Changing Patterns of Task Discretion in Britain

By D. Gallie, Alan Felstead, F. Green. 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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Is Job Quality Becoming More Unequal? (2013, background): “The only countries where inequalities increased by more than 2 14 The fall away of the UK from being one of the highest on the Work Quality index in 1995 reflects a decline in task discretion that has also been found from data in the UK Skills Surveys (Gallie et al. 2004).”
Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries (2005, unknown): “Studies of the UK have pointed to increasing effort (Green, 2001), falling discretion (Gallie et al., 2004), and deteriorating mental wellbeing and job satisfaction through the 1990s (Gardner and Oswald, 2001).”
Linking HR formality with employee job quality: The role of firm and workplace size (2010, methodology): “They also draw directly on a long series of other studies (e.g., Gallie et al., 1998, 2004) and are thus considered established instruments.”
Skills at work, 1986 to 2006 (2007, result): “In contrast, previous research in Britain showed a decline in choice and discretion at work (Gallie et al., 2004).”
Work design influences: A synthesis of multilevel factors that affect the design of jobs (2017, background): “Gallie, Felstead, and Green (2004), for example, found trade union representationwasnegatively associatedwith jobdiscretion in a nationally representative sample of UK workers.”
Surveying the scene: learning metaphors, survey design and the workplace context (2005, background): “This pattern of results broadly reflects other surveys which have used similar questions in recent years (Gallie et al., 2004; Felstead et al., 2004).”
The quality of employment and decent work: definitions, methodologies, and ongoing debates (2014, background): “…selected employment conditions that are conducive to a better quality of working life is built upon a solid theoretical foundation and a large body of empirical work (Adams et al, 2000; Dex and Bond, 2005; Gallie et al, 2004; Green, 2006; Kalleberg, 2011; Olsen and Kalleberg, 2004; Rose, 2003).”