Dear List,
Thank you for your responses to my request for a measure of job involvement. I summarize the responses below:
I. 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.
II. 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.
III. 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.
IV. Frone created a modified (simplified a couple items a bit) and a shorter version of the Kanungo scale for a large general population household survey. Items are presented in an appendix in
· 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.
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.
V. Frone used a 4-item version of Kanungo's measure in
· Frone, M. R., & Rice, R. W. (1987). Work-family conflict: The effect of job and family involvement. Journal of Occupational Behavior, 8, 45-53.
VI. 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.
1. (1.) I'll stay overtime to finish a job, even if I'm not paid for it.
2. (3.) The major satisfaction in my life comes from my job.
3. (6.) The most important things that happen to me involve my work.
4. (7.) Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking ahead to the next day.
5. (10.) I have other activities more important than my work (R)
6. (11.) I live, eat, and breathe my job.
7. (14.) To me my work is only a small part of who I am (R)
8. (15.) I am very much involved personally in my work.
9. (18.) Most things in life are more important than work (R)
VII. Six-item version obtained from the Cook, Hepworth, Wall and Warr (1981) book called The Experience of Work (Academic Press). Items were administered using a FOUR-point agree-disagree scale (strongly agree to strongly disagree with no neither).
1. The major satisfaction in my life comes from my job.
2. The most important things that happen to me involve my work.
3. I live, eat, and breathe my job.
4. I am very much involved personally in my work.
5. Most things in life are more important than work (R)
VIII. Following Adams et al. (1996) and Frone et al. (1992), we used the five items from the scale developed by Kanungo (1982) to measure job involvement.
1. To me, my job is only a small part of who I am. (R)
2. I am very much involved personally in my job.
3. Most of my interests are centered around my job.
4. Most of my personal life goals are job-oriented.
5. I consider my job to be very central to my existence.
IX. Another 9-item version based on Lodahl and Kejner's Job Involvement Scale (no citation)
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 centered 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.
Thanks again for being such a valuable resource!
Cheers,
Vicki
Vicki Fairbanks Taylor, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & SHRM Chapter Advisor
Department of Management and Marketing
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John L. Grove College of Business
Shippensburg University
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