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Technology and Work Organization in Mechanical Engineering (NIFA Panel: 4th Wave 1994)

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA2445 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2445
Abstract: Company profile, product structure, use of technology in the company, qualification, personnel structure, production structure. Use of computer-aided technologies and conventional technologies in mechanical engineering, work organization in production. Topics: Company profile: individual company; cooperation with other companies; proportion of tensile processing in product manufacture; production for use within the company and processing contracted out in manufacturing products; expected turnover development, personnel development, competition intensity and demand development last year and in ... more

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 09.1994 - 01.1995
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE)
Universe: Re-interview of the companies written to in the preceding three surveys (sample of mechanical engineering companies with at least 20 employees and their own production)
Number of Units: 1879
Mode of Data Collection: Mail survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: ICON-Wirtschaftsforschung, Nuernberg
Analysis System(s): -
Number of Variables: 313
Notes: The study is part of a panel survey (NIFA-Panel) archived under ZA Study Nos. 2442 to 2445. Companies in the new states were also interviewed. A survey of works councils in companies of this area of business is archived under ZA Study No. 3101.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Widmaier, Ulrich - Sonderforschungsbereich 187, Teilprojekt Z-2, Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Ehlich, Hartmut - Sonderforschungsbereich 187, Teilprojekt Z-2, Ruhr-Universität | Treinen, Heiner - Sonderforschungsbereich 187, Teilprojekt Z-2, Ruhr-Universität | Schmid, J. - Sonderforschungsbereich 187, Teilprojekt Z-2, Ruhr-Universität
Publication year: 1996
DOI: 10.4232/1.2445
Study number: ZA2445
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

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Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2445
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Reference publications

Publications: Rogalski, Wolfgang; Hauptmanns, Peter: Technik und Arbeitsorganisation im Maschinenbau: Neue Informationstechnologien und flexible Arbeitssysteme (NIFA-Panel). In: ZA-Information 33, 1993, S. 115-127. | Widmaier, Ulrich (Hrsg.): Der deutsche Maschinenbau in den neunziger Jahren: Kontinuität und Wandel einer Branche. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag 20 ... more
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Widmaier, Ulrich, Ehlich, Hartmut, Treinen, Heiner, & Schmid, J. (1996). Technology and Work Organization in Mechanical Engineering (NIFA Panel: 4th Wave 1994). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA2445 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2445.

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