Survey on corona crisis experiences for personnel management and leadershipSOEP-LEE2: The Linked Employer-Employee Survey of the Socio-Economic Panel Study enters the second roundNetwork spokesman Wenzel Matiaske raises third-party funds successfully
15 September 2020
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The workplace survey of the Socio-Economic Panel Study SOEP-LEE was carried out the first in 2012. Now there will be a second round in a cooperation of SOEP/DIW with the Institute for Employment and Labour Relations (IPA) headed by Stefan Liebig and network spokesman Wenzel Matiaske, of the Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. Funded by the Center for Research on Digitalization and Technology of the Armed Forces (DTEC.Bw) two waves of SOEP-LEE data will be collected in the following four years. Using the question module of the first wave in 2012 all dependent employees in the SOEP samples are asked to provide local contact information of their employer. The heads of HRM or chief executive officers of the employers are then asked about fundamental aspects of their organization’s objectives, environment, and structure. Questions on employment policies and labour relations are the main focus. Linking individual and organizational data render manifold analyses possible. For example
- (changes in) employment histories and social stratification,
- educational choices and human capital utilization,
- capabilities and life or work satisfaction can be investigated.
A core topic in the first of the new waves will be how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted human resource management. Overall the long term changes in labour relations in the context of ongoing digitalization take center stage of the survey.
Linking individual, household and employer data does not only add new variables to SOEP, but a new and independent data source. Furthermore, the project is going to contribute to researching survey methods. For instance questionnaires will be combined with internet searches for testing the reliability of data.
The project will start as early as October 2020. The Research Data Center of SOEP (DIW/SOEP) in Berlin and the Institute of Employment and Labour Relations (IPA) in Hamburg will each employ a postdoc and a PhD-candidate for carrying out the research. A professional clerk will edit and process the data as well as take charge of transferring it to the central archive for quantitative and qualitative operational and organizational data (FDZ BO) at DIW/SOEP.
The Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Armed Forces in Hamburg is strengthening the research cluster OPAL (organization, personnel, labour and leadership) with this project. Researchers of the DIW in Berlin, the Technical University of Berlin, the WZB (Berlin Social Science Center) as well as of the Hamburg Business School, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg and members of the research cluster OPAL pursue the objective of establishing the SOEP-LEE as the crucial dataset for investigating “Change in Labour Standards for Improved Well-Being”.