Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire
Measures Job Satisfaction.
Sample items
- “Read each statement carefully; decide how satisfied you are about the aspect”
- “The chance to work alone on the job”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.70–0.82 across reported samples.
Sources
- Weiss, D., Dawis, R., England, G. (1967)
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.
“5.17b Occupations differ with respect to status. We would like to ask you to estimate the status of a series of occupations. We express the status of the occupation of a schoolteacher by a standard line as follows: __________________________ If an occupation has a status that is…”
— Designevaluationandanalysisofquestionnaimatch 55%
“For the three traits, the following three requests were employed:1. On the whole, how satisfied are you with the present state of the economy in Britain?2. Now think about the national government. How satisfied are you with the way it is doing its job?3. And on the whole, how…”
— Designevaluationandanalysisofquestionnaimatch 55%
“In summary, Table 9.3 and Table 9.4 had 107 inconsistent answers out of approximately 420 respondents who answered both requests. Some of these inconsistent answers may be mistakes, but it is also possible that there is a systematic pattern in these inconsistencies due to the…”
— Designevaluationandanalysisofquestionnaimatch 53%
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