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Organization of Work: Measurement Tools for Research and Practice

Measurement Tools for Research and Practice

Organized by the instrument name alphabetically and listed with there content area(s).

Organized by the instrument name alphabetically and listed with there content area(s)
Instrument Content Area(s)
Benefit System Satisfaction
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Job satisfaction
Bureaucratic Job Structuring Scale
  • Centralization
  • Organizational structure (or restructuring)
  • Work rules
Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ), 2nd Edition
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Management style
  • Social supports / relations
  • Job (in)security
Department of Veterans Affairs VHA All Employee Survey
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Career trajectory / ladder
  • Decision making processes
  • Innovation
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Job satisfaction
  • Labor relations
  • Management of health and safety
  • Management style
  • Organizational culture or climate
  • Performance monitoring / incentives
  • Resources (e.g.; infrastructure)
  • Social supports / relations
  • Change management
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
  • Work-family [im]balance
  • Diversity acceptance
Distributive Justice Index
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Performance monitoring / incentives
Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI)
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Career trajectory / ladder
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Job (in)security
Extent of Computer Use
  • Technology
Factual Autonomy Scale
  • Decision making processes
  • Job control
Farm Stress Survey
  • Decision making processes
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Management of health and safety
  • Ownership
  • Personnel (staffing, development)
  • Resources (e.g.; infrastructure)
  • Social supports / relations
  • Workforce management
  • Work schedules (work hours)
  • Work rules
  • Job (in)security
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
  • Other
FastCulture7
  • Flexibilization
  • Organizational culture or climate
  • Performance monitoring / incentives
  • Resources (e.g.; infrastructure)
  • Teamwork
  • Leadership practices, customer focus
General Nordic Questionnaire (QPS Nordic)
  • Decision making processes
  • Housekeeping
  • Job content
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Management style
  • Organizational culture or climate
  • Social supports / relations
  • Teamwork
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
  • Work-family [im]balance
Index of Organizational Reactions
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Career trajectory / ladder
  • Job content
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Job satisfaction
  • Management style
  • Social supports / relations
  • Working conditions
Innovator7
  • Innovation
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Organizational culture or climate
  • Alignment, diversity, market focus, connectivity, experimentation
Integrated Manufacturing and Job Characteristics
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Quality and process management initiatives
  • Teamwork
  • Technology
  • Work organization systems
Interpersonal Conflict at Work Scale
  • Social supports / relations
Interpersonal Trust at Work
  • Management style
  • Social supports / relations
  • Teamwork
  • Workforce management
Job Ambiguity
  • Performance monitoring / incentives
  • Work rules
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
Job Characteristics Inventory
  • Job content
  • Task significance
Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ)
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Social supports / relations
  • Job (in)security
Job Control, Cognitive Demand, and Production Responsibility
  • Decision making processes
  • Job control
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Ownership
  • Performance monitoring / incentives
  • Work rules
Job Descriptive Index 2
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Career trajectory / ladder
  • Job content
  • Job satisfaction
  • Management style
  • Social supports / relations
Job Diagnostic Survey
  • Job content
  • Job control
Job Insecurity Scale
  • Job control
  • Job (in)security
  • Powerlessness, job change
Job Satisfaction Discrepancy Questionnaire
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Career trajectory / ladder
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Job satisfaction
  • Management style
  • Social supports / relations
  • Working conditions
Job Satisfaction Survey
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Career trajectory / ladder
  • Job satisfaction
  • Management style
  • Performance monitoring / incentives
  • Social supports / relations
  • Work rules
Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire
  • Management style
  • Leadership style
NIOSH Generic Job Stress Questionnaire
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Social supports / relations
  • Teamwork
  • Work schedules (work hours)
  • Job (in)security
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
Nonpecuniary Benefits Scale
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Working conditions
Occupational Stress Index (OSI)
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Decision making processes
  • Flexibilization
  • Job content
  • Labor relations
  • Management of health and safety
  • Organizational culture or climate
  • Organizational structure (or restructuring)
  • Performance monitoring / incentives
  • Quality and process management initiatives
  • Social supports / relations
  • Workforce management
  • Work schedules (work hours)
  • Work rules
Operational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Op)
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Work schedules (work hours)
  • Supervisor support / relations
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
  • Work-family [im]balance
Organizational Constraint Scale
  • Job content
  • Resources (e.g.; infrastructure)
Organizational Culture Profile Item Set
  • Organizational culture or climate
Organizational Police Stress Questionnaire (PSQ-Org)
  • Control systems
  • Job content
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Organizational culture or climate
  • Personnel (staffing, development)
  • Resources (e.g.; infrastructure)
  • Work schedules (work hours)
  • Work rules
  • Supervisor support / relations
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
  • Work-family [im]balance
  • Leadership
Organizational Support for Revolutionary Change
  • Centralization
  • Change management
Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire
  • Benefits and compensation systems
  • Job satisfaction
  • Other
Perceived Intrinsic Job Characteristics Scale
  • Job content
  • Job control
Perceived Union Support
  • Labor relations
  • Resources (e.g.; infrastructure)
  • Social supports / relations
  • Union leadership
Perceived Work Characteristics Survey
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Management style
  • Social supports / relations
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale
  • Power structure
  • Organizational politics
Psychological Empowerment at Work Scale
  • Job content
  • Job control
  • Power structure
  • Empowerment
Quantitative Workload Inventory
  • Job content
  • Job demands (or expectations)
Satisfaction with Subordinates Questionnaire
  • Social supports / relations
Standard Shiftwork Index
  • Work schedules (work hours)
StepChange7
  • Personnel (staffing, development)
  • Resources (e.g.; infrastructure)
  • Change management
StressLess7
  • Job control
  • Management style
  • Organizational culture or climate
  • Resources (e.g.; infrastructure)
  • Social supports / relations
  • Teamwork
  • Change management
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
  • Learning support, handling pressure
Supervisor Practices Instrument
  • Management style
  • Social supports / relations
Telecommuter Job Structure Survey
  • Job control
  • Job demands (or expectations)
  • Organizational structure (or restructuring)
  • Technology
  • Work schedules (work hours)
  • Work-family [im]balance
  • Other
Work-Family Conflict
  • Work schedules (work hours)
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
  • Work-family interface
Work-Family Enrichment
  • Social supports / relations
  • Role strain (or uncertainty)
  • Work-family interface
WorkSafe7
  • Teamwork
  • Work rules
  • Change management
  • Safety leadership