Further evidence on some new measures of job control, cognitive demand and production responsibility

Current approaches to job design and job stress, and their application in the context of new manufacturing technologies and practices, call for new widely applicable measures of job properties. In response to this need, Jackson, Wall, Martin and Davids (1993) described the development of new scales of timing control, method control, monitoring demand, problem-solving demand and production responsibility. This article provides further evidence concerning these measures, based on the responses of nearly 1700 employees from five separate samples. The evidence includes: investigation through confirmatory factor analysis of the applicability of the underlying five-factor measurement model on two new samples; improvement of the problem-solving demand scale; a test of the replicability of the measurement model by formal factorial invariance tests across four samples; additional information on scale reliability and construct validity; and normative data for a wide range of shopfloor and related jobs.

[1]  Jim Todd,et al.  World-Class Manufacturing , 1996 .

[2]  P. Bentler,et al.  Comparative fit indexes in structural models. , 1990, Psychological bulletin.

[3]  Chris W. Clegg,et al.  Advanced manufacturing technology and work design: Towards a theoretical framework , 1990 .

[4]  H. Lindman.  Analysis of variance in complex experimental designs , 1974 .

[5]  Cary L. Cooper,et al.  Job control and worker health , 1989 .

[6]  J. Cook,et al.  Scales for the measurement of some work attitudes and aspects of psychological well‐being , 1979 .

[7]  Peter Warr,et al.  The measurement of well-being and other aspects of mental health , 1990 .

[8]  Eugene F. Stone.  The moderating effect of work-related values on the job scope-job satisfaction relationship☆☆☆ , 1976 .

[9]  P. Turnbull,et al.  The limits to‘Japanisation’—Just‐in‐Time, labour relations and the UK automotive industry , 1988 .

[10]  J. Breaugh.  The Measurement of Work Autonomy , 1985 .

[11]  Toby D. Wall,et al.  Job and work design. , 1987 .

[12]  Robert Karasek,et al.  Healthy Work : Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life , 1990 .

[13]  G. Zicklin.  Numerical Control Machining and the Issue of Deskilling , 1987 .

[14]  P. Bentler,et al.  Significance Tests and Goodness of Fit in the Analysis of Covariance Structures , 1980 .

[15]  P. Warr,et al.  Work, unemployment, and mental health , 1987 .

[16]  S. Snell,et al.  Integrated Manufacturing and Job Design: Moderating Effects of Organizational Inertia , 1991 .

[17]  Eugene F. Stone.  Job scope, job satisfaction, and the Protestant Ethic: A study of enlisted men in the U.S. Navy , 1974 .

[18]  J. H. Steiger.  Structural Model Evaluation and Modification: An Interval Estimation Approach. , 1990, Multivariate behavioral research.

[19]  C. Perrow.  A FRAMEWORK FOR THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATIONS , 1967 .

[20]  M. Browne,et al.  Alternative Ways of Assessing Model Fit , 1992 .

[21]  Jeffrey R. Edwards,et al.  Computer aided manufacturing and worker well-being: a review of research , 1989 .

[22]  James C. Anderson,et al.  STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN PRACTICE: A REVIEW AND RECOMMENDED TWO-STEP APPROACH , 1988 .

[23]  R. P. McDonald,et al.  Goodness-of-fit indexes in confirmatory factor analysis : The effect of sample size , 1988 .

[24]  Robert M. Fulmer,et al.  The limits to , 1973 .

[25]  Harvey G. Shulman,et al.  Designing the User-Friendly Robot: A Case History , 1985 .

[26]  P. Warr.  Decision latitude, job demands, and employee well-being , 1990 .

[27]  Karl G. Jöreskog,et al.  LISREL 7: A guide to the program and applications , 1988 .

[28]  J. Hackman,et al.  Employee reactions to job characteristics. , 1971 .

[29]  J. Hackman,et al.  Development of the Job Diagnostic Survey , 1975 .

[30]  Donald Gerwin,et al.  Coping with advanced manufacturing technology , 1984 .

[31]  H. P. Sims,et al.  The Measurement of Job Characteristics , 1976 .

[32]  B. Byrne,et al.  Testing for the equivalence of factor covariance and mean structures: The issue of partial measurement invariance. , 1989 .

[33]  Richard,et al.  Motivation through the Design of Work: Test of a Theory. , 1976 .

[34]  William H. Glick,et al.  The job characteristics approach to task design: A critical review. , 1981 .

[35]  Paul R. Jackson,et al.  New measures of job control, cognitive demand, and production responsibility. , 1993 .