Role Conflict and Ambiguity
Measures Role Ambiguity.
Sample items
- “I have to do things that should be done differently [Role conflict items]”
- “I receive incompatible requests from two or more people [Role conflict items]”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.71–0.87 across reported samples.
Sources
- Rizzo, House, and Lirtzman (1970)
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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