Taking the Measure of Work (Paperback)

Dail L. Fields

ISBN 10: 1623962196 / ISBN 13: 9781623962197

Published by Emerald Publishing Inc, Greenwich, 2013

Paperback. This book is a handbook for people who want to assure the use of reliable and valid questionnaires for collecting information about organizations. It significantly reduces the time and effort required for obtaining validated multi-question measures of aspects of organizational health such as employee job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational justice, and workplace behaviors. It helps users in measuring some factors underlying employee perceptions of work such as job characteristics, role ambiguity or conflict, job stress, and the extent to which employees believe their values and those of the organization are congruent. All the measures in the book have been used and tested in research studies published in the 1990s. In addition, all the measures describe the extent and types of reliability and validity tests that have been completed, a feature that organizational researchers should find particularly useful. All in all, this book is a handy tool to increase the efficiency of researchers, consultants, managers, or organizational development specialists in obtaining reliable and valid information about how employees view their jobs and organizations. This handbook helps ensure reliable and valid questionnaires for organizational research, reducing time and effort. It covers employee job satisfaction, commitment, justice, and behaviors, with tested measures from the 1990s. Useful for researchers, consultants, and managers. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781623962197

Synopsis:

Organizational researchers and managers have never had a single easy-to-use resource for validated measures, often relying on a selection of journal articles or improvised solutions to meet immediate needs. Taking the Measure of Work: A Guide to Validated Scales for Organizational Research and Diagnosis provides researchers, consultants, managers, and organizational development specialists validated and reliable ways to measure how employees view their work and their organization.

Review:

"It is well, well done -- I will indeed recommend it . . . this type of work has been long needed in our field."

(Robert J. Vandenberg)

Bibliographic Details

Title: Taking the Measure of Work (Paperback)
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, Greenwich
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new