Quality of Work Index Luxembourg

The labour market has undergone a number of developments in recent decades, such as the delocalisation of production, the development of non-permanent and part-time work, the introduction of new technologies and an increased demand of flexible employees with varied skills. In order to analyse the consequences of these labour market developments for the employee’s quality of work and well-being, there is the necessity of extending purely economic work quality indicators by psychosocial indicators that focus on the work itself, as well as employees’ evaluation of these characteristics. Therefore, the goal of the quality of work research project was to develop a new multidimensional instrument, which focuses on different quality of work components (e.g., degree of autonomy, working under time pressure) that reflects an altered work reality. The modelling of the quality of work Index was guided by the following criteria among others: • the main aspects of work contribute clear and direct to employees well-being (outcome of quality of work) • the indicators are defined, constructed and anonymously computed at the individual level, • a composite index is created based on a system of aggregated indicators, (on the basis of equal weights), • the collected data is based on self-assessments of employees (self-reported, mostly subjective) • the data is collected on an annual periodicity in one country/culture, • only issues which are related to quality of work were considered. The project started in 2013 with the aim to analyse the development of the quality of work in Luxembourg annually. Therefore, between 1500 and 2500 employees working in Luxembourg are regularly interviewed via computer-assisted telephone interview and report information about different quality of work components. https://www.csl.lu/de/gesundheit-und-sicherheit-am-arbeitsplatz/quality-of-work-index-luxembourg/