Practice question · Multiple choice
Two departments have identical pay and hours. One runs on fixed rotas set head-office; the other lets staff choose their shifts. Whitehall predicts a health difference. What is carrying it?
Hints
- Hold income constant and the gradient does not vanish. So income is not the whole of it.
- Ask what a low-grade job has less of, besides money.
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A. Job control, which is one of the gradient's active ingredients
Why
Latitude over your own work is one of the things rank buys, and it tracks health after income is held fixed. It is also the most actionable finding in the unit: pay is set by budgets, and who decides the rota is set by a manager on a Tuesday.
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