Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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extensive and an intensive sense. In this respect, Latvia's working life has developed
in a negative direction. The trend has been the same in both the private
and the public sector. There are no significant differences between the
genders, either, as regards conflict experiences.
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
13%
CONFLICTS WITHIN A WORKPLACE IN LATVIA
15%
11%
1998 and 2002
19%
9%
20%
5%
10%
Quite a lot
Between superiors Rivalry, internal With clients Between Between groups Threat of
and employees competition
27%
25%
employees of employees physical or
mental
violence
5% 6%
'98 '02 '98 '02 '98 '02 '98 '02 '98 '02 '98 '02
Especially problems in relations between superiors and employees have become
very much more common. About six per cent of the working people
stated that there were a lot of conflicts between superiors and those under
them, and more than one in five (21 %) said that there were quite a lot. The
total of these two groups added together (27 %) is more than twice that arrived
at in the previous study. The greater part of the Latvians experience such
problems at least to some extent, since only 28 % of the respondents reported
that there were no conflicts at all between superiors and employees at their
workplace. In 1998, however, as many as 40 % of the working people had answered
that way. Conflicts between employees, too, have doubled in three
years. What is apparent here, therefore, is a rather significant trend for the
worse.
A lot