Positive Verbal Rewards Scale
Sample items
- “My organization gives employees positive feedback when they perform well.”
- “Actively shows appreciation of employees who do their jobs better than expected.”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Andersen et al.
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Individual words are not the only sources of item ambiguity. Entire sentences can have more than one meaning. We have actually seen one survey of adolescent sexual behavior that included an item to assess parental education. Given the context of the survey as a whole, the…”
— Scale Developmentmatch 44%
“It has long been known that rewards are better than punishments for shaping behavior. A reward increases the likelihood that the behavior just exhibited will occur again, whereas a punishment makes it more likely that some other behavior, and not necessarily one that the…”
— Leading Teams Hackmanmatch 43%
“It may be referred to as pay at risk.[C4, C6, C6A, C11, C12, C15, C17, T1, T6, T9, T11, T12, GR1, GR4, GR5, GR6]VarianceA measure of dispersion (in interval or ratio data) that is defined as an average of the squared deviation of each data point from the mean. It is used to…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 43%
Resources: Scale Development · Leading Teams Hackman · Worldatwork Handbook Compensation