Job Demands and Decision Latitude
Measures Job Characteristics.
Sample items
- “Job demand items: [Job demand items]”
- “To what extent does your job require your working fast? [Job demand items]”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.79–0.88 across reported samples.
Sources
- Karasek (1979)
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.
“As Simons points out, the purpose of brakes on a car is not to slow it down but to allow the driver to go fast (Simons, 1995). Clear parameters create a well-defined space that permits freedom and channels creativity. Clarity of strategy, trade-offs, and decision criteria speed…”
— Leading Organization Designmatch 46%
“Table 8.2 lists examples of the potential areas of tension between global product and geographic general managers. TABLE 8.2. Typical Power Struggles Between Global and Local Geographic Units Global Product DivisionLocal Geographic ManagementCenter sets product investment…”
— Leading Organization Designmatch 45%
“All this may seem like too much trouble, but if the meeting was worth calling in the first place, the work needed to produce the minutes is a small additional investment (an activity with high leverage) to ensure that the full benefit is obtained from what was done. Ideally, a…”
— High Output Managementmatch 44%
Resources: Leading Organization Design · High Output Management