Satysfakcjonująca praca w warunkach indywidualnej działalności gospodarczej
Satisfaction with Work in the Conditions of Individual Business Activity

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the issue of satisfaction with work – expectations and implementation – from the perspective of individual business activity. The results of three survey-type research projects carried out in the years 2002–2019 among persons conducting business activity in the Lubelskie Voivodeship (a total of 1696 respondents) were used as empirical material. Comparative analysis was based on the replication of variables and indicators. The study consists of two parts. The first presents the definition problems regarding self-employment, theoretical foundations and the subject of the analysis, an outline of the methodology and features of the examined communities. The second part contains the description of the research results. The analysis concerns the values and needs associated with work, determining the degree of their mapping in the work performed, and then the factors determining the chances of success of the business ventureIn order to obtain an image of structuralization of a comprehensive set of the valued aspects of work, principal component analysis (PCA) was applied. The extracted dimensions are used in the logistic regression models as predictors explaining the conditions of achievements: satisfaction with work and good economic condition of companies. The adopted perspective of the work situation allows, above all, to capture the multidimensional diversity of the population of people running a business, as well as strategies for self-employment.

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