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- Title
An Evaluation of the Response Format and Scale Structure of the Job Diagnostic Survey.
- Authors
Green, Samuel B.; Armenakis, Achilles A.; Marbert, Larry D.; Bedeian, Arthur G.
- Abstract
The article examines the factor structure of the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS), which was developed, by sociologists J.R. Hackman and G.R. Oldham in 1975. The present form of the JDS is the result of three major revisions, and is intended to be useful in both the diagnosis of jobs prior to redesign, as well as in post redesign research and evaluation. In the study the subjects were 114 employees, 56 males and 58 females, randomly selected from a rural southeastern textile mill. The job characteristic items of the JDS were factor-analyzed to determine these dimensions: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback from the job. The dimension analyzed produced different results than have appeared in the literature. It informs that further correlation analyses revealed that the format used in collecting the data could be partially responsible for the different factor structures, which have been found for the various types of workers. The article concludes that a simplification of the format may be needed.
- Subjects
JOB analysis; WORK design; TASK analysis; METHODOLOGY; HACKMAN, J. R.; OLDHAM, G. R.; SOCIOLOGISTS
- Publication
Human Relations, 1979, Vol 32, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0018-7267
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001872677903200206