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The measurement of job characteristics: A content and contextual analytic look at scale validity
Author(s) -
Pierce Jon L.,
McTavish Donald G.,
Knudsen Kjell R.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.4030070404
Subject(s) - psychology , job satisfaction , content (measure theory) , context (archaeology) , scale (ratio) , social psychology , content validity , applied psychology , test validity , psychometrics , developmental psychology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
This investigation provides an examination of the validity of the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) and the Job Characteristics Inventory (JCI). The verbal content of the two measure is examined, as are the contrasts between the verbal content of these scales and the verbal content of three popular measures of job satisfaction. The Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis program is used to examine the ideas emphasized by these research scales. Both measures of job characteristics were found to discriminate from certain measures of job satisfaction, to emphasize an instrumental and not an affective context, and to possess some internal dimensionality problems.