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

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WORKING LIFE TRENDS IN ESTONIA, LATVIA, LITHUANIA,
ST. PETERSBURG (1996) AND FINLAND
Balances*
Meaningfulness
of working
Self-development
Management method
Environmental issues
Empowerment
in own job
Information
on work aims
Gender equality
-30%
*
St. Petersburg 1996
-20%
-10%
Lithuania 2002
Estonia 2002
Latvia 2002
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Balance = better direction (%-units) minus worse direction (%-units)
Finland 2002
For comparison, this graph includes data for St. Petersburg from 1996 and for
Finland from autumn 2002. These show that the differences between countries
can be really large. All the trend assessments for the Baltic nations clearly
come closer to those for Finland than to those for St. Petersburg, which differ
very greatly from the other countries under comparison. Only where meaningfulness
of working was concerned were the views of the Finnish wage earners
close to the views of those from St. Petersburg. In this aspect, there is a big
gap between them and all three Baltic countries.
The greatest difference between Finland and the Baltic countries concerns the
evaluation of changes in environmental issues and, on the other hand, in the
meaningfulness of working. Views on the way environmental questions are
handled at the workplace are considerably more positive in Finland than in
Lithuania, Latvia or also Estonia. A third difference that emerges between
Finland and the Baltic countries is that more wage earners in Finland regard
the change in gender equality as positive.
When the Baltic countries are compared with each other, it is seen that the
Lithuanian wage earners take a somewhat more negative view of current
changes in working life than do the Estonians and Latvians. The differences
are large in the case of self-development, management methods, environ-