In the World Values Survey, the interviewees in the selected countries were asked how important these aspects in the job. In this last post on this series, 3 questions were listed like below:
a) An opportunity to use initiative
b) A job that you can achieve something
c) A job that meets one’s abilities
As for the result, the value in the graphs show the percentage (%) of the interviewee mentioned who mentioned that the criteria is important in a job:
a) An opportunity to use initiative:
80.8% Koreans think that it is important in a job as the opportunity to use initiative, followed by 72.5% New Zealanders, 64.5% Italians, 63.1% Icelanders and 62% Dutch. On the other hand, only 29.7% Czech think that this crtieria is important, so do 35.4% Portugese, 39.2% British, 42.3% Mexican and 42.8% French.
b) A job that you can achieve something
Koreans are highly critical about the job criteria on what you can achieve in the job (91.8%), followed by Americans (83.8%), New Zealanders, Icelanders and Hungarians. On the other hand, only 38.1% of Czech people think that criteria is important, so do 40% Dutch, 46.7% Belgian, 48.1% Portugese and 49% Spanish.
c) A job that meets one’s abilities
High percentage of Korean, Japanese, Hungarian, Italian and Dutch think that it is important to have a job which meet one’s abilities. On the other hand, only handful of British (UK), Swedish, Australian, Portugese and Norwegian think it is important.
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