Open AccessWORK-RELATED ATTITUDES: A COMPARISON OF ESTONIA AND FINLAND
Author(s) -
Ruth Alas,
Vincent Edwards
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of business economics and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1611-1699
pISSN - 2029-4433
DOI - 10.3846/16111699.2005.9636110
Subject(s) - capitalism , work (physics) , perspective (graphical) , democracy , political science , empirical research , demographic economics , sociology , economics , law , politics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering
Although Estonia and Finland are culturally related, according to an empirical study in the electronics industry in the two countries they display significant differences in job‐related attitudes. This paper investigates employees’ attitudes toward society, trade unions, work, employer organisations and pay determinants in the two countries from an institutionalist and cultural perspective. While Finland has experienced almost a century of capitalism and democracy, work‐related attitudes in Estonia have been particularly affected by the 50 years of Soviet rule. It is argued that the differences in work‐related attitudes are influenced inter alia by differences in levels of institutional development.