Patterns of Workplace Supervisory Roles: Experiences of Canadian Workers
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workplace, canadian, workers, experiences, supervisoryAbstract
This paper explores the incidence of four supervisory duties and several factors influencing the likelihood of having experience with such responsibilities in the workplace. Supervisory experiences of working Canadians are investigated through secondary analysis of longitudinal panel data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) over a six-year time frame (1996 to 2001). Over this period, a majority reported at least some workplace experience with supervisory roles, with male workers, university-educated workers, and those from management and certain professional occupational sectors exhibiting markedly higher profiles of supervisory duty experience over time. Two trivariate interactions (university education by occupational sector by supervisory experience, and sex by occupational sector by supervisory experience) are identified as important through multivariate log-linear modelling, and examined further through percentage tables. The strengths of associations between education and supervisory experience, and gender and supervisory experience were mediated to some degree by occupational sector of employment.
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