Role Innovation
Measures Role Ambiguity.
Sample items
- “Deciding the methods used to achieve work targets/objectives”
- “Deciding the order in which different parts of the job are done”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.88–0.90 across reported samples.
Sources
- West (1987)
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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Resources: Leading Organization Design · Diagnosing Changing Org Culture