Job Overload
Measures Job Characteristics.
Sample items
- “How often does your job leave you with little time to get things done?”
- “How often does your job require you to work very fast? How often does your job require you to work very hard?”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.72–0.81 across reported samples.
Sources
- Caplan, Cobb, French, Van Harrison, and Pinneau (1980) (1980)
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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