THEItaly a country divided in half is confirmed quality of work.
Promoted the quality to north center while while continues to be back in Noon, between women and young.
This is what emerges from one Research ofNational Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies (INAPP) on businesses and workers. The XNUMXth INAPP survey on “Work quality” it involved over 15 employees (over 17 years of age) and 5 businesses nationwide.
THEItaly is placed halfway between European countries where the quality of work is higher, such as the Scandinavian countries Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the countries of Eastern Europe which are at the bottom of the ranking especially for poor protection in the labor market and working environment (OECD).
The results of the survey
24% of workers receive a risk your own health in the workplace, given that it is growing in the South (28%) and among civil servants (30%).
A third of workers (37%) said they have none flexibility with respect to hours, with a more marked increase among women (42%) especially if employed in the public sector (50%).
Critical element for workers is theimmobility in professional careers, which involves 69% of employed people and has even higher values among civil servants and young people aged 18-34 (73%).
Another factor of discussion is the growing routinization of work activities, which particularly concerns workers in the South, where 71% of employed people declare that they carry out mainly repetitive activities and those employed in very small production realities (1-5 workers) (68%).
Human resource management and innovation to improve the quality of work
Una top quality of work comes from a improvement of human resources management and by ' innovation. About the 8% of the Italian companies, he saw increase its competitiveness in the markets and at the same time the quality of work for its employees following improvements in these two fields. These companies are also characterized by alarge participation both in activity planning (54,1% of cases), which in the discussion of organizational changes (73,6%) and attention to the topic of life work balance (81% of companies consider the work-life balance to be the responsibility of the company).
The changes and innovations in these businesses have spawned in the Present in several = 85% of cases aincrease in productivity and in 78% turnover and in about Present in several = 70% some cases a increase both of well-being that of the motivation of workers. In addition, the workers have also achieved a greater job stability (in 91% of them there are no fixed-term workers, and in 78% of cases the precariousness leads to the subsequent stabilization).
"I results of the survey show that the companies which they bet on innovation, organizational change and good human resource management have managed to build a 'virtuous fortress' capable of resist shocks and to generate a high quality of work They are, in fact, companies capable of combine sharing and participation in activities, high organizational flexibility, propensity for smart working and strong orientation towards innovation and change, which have paid less for the recent health crisis. The "Traditional" businesses are instead those that have suffered the greatest effects. There is therefore no need for low wages, precarious job positions, or limitations on workers' rights to ensure solidity and competitiveness for businesses; in fact, the opposite is true” explained the President of Inapp, Sebastian Fadda.
