Validity and Reliability Test of Work Climate Questionnaire and Quality of Work Life

Background: Test the validity and reliability of instruments research very much needed for accuracy data. The purpose of this research is to prepare a standardized questionnaire a standardized ready to be used for research about work climate and quality of work life. Climate Instruments work consists of roles and work responsibilities, environmental conditions work, benefits earned by workers, conflicts in the workplace, achievements achieved, employee loyalty, work risk taking, and clarity about the direction and goals of work. instruments Quality of life work tested taking into account health conditions and safety in the work, a sense of having a job, opportunity developing in the workplace perceived by workers, space work life, justice and equal rights at work, social suitability and life satisfaction of workers. Methods: Testing questionnaire work climate and the quality of working life conducted on a sample of 45 street sweepers in the City of Binjai. Testing the validity of the questionnaire was carried out using the Product technique Pearson moment while the reliability test is used with using the Alpha Technique Cronbach. Result: Validity test instrument against 167 question items shows that there is 126 question items were declared valid with more correlation values greater than 0.361. While the reliability test of the climate question item work and quality of work life shows Alpha value Cronbach > 0.60, then instrument the tested can be declared reliable or consistent. Conclusion: The results of the instrument test prove that the instrument has a value of validity and reliability fulfills to be used to measure the work climate questionnaire and quality of work life.