Job Diagnostic Survey, With Revisions
Measures Job Characteristics.
Sample items
- “(From Section 2) The job requires me to use a number of complex or high-level skills.”
- “(From Section 2) The job is quite simple and repetitive. (Reverse scored—subtract the number entered by the respondent from 8.) Task identity items:”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.65–0.78 across reported samples.
Sources
- Hackman and Oldham (1974)
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.
“New York: Springer-Verlag. Cronbach, L.J. (1957). The two disciplines of scientific psychology. American Psychologist . 12 , 671–684 Cronbach, L.J. (1984). Essentials of psychological testing . New York: Harper & Row. Cronbach, L.J., & Gleser, G.C. (1965). Psychological tests…”
— computerized_adaptive_testingmatch 50%
“Spies, R. A., Carlson, J. F., & Geisinger, K. F. (2010). The eighteenth mental measurements yearbook. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Stage, C. (2003). Classical test theory or item response theory: The Swedish experience (EM No. 42). Umeå, Sweden: Umeå Universitet…”
— Scale Developmentmatch 50%
“Davey, Z. Z. T., & Hendrickson, A. (2010, May). Classical versus IRT statistical test specifications for building test forms [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the National Council of Measurement Education, Denver, Colorado. De Boeck, P., & Wilson, M. (2004). Explanatory…”
— Scale Developmentmatch 49%
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