INFLUENCE OF THE EMPLOYMENT PRECARIZATION ON THE WORKING LIFE QUALITY OF RUSSIAN WORKERS

Alena Fedorova1*, Nikita Morokhov2, Mark Gerasimovich3, Yulia Tyuyusheva4
1 Associate Professor, Ural Federal University, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, a.e.fedorova@urfu.ru
2 Graduate Student, Ural Federal University, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, judonekit@mail.ru
3 Graduate Student, Ural Federal University, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, skintony23@gmail.com
4 Graduate Student, Ural Federal University, RUSSIAN FEDERATION,
yuliyatyuyusheva@yandex.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract

The increasing instability of the labor market expands the scope and forms of precarious employment, which ultimately becomes a factor in the unsustainable development of the Russian economy. The most vulnerable sector of the economy here is the labor sphere, as precarious labor relations have a negative impact on the quality of work life of employees and are one of the factors of social pollution from the economic activities of companies. Revealing the cause-effect relationships between certain forms of precarious employment and the physical and psychosocial well-being of workers is the goal of our study. The paper presents the intermediate results of our long-term monitoring research, which obtained with the use of content analysis and narrative analysis of texts in the Internet network. As respondents we selected the Internet users who posted their stories on thematic forums and in social networks on the following topics: placement, payment of wages, and organization of the work process. Focus of the study is: 1) the workers' opinions made on the Internet regarding their employers, 2) factors in the Russian companies' activities that have an adverse effect on the quality of working life of employees. Content analysis was performed by the grouping method: from the Internet distinguished the negative texts of employees of 25-35 years, working in the logistics, trade (retail) industry and medical services. In total, we reviewed 5407 texts, which were published by the Internet users from January 2015 to September 2017. Narrative analysis of respondents' text messages allowed obtaining a more voluminous picture from the point of view of the qualitative characteristics of the problem under study. As a result of this work, we ranked the toxic factors of labor relations between employers and employees and compiled a rating of the worst, according to respondents, Russian companies in terms of the scale of their use of toxic personnel management practices. The agenda for the next stage of our study includes the tasks of finding management solutions and tools that can prevent and counteract the expansion of the use of toxic personnel management practices within companies.

Keywords: Labor relations, Precarious Employment, Content analysis, Narrative analysis, Working life quality.



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CITATION: Abstracts & Proceedings of INTCESS 2018- 5th International Conference on Education and Social Sciences, 5-7 February 2018- Istanbul, Turkey

ISBN: 978-605-82433-2-3