Work-Specific Control Problems
Measures Work Stress.
Sample items
- “Workload demands items: [Workload demands items]”
- “My supervisor makes poorly planned changes that directly affect me [Workload demands items]”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Remondet and Hansson (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.
“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 50%
“That is how it should work for teams in any organization. A team that encounters gaps in members’ knowledge or skills that are impeding its work should at least be able to tap their organization’s educational or consultative resources to close those gaps and, ideally, to expand…”
— Leading Teams Hackmanmatch 47%
“Gaining Union SupportIn a union environment, gaining the union’s cooperation and support is always important. However, even without that support, management has the right to collect important information about jobs. Fortunately, union support frequently is forthcoming because…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 46%
Resources: High Output Management · Leading Teams Hackman · Worldatwork Handbook Compensation