Finding a job that you enjoy doing, that pays you enough to live on and that is fulfilling can seem like searching for the Holy Grail at times, but a new survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has identified the seven dimensions of job quality.
With its new Working Lives survey, the organisation wants to track progress in the UK and support the government to make policy changes that will benefit everyone.
As part of its research, the CIPD has identified seven dimensions that,when approached correctly, can make something a quality job. These are: money, terms of employment, job design and the nature of the work, social support and cohesion, health and wellbeing, work-life balance, and voice and representation.
Findings from the survey show that the average employee works five hours a week more than they would like to, while 30 per cent of workers reported that their workloads are “to some extent unmanageable”.
Another key finding is that almost half of all jobs fail to provide “decent career development”, something that is exacerbated among workers with lower-skilled jobs.
Writing the foreword for the report, CIPD chief executive Peter Cheese noted: “While the overall findings suggest reasonable satisfaction with work and the jobs people do, there are significant underlying systemic issues which we need to address.”
Whatever size business you run in Liverpool office space, you may want to look at some of the CIPD recommendations on how you can improve things for your employees. This could involve looking for ways to offer better career development, or reassessing roles where someone feels permanently overworked or stressed.