Job Characteristics Inventory
Measures Job Characteristics.
Sample items
- “How much variety is there in your job?”
- “How much are you left on your own to do your own work?”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Sims, Szilagyi, and Keller (1976)
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.
“It is a result of factors such as the opportunity to perform meaningful work, experience complete cycles of work or finished products, experience variety, and receive feedback on successful work results.[C12, GR5, GR6]Intrinsic rewardsRewards that are associated with the job…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 51%
“However, it is time-consuming to develop. The latter approach not only is quicker and easier to develop, but it also has the advantage in human resources planning because it allows any employee to be compared with any job. The following are illustrative traits: • Relationships…”
— The Compensation Handbook (6th ed.)match 49%
“Example 1Assume that a small, new company wants to identify what characteristics its employees believe are important for their coworkers to have. They believe that identifying and rewarding widely valued characteristics will play an important part in cultivating a harmonious and…”
— Scale Developmentmatch 48%
Resources: Worldatwork Handbook Compensation · The Compensation Handbook (6th ed.) · Scale Development