Job-Related Tension Index
Measures Work Stress.
Sample items
- “All of us occasionally feel bothered by certain kinds of things in our work.”
- “How frequently do you feel bothered by each of these?”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.80–0.89 across reported samples.
Sources
- Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, and Snoek (1964)
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.
“It is a result of factors such as the opportunity to perform meaningful work, experience complete cycles of work or finished products, experience variety, and receive feedback on successful work results.[C12, GR5, GR6]Intrinsic rewardsRewards that are associated with the job…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 50%
“People’s biases come out and it’s exacerbated further by their stubbornness. Having said that, here’s a sample point factor breakdown, including the weighting for every factor and job level: [image file=Image00002.jpg] Here’s a sample description of the Initiative and Ingenuity…”
— Pay Mattersmatch 47%
“You will weight surveys in your industry more heavily if you have established a strategy that defines your competitive labor market as industry-specific.Quality of surveys . The statistical analyses provided—participant base and number of cases per job, among other…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 46%
Resources: Worldatwork Handbook Compensation · Pay Matters