Empowerment at Work Scale
Measures Job Characteristics.
Sample items
- “The work I do is very important to me”
- “My job activities are personally meaningful to me”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Spreitzer (1995)
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 can refer to any kind of formal and informal means of sharing decision-making power and influence between leaders and subordinates. Earlier terms for such processes were participative management, joint consultation, Mitbestim-mung, industrial democracy, worker representation,…”
— Cultures and Organizationsmatch 47%
“One potential problem with such business-unit-level studies is limited data as a result of a limited number of business units (the number of business units becomes the sample size) or limited access to outcome measures that one can compare across business units. For this reason,…”
— First Break All the Rulesmatch 47%
“In companies where 60 to 70 percent of employees were engaged, average total shareholder’s return (TSR) is 24.2 percent. in companies with only 49 to 60 percent of their employees engaged, TSR fell to 9.1 percent; companies with engagement below 25 percent suffered negative TSR.…”
— Predictive HR Analyticsmatch 47%
Resources: Cultures and Organizations · First Break All the Rules · Predictive HR Analytics