What do people do at work?

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 9 Employee involvement practices

	All	Upper WC	Low WC	Upper BC	Low BC	Service
1. Job rotation	53	43	64	48	60	57
2. Pay for skill	10	6	11	8	16	16
3. TQM/QC	20	22	21	17	19	15
4. Team member^a	26	27	21	28	25	26
Team functions: (α = 0.69)
5. Job assignment^a	20	22	17	26	17	22
6. Task scheduling^a	18	21	14	19	15	19
7. Worker scheduling^a	9	7	8	14	10	13
8. Changing methods^a	18	20	15	22	19	16
9. New equipment^a	18	19	14	25	18	17
10. Selecting leader^a	8	10	5	13	8	4
11. Quality^a	17	19	13	19	18	13
12. Cost, productivity^a	11	12	11	14	12	9
13. Cross-communicate^a	20	22	17	21	19	17
14. Performance review^a	11	11	9	17	10	13
15. # of team functions^a	1.41	1.49	1.21	1.81	1.44	1.26
16. # of team functions^b	5.77	5.63	5.79	6.56	5.75	5.51

Note: All figures are percentages except lines 15 and 16. Unless noted, all statistics based on full sample. TQM Total Quality Management, QC quality circle
Cronbach’s α for team items calculated on sub-sample of team members only. Team functions (items 5–16) were dichotomized for this table such that 0 = no involvement and 1 = team either suggests or decides on its own
^aEmployees in self-reported management positions were ineligible for this item and coded as zero for calculations
^bStatistics based on sub-sample belonging to teams