Job Control, Cognitive Demand, and Production Responsibility
Measures Job Characteristics.
Sample items
- “Do you decide on the order in which you do things?”
- “Do you decide when to start a piece of work?”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.79–0.85 across reported samples.
Sources
- Jackson, Wall, Martin, and Davids (1993)
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.
“But what do we do when for some reason we have to hire a senior person from outside the company? Like any other new hire, she too will come in having high self-interest, but inevitably we will give her an organization to manage that is in trouble; after all, that was our reason…”
— High Output Managementmatch 50%
“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 49%
“The most common approach to increasing a manager’s productivity—his output over time—has been time-management techniques, which try to reduce the denominator on both sides of this equation. Any number of consultants will tell a manager that the way to higher productivity is to…”
— High Output Managementmatch 48%
Resources: High Output Management · Worldatwork Handbook Compensation