Work Control
Measures Job Characteristics.
Sample items
- “How much control do you have over the variety of methods you use in completing your work?”
- “How much can you choose among a variety of tasks or projects to do?”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Dwyer and Ganster (1991)
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.
“This exercise is aimed at helping you improve performance and achieve mastery—so if you rationalize failures or gloss over your mistakes instead of learning from them, you’re wasting your time.And if doing this solo isn’t your thing, gather a small group of colleagues for…”
— Drive (Daniel Pink)match 48%
“down on my drinking, and ate more health foods. I became concerned about environmental issues, so I founded an organization in my community to work on those issues, and we’ve been very successful in getting new initiatives going in our town. I think it’s really important when…”
— The Power of Character Strengths Appreciate and Ignite your Positive Personalitymatch 47%
“But what do we do when for some reason we have to hire a senior person from outside the company? Like any other new hire, she too will come in having high self-interest, but inevitably we will give her an organization to manage that is in trouble; after all, that was our reason…”
— High Output Managementmatch 46%
Resources: Drive (Daniel Pink) · The Power of Character Strengths Appreciate and Ignite your Positive Personality · High Output Management