Goal and Process Clarity
Measures Role Ambiguity.
Sample items
- “How to divide my time among the tasks required of my job [Process clarity items]”
- “How to schedule my work day [Process clarity items]”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Sawyer, J. E. (1992)
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.
“The downside risks of completely specifying challenging performance objectives are especially great when highly significant rewards (or punishments) are contingent upon their achievement, because they tempt performers to compromise their normal ethical standards.24 During the…”
— Leading Teams Hackmanmatch 56%
“To energize teams, there needs to be some clarity, some bite, some specificity. David Mathiasen at the Office of Management and the Budget did not sit around with his lieutenants and generate an abstract vision statement for his teams. As pointed out earlier in this chapter, he…”
— Leading Teams Hackmanmatch 55%
“Even leaders who are intently focused on providing teams with both compelling purposes and wide latitude about means have many options for how they do that. Among the many trade-offs leaders must manage in setting good direction are those having to do with (1) how clear and…”
— Leading Teams Hackmanmatch 54%
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