The ISSP Work Orientations module consists of three surveys from 1989, 1997 and 2005. The 2005 survey is a partial replication of the 1997 study and the 1997 survey a partial replication of the 1989 study.

The ISSP Work Orientations module mainly deals with employment arrangements, job characteristics, subjective experience of job, outcome of work, work-life balance, work centrality, and solidarity and conflict in work relations.