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  • 1.  Job Involvement

    Posted 06-29-2017 23:05

    Dear List:

     

    Does anyone have access to this measure?  I'm have difficulty finding it!

     

    Job involvement: a nine-item version of Lodahl andKejner' s (1965) 20-item scale.

     

    Brown (1996: 236) stated, 'in practice, users of [this] scale have usually employed shortened versions of it' because it reduces the conceptual ambiguity with some aspects of the longer scale and best represents the psychological identification that employees have with their job.

     

     

    Vicki Fairbanks Taylor, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor & SHRM Chapter Advisor

    Department of Management and Marketing

    225 Grove Hall

    John L. Grove College of Business

    Shippensburg University

    Shippensburg, PA 17257-2299

    717-477-1217

    vltaylor@ship.edu

     

     



  • 2.  Job Involvement

    Posted 06-29-2017 23:17
    Vicki:

    A version of it might be in Kanungo's book "Work Alienation."



    Best,

    Sam Rabinowitz

    Rutgers University-Camden

    On Jun 29, 2017 11:11 PM, "Taylor, Vicki" <VLTaylor@SHIP.EDU> wrote:

    Dear List:

     

    Does anyone have access to this measure?  I'm have difficulty finding it!

     

    Job involvement: a nine-item version of Lodahl andKejner' s (1965) 20-item scale.

     

    Brown (1996: 236) stated, 'in practice, users of [this] scale have usually employed shortened versions of it' because it reduces the conceptual ambiguity with some aspects of the longer scale and best represents the psychological identification that employees have with their job.

     

     

    Vicki Fairbanks Taylor, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor & SHRM Chapter Advisor

    Department of Management and Marketing

    225 Grove Hall

    John L. Grove College of Business

    Shippensburg University

    Shippensburg, PA 17257-2299

    717-477-1217

    vltaylor@ship.edu

     

     




  • 3.  Job Involvement

    Posted 06-30-2017 10:52

    Vicki, We,  Blau and Boal (JoM, 1987) used Kanungo's (JAP, 1982) scale.  It is a cleaner measure of Job Involvement than Lodahl and Kejner's measure because the latter confounds JI with Intrinsic Motivation.

     

    Kim

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Samuel Rabinowitz
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    Vicki:

     

    A version of it might be in Kanungo's book "Work Alienation."

     

     

     

    Best,

     

    Sam Rabinowitz

     

    Rutgers University-Camden

     

    On Jun 29, 2017 11:11 PM, "Taylor, Vicki" <VLTaylor@SHIP.EDU> wrote:

    Dear List:

     

    Does anyone have access to this measure?  I'm have difficulty finding it!

     

    Job involvement: a nine-item version of Lodahl andKejner' s (1965) 20-item scale.

     

    Brown (1996: 236) stated, 'in practice, users of [this] scale have usually employed shortened versions of it' because it reduces the conceptual ambiguity with some aspects of the longer scale and best represents the psychological identification that employees have with their job.

     

     

    Vicki Fairbanks Taylor, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor & SHRM Chapter Advisor

    Department of Management and Marketing

    225 Grove Hall

    John L. Grove College of Business

    Shippensburg University

    Shippensburg, PA 17257-2299

    717-477-1217

    vltaylor@ship.edu

     

     

     



  • 4.  Job Involvement

    Posted 06-30-2017 07:47
    There is a 9-item version of Lodahl and Kejner's (1965) scale in Organizational Research Methods published in 2001:

    Reeve, C. L., & Smith, C. S. 2001. "Refining Lodahl and Kejner's Job Involvement Scale With a Convergent Evidence Approach: Applying Multiple Methods to Multiple Samples".  Organizational Research Methods 4(2): 91-111.

    They used "qualitative content analysis, classical item analyses, item response theory analyses, partial confirmatory factor analyses, and discriminant validity analysis" to derive this shortened version. Depending on your purposes, this might be a good article to look at.

    You may also see on page 91 that "a review of the JI research reveals that many authors have used a seemingly random subset of items from this scale to match various idiosyncratic definitions of JI.", so I'm not sure the extent to which there was any established shortened version of the Lodahl and Kejner scale prior to this article--there may be other versions out there that I am not aware of.

    I hope this helps!

    Dave Glerum

    On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Taylor, Vicki <VLTaylor@ship.edu> wrote:

    Dear List:

     

    Does anyone have access to this measure?  I'm have difficulty finding it!

     

    Job involvement: a nine-item version of Lodahl andKejner' s (1965) 20-item scale.

     

    Brown (1996: 236) stated, 'in practice, users of [this] scale have usually employed shortened versions of it' because it reduces the conceptual ambiguity with some aspects of the longer scale and best represents the psychological identification that employees have with their job. 

     

     

    Vicki Fairbanks Taylor, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor & SHRM Chapter Advisor

    Department of Management and Marketing

    225 Grove Hall

    John L. Grove College of Business

    Shippensburg University

    Shippensburg, PA 17257-2299

    717-477-1217

    vltaylor@ship.edu

     

     




    --
    David R. Glerum, Ph.D.
    Research Scientist
    Department of Management and Human Resources
    Fisher College of Business
    The Ohio State University / Pangloss Industries



  • 5.  Job Involvement

    Posted 06-30-2017 09:26

    Hi Vicki,

     

    You may also want to check out Kanungo's (1982) measure of job involvement referenced in the article below:

     

    Paterson, J. M., & O'Driscoll, M. P. (1990). An empirical assessment of Kanungo's (1982) concept and measure of job involvement. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 39(3), 293-306.

