It takes more than one measure. Capturing the multidimensionality of job quality with job types and multiple job quality outcomes

Employees spend a significant part of their lives at their job. Consequently, work and the time at work will have an important impact on the well-being of large parts of the population and job quality becomes a key issue. However, this concept is not definable with one measure. Following the use of the construction of job types to capture the complex and multidimensional nature of job quality, this study presents a typology of seven job types for employees in the EU-28 Member States in the period of 2010-2015. Next, some consistency is identified with and across the typologies of Holman (2012), Vandenbrande et al. (2012), Lamberts et al. (2016) and Eurofound (2016). In the second part, the relation between job types and job quality outcomes - such as job satisfaction, health, job insecurity, e.g. - is examined and trade-offs between the job characteristics impacting job quality are discussed. nrpages: 55 status: published