particular situation, we scrutinize dialectal variation in the speech of both long-term and recent migrants in two dimensions: during one interview session, i.e. within a 60-80 minute time frame during which various levels of familiarity and formality of and emotional involvement in the interview are created (both naturally as well as by conscious strategies on the part of the interviewer), and longitudinally, i.e. over the period of two years for recent migrants and x years for longterm migrants (where x>3). We expect to find a correlation between the degree of dialect loyalty on the one hand and the intensity of the contacts to the place of origin as well as characteristics of the social networks on the other hand. We presume that persons with a high degree of dialect loyalty keep closer ties to their native place and have more contacts to fellow migrants from the same native place than persons with a low degree of dialect loyalty. Our corpus consists of roughly 150 narrative interviews with a length of approximately 80 minutes each, 150 written questionnaires to document socio-biographical information as well as relevant information on social networks and attitudes towards dialects. Three kinds of transcriptions of these data are available: Keyword content transcriptions, discourse analytical transcriptions using an adapted version of the Dieth system for the writing of Swiss German dialects, and selective phonetic transcriptions using IPA. Keywords: sociolinguistics, dialectology, dialect loyality, dialect change, languages in contact, loyality, variation grammar, social networks
