Interrelation of social factors and satisfaction with working conditions
The essence and latent structure of satisfaction with working conditions is analyzed on the basis the results of author's empirical studies. It is shown that satisfaction with working conditions is closely related to the place of a person in the social hierarchy, even if it is not clearly perceived by people. The technique of correlation of explicit and latent variables is tested. Satisfaction with external factors (wages, career, prestige) and internal factors (content, conditions, tension) are in a competitive relationship. According to two different mass studies, united by common tools and location (Tyumen region) in 2013 and 2017, a stable latent structure of satisfaction with working conditions was singled out. The hierarchy of motives is strongly influenced by external economic and social conditions, and it is stable with regard to the specific content of labor and gender. The most elastic in terms of external influences, as it should be, is the latent variable of satisfaction with external working conditions (wages, career, prestige). The least elastic is the latent variable, reflecting the need for self-realization. Differences between periods reflect differences in the hierarchy of external and internal causes of labor mobility or preservation of job. In the crisis period, under pressure from the external environment, the satisfaction of material needs comes first, while the economic situation improves, society returns to the "pre-reform" or "pre-crisis" state, raising the significance of "interesting work".