Indicator Theme Areas

Communication and Influence | Computers at Work | Rewards | Security | Job Design | Work Environment | Schedules | Relationships | Job Demands | Pay & Benefits | Training & Skills | Work-Life Balance | Union Indicators |

Special Indicators
International Comparisons of Job Quality | Gender and Job Quality | Work-life Balance by Region in Canada

All Indicators

Communications and Influence

• Employee participation
• Employee participation as a workplace strategy
• Information sharing
• Receiving feedback on your work

Computers at Work

• Impact of technology on jobs
• Computer use in the Canadian workplace
• Effects of PCs on job quality

Rewards

• What workers want in a job
• Job satisfaction

Security

• Temporary employment
• Job security

Job Design

• Job rotation
• Work teams

Work Environment

• Workplace health
• Dilbert and the firefighter
• Fear of job loss
• Fear of occupational injury
• Stress and hours of work
• Stress and workplace relationships

Schedules

• Shift work
• Compressed workweek
• Flexible hours
• Work hour preferences

Relationships

• Worker's relations with their supervisor
• Trust

Job Demands

• Workload
• Long hours of work
• Unpaid overtime

Work-Life Balance

• Overall work-life balance
• How work-life conflict affects organizations
• Work pressures affect families
• How work-life balance impacts individuals
• Solutions to work-life imbalance

Pay and Benefits

• Profit sharing
• Merit
• Satisfaction with pay
• Working for low wages

Training and Skills

• Skill use
• Opportunities for skills development
• Workplace training
• Do workers get the training they need?

Union Indicators

• Union membership
• Unpaid overtime
• Wages and benefits
• Other kinds of collective organization

Special Indicators

International Comparisons of Job Quality

• Health and well-being
• Skills development
• Career and employment security
• Reconciliation of working and non-working life
• Satisfaction with working conditions

Gender and Job Quality

• Highly valued job features
• Job value scales
• Job quality deficits
• Technology and job quality

Work-life Balance by Region in Canada

• The work environment
• Work-life conflict
• Family outcomes
• Organizational outcomes (forthcoming)
• Employee well-being (forthcoming)

The data for these indicators have been drawn from a variety of sources, including:

• The Changing Employment Relationships Survey by Canadian Policy Research Networks and EKOS Research Associates.
• Rethinking Work by EKOS Research Associates & The Graham Lowe Group.
• Statistics Canada surveys (e.g. Labour Force Survey and Workplace and Employee Survey).
• Other secondary data sources.
• Specific information on data sources are noted on each indicator page under “Sources and Technical Information."