Taking Charge
Measures Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB).
Sample items
- “This person often tries to adopt improved procedures for doing his or her job”
- “This person often tries to bring about improved procedures for the work unit or department”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.93–0.95 across reported samples.
Sources
- Morrison and Phelps (1999)
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.
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