Job in General Scale
Measures Job Satisfaction.
Sample items
- “Bad (R) 11. Better than most Sv Ldeal 12. Disagreeable”
- “Waste of time (R) 13. Makes me content”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.82–0.94 across reported samples.
Sources
- Ironson, Smith, Brannick, Gibson, and Paul (1989)
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.
“Specifications, which commonly are referred to as “hiring” or “background” requirements, should be written before advertising or interviewing candidates for an open position. They should support the essential functions identified during job analysis to reduce potential…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 40%
“Possible job groupings using natural point breaks are shown in Example 11.5 . Key issue: How to develop job groupings that are meaningful rather than contrived. Key questions to ask: Where are the natural point breaks? How many levels should there be to accommodate levels within…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 40%
“[image file=image_rsrcA3J.jpg] Similar scales can be used for income and prices with the option of using vague quantifiers or more precise category labels. Hippler and Schwarz (1987) made a remarkable observation when they varied the category labels in an experiment about the…”
— Designevaluationandanalysisofquestionnaimatch 39%
Resources: Worldatwork Handbook Compensation · Designevaluationandanalysisofquestionnai