     

    Sanjay

     

    Sanjay T. Menon, Ph. D.

    Dean of Graduate Studies

    Director of India Studies

    Louisiana State University Shreveport

    Office: (318) 797-5247     Fax:     (318) 798-4120

    www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaytmenon

     

    One University Place

    Shreveport, Louisiana 71115

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Taylor, Vicki
    Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 10:05 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Job Involvement

     

    Dear List:

     

    Does anyone have access to this measure?  I'm have difficulty finding it!

     

    Job involvement: a nine-item version of Lodahl andKejner' s (1965) 20-item scale.

     

    Brown (1996: 236) stated, 'in practice, users of [this] scale have usually employed shortened versions of it' because it reduces the conceptual ambiguity with some aspects of the longer scale and best represents the psychological identification that employees have with their job.

     

     

    Vicki Fairbanks Taylor, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor & SHRM Chapter Advisor

    Department of Management and Marketing

    225 Grove Hall

    John L. Grove College of Business

    Shippensburg University

    Shippensburg, PA 17257-2299

    717-477-1217

    vltaylor@ship.edu

     

     



  • 6.  Job Involvement

    Posted 06-30-2017 10:32

    Here it is Vicki:

    1.                   The most important things that happen to me involve my present job.           

    2.                   ®To me, my job is only a small part of who I am.                                               

    3.                   I live, eat and breathe my job.                                                                            

    4.                   Most of my interests are centred around my job.                                              

    5.                   I have very strong ties with my present job which would be very

                    difficult to break.                                                                                                

    6.                   ®Usually I feel detached from my job.                                                                

    7.                   Most of my personal life goals are job-oriented.                                               

    8.                   I consider my job to be very central to my existence.                                        

    9.                   I like to be absorbed in my job most of the time.                                               

    It is a 5-point Likeret scale with the responses ranging from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree.

    Good luck with your research.

    Baba

     

     

    Vishwanath V. Baba, PhD

    Professor of Management and

    Chair, Human Resources & Management

    DeGroote School of Business

    McMaster University

    1280 Main Street West

    Hamilton, ON

    Canada L8S 4M4

    Phone: 905 525 9140 Ext. 26947

     

     

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Taylor, Vicki
    Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 11:05 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Job Involvement

     

    Dear List:

     

    Does anyone have access to this measure?  I'm have difficulty finding it!

     

    Job involvement: a nine-item version of Lodahl andKejner' s (1965) 20-item scale.

     

    Brown (1996: 236) stated, 'in practice, users of [this] scale have usually employed shortened versions of it' because it reduces the conceptual ambiguity with some aspects of the longer scale and best represents the psychological identification that employees have with their job.

     

     

    Vicki Fairbanks Taylor, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor & SHRM Chapter Advisor

    Department of Management and Marketing

    225 Grove Hall

    John L. Grove College of Business

    Shippensburg University

    Shippensburg, PA 17257-2299

    717-477-1217

    vltaylor@ship.edu

     

     



  • 7.  Job Involvement

    Posted 06-30-2017 13:11
    Vicki,

    Kanungo created a measure of job involvement that eliminated the construct contamination that was contained in the full Lodahl & Kejner measure. See:

    Kanungo, R. N. (1982a). 'Measurement  of job and work involvement', Journal of Applied Psychology, 61, 341-349.
    Kanungo, R.N. (1982b). Work Alienation: An Integrative Approach. Praeger, New York.

    A study by Blau (1985) suggested that Kanungo's scale was unidimensional and a purer measure of psychological identification than Lodahl and Kejner's (1965) short-form measure.

    Blau, G. J. (1985). A multiple study investigation of the dimensionality of job involvement. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 27,19-36.


    I created a modified (simplified a couple items a bit) and a shorter version of the Kanungo scale for a large general population household survey:

    1. The most important things that happen to me involve my present job.
    2. Most of my interests are centered around my job.
    3. To me, my job is a very large part of who I am.
    4. I am very much personally involved with my job.
    5. My job is a very important part of my life.

    This measure was used in the following two papers, and the items are presented in an appendix to the 1995 paper:

    Frone, M. R., Russell, M., & Cooper, M. L. (1992). Antecedents and outcomes of work-family conflict: Testing a model of the work-family interface. Journal of Applied Psychology, 77, 65-78.

    Frone, M. R., Russell, M., & Cooper, M. L. (1995). Job stressors, job involvement, and employee health: A test of identity theory. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 68, 1-11.


    I also used a 4-item version of Kanungo's measure in this paper (items are in the paper):

    Frone, M. R., & Rice, R. W. (1987). Work-family conflict: The effect of job and family involvement. Journal of Occupational Behavior, 8, 45-53.

    Mike Frone  

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    From:        "Taylor, Vicki" <VLTaylor@SHIP.EDU>
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    Dear List:
     
    Does anyone have access to this measure?  I'm have difficulty finding it!
     
    Job involvement: a nine-item version of Lodahl andKejner' s (1965) 20-item scale.
     
    Brown (1996: 236) stated, 'in practice, users of [this] scale have usually employed shortened versions of it' because it reduces the conceptual ambiguity with some aspects of the longer scale and best represents the psychological identification that employees have with their job.
     
     
    Vicki Fairbanks Taylor, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor & SHRM Chapter Advisor
    Department of Management and Marketing
    225 Grove Hall
    John L. Grove College of Business
    Shippensburg University
    Shippensburg, PA 17257-2299
    717-477-1217
    vltaylor@ship.edu