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  • 1.  attitude towards org itself scale?

    Posted 06-03-2009 14:31
    Hi everyone,

    I am trying to find a validated scale designed to measure the
    (narrow) domain of "satisfaction with one's organization". What I'm
    after is a dimensionalized satisfaction scale (think sub-scales of the
    JDI) that focuses ONLY on the organization itself as the target of
    evaluation.

    This seems like an obvious and easy search on the surface, but so far
    I've turned up very little. I've found King's (1960) "about your
    company" scale, and seen mention in J. Pierce's Organization-Based
    Self-Esteem (1989) measure creation paper to such a scale, but the
    items aren't in the paper.

    Other than these two references, everything else I've found
    triangulates around the construct: OI, affective commitment, overall
    job satisfaction, OBSE, perceived corporate reputation.

    I feel especially foolish on this one, but have been systematically
    searching for hours...

    regards and thanks in advance,

    Keith Leavitt


  • 2.  attitude towards org itself scale?

    Posted 06-03-2009 19:11

    Hi Keith,

     

    In my recent review of various "targets" of work-related attitudes,  I came across the following article, which I found quite compelling. 

     

    Harrison, D. A., Newman, D. A., & Roth, P. L. (2006). How important are job attitudes? Meta-analytic comparisons of integrative behavioral outcomes and time sequences. Academy of Management Journal, 49, 305–325. 

     

    I believe that the development of an organizational satisfaction measure may have been thwarted by the emergent popularity of the organizational commitment construct in the 1990s.  Since JS and OC are so highly correlated in most cases, there may be a legitimate concern about their discriminant validity, which would beg the question of whether an org. satisfaction construct has any unique place in the nomological net.

     

    Just some food for thought.  Best of luck.

     

    Sean
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    Hi everyone,

       I am trying to find a validated scale designed to measure the  
    (narrow) domain of "satisfaction with one's organization". What I'm  
    after is a dimensionalized satisfaction scale (think sub-scales of the  
    JDI) that focuses ONLY on the organization itself as the target of  
    evaluation.

    This seems like an obvious and easy search on the surface, but so far  
    I've turned up very little. I've found King's (1960) "about your  
    company" scale, and seen mention in J. Pierce's Organization-Based  
    Self-Esteem (1989) measure creation paper to such a scale, but the  
    items aren't in the paper.

    Other than these two references, everything else I've found  
    triangulates around the construct: OI, affective commitment, overall  
    job satisfaction, OBSE, perceived corporate reputation.

    I feel especially foolish on this one, but have been systematically  
    searching for hours...

    regards and thanks in advance,

    Keith Leavitt


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  • 3.  attitude towards org itself scale?

    Posted 06-05-2009 10:46
    Keith,

    I have had the same problem and ended up using the "Firm as a Whole"
    subscale of the Managerial Opinion Scale by Warr & Routledge (1969)

    Here is the reference and the items are attached:

    Warr, P. B. & Routledge, T. (1969). An opinion scale for the study of
    manager's job satisfaction. Occupational Psychology, 43, 95-109.

    Also, here are a couple of papers where I used the scale:

    Hopkins, S.M. & Weathington, B.L. (2006). The Relationships between Justice
    Perceptions, Trust, and Employee Attitudes in a Downsized Organization. The
    Journal of Psychology, 140, 477-498.

    Weathington, B.L. & Tetrick, L.E. (2000). Compensation or Right: An Analysis
    of Employee "Fringe" Benefit Perception. Employee Responsibilities and
    Rights Journal, 12, 141-162.


    Hope this helps,

    Bart


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    Subject: [OB-LIST] attitude towards org itself scale?

    Hi everyone,

    I am trying to find a validated scale designed to measure the
    (narrow) domain of "satisfaction with one's organization". What I'm
    after is a dimensionalized satisfaction scale (think sub-scales of the
    JDI) that focuses ONLY on the organization itself as the target of
    evaluation.

    This seems like an obvious and easy search on the surface, but so far
    I've turned up very little. I've found King's (1960) "about your
    company" scale, and seen mention in J. Pierce's Organization-Based
    Self-Esteem (1989) measure creation paper to such a scale, but the
    items aren't in the paper.

    Other than these two references, everything else I've found
    triangulates around the construct: OI, affective commitment, overall
    job satisfaction, OBSE, perceived corporate reputation.

    I feel especially foolish on this one, but have been systematically
    searching for hours...

    regards and thanks in advance,

    Keith Leavitt