Taking the Measure of Work: A Guide to Validated Scales for Organizational Research and Diagnosis - Hardcover

Fields, Dail L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761924256 ISBN 13: 9780761924258

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Organizational researchers and managers have never had a single easy-to-use resource for validated measures, often relying on a selection of journal articles or improvised solutions to meet immediate needs. Taking the Measure of Work: A Guide to Validated Scales for Organizational Research and Diagnosis provides researchers, consultants, managers, and organizational development specialists validated and reliable ways to measure how employees view their work and their organization.

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About the Author

Dail L. Fields (Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 1994) is Associate Professor at The Regent University School of Business. His research interests include measurement of employee perspectives on work, cross-cultural management, human resource management strategies and leadership and values in organizations. He has published research studies in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of organizational Behavior, Educational and Psychological Measurement, and The International Journal of Human Resource Management. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. Prior to beginning an academic career in 1994, he was a management executive with MCI Communications Corp. and a management consultant with Touche Ross & Co.

 

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PREFACE

This book grew out of frustrations I had experienced over years of working as a consultant and manager trying to locate validated and reliable ways to measure aspects of how employees view their work and their organization. Frequently, managers disagreed about what is ailing an organization and the only way to get to the "real story" is to get information from workers. But choosing what to ask proved to be a time-consuming and painful task. Consultants and managers were faced with a choice of digging through journals of organizational studies to find proven measures, or more likely, throwing up their hands and "cooking up" some questions to meet the immediate need. Later, in the academic research world, I found that researchers faced exactly the same problem when trying to design a questionnaire. After more than 60 years of documented organizational studies, it just should not be so difficult to locate validated measures for employee surveys, diagnostic inquiries, or research studies of organizational members. And that is the purpose of this book--to make life easier for those who want to measure how employees think and feel about work and organizations. I designed this book as a handy tool for researchers, consultants, managers, and organizational development specialists to efficiently obtain reliable and valid information about how employees view their jobs and organizations.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761924256
• ISBN 13: 9780761924258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 327