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Development of the Work Intention Inventory Short‐Form
Author(s) -
Nimon Kim,
Zigarmi Drea
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
new horizons in adult education and human resource development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1939-4225
DOI - 10.1002/nha3.20090
Subject(s) - psychology , employee engagement , scale (ratio) , work (physics) , construct validity , work engagement , applied psychology , test (biology) , construct (python library) , passion , social psychology , psychometrics , management , computer science , developmental psychology , engineering , mechanical engineering , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , biology , programming language
The Work Intention Inventory ( WII : Zigarmi, Nimon, Houson, Witt, & Diehl, 2012) was designed to assess five measures of work intention. Measuring employee intentions is important to consider when evaluating outcomes associated with employee engagement or work passion as research indicates intentions are strong predictors of behavior. Following scale reduction procedures developed by Stanton, Sinar, Balzer, and Smith (2002), we used inter‐item covariance matrices from Zigarmi et al. (2012) and data resulting from the field test of the WII ‐Short Form ( WII‐SF ) in a manufacturing company to develop a short form of the WII and provide initial evidence of construct validity. There is preliminary evidence to indicate that the WII‐SF may offer practitioners and researchers an efficient way to reliably and validly assess employee work intentions