Measurement of job and work involvement

Rabindra N. Kanungoa

aMcGill U, Faculty of Management, Montreal, Canada



Available online 6 May 2007.



Developed separate measures of job and work constructs using 3 techniques: semantic differential, questionnaire, and graphic. Assessment measures included the Job Involvement and Work Involvement Questionnaires, Job Involvement and Work Involvement Semantic Differentials, and Job Involvement and Work Involvement Graphic scales. Data collected from a heterogeneous sample of 703 employees are analyzed to establish reliability, construct validity, and criterion-related validity of each measure. Results reveal that questionnaire and graphic measures pass the tests of reliability and validity. Semantic differential measures, however, have questionable validity for measuring work involvement and should, perhaps, be limited to only highly educated samples of respondents. Results also support the conceptual distinction between job and work involvement. (19 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)


Author Keywords: reliability & validity of semantic differential vs questionnaire vs graphic measures of job & work involvement, employees