Background Although job satisfaction research has been carried out for decades, no recent
overview of job satisfaction instruments and their quality is available. Aim The aim of this …

Background—The study of occupational stress and compassion fatigue in personnel
working in animal-related occupations has gained momentum over the last decade …

Demonstrates the connection between psychological theory and application in the field of
Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology is …

Although management of drug testing programs is becoming a critical organizational issue,
no systematic conceptual framework has been applied to the study of employee reactions to …

We describe the construction of a Job in General (JIG) scale, a global scale to accompany
the facet scales of the Job Descriptive Index. We applied both traditional and item response …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating role of work design characteristics
(task, knowledge, social, and contextual characteristics) in the relationship between …

This study of 402 professional and administrative employees of a VA hospital addressed the
question of whether certain dispositional factors (Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and …

Greater understanding of the complex interrelationships among work‐relevant constructs
has increased the number of constructs on organizational surveys. Good psychometric …

A 50-item instrument that assesses employees' perceptions of work safety, the Work Safety
Scale (WSS), was constructed and validated using three independent samples. The results …

The Job Descriptive Index is a popular measure of job satisfaction with five subscales
containing 72 items. A national sample (n= 1,534) and a sample of university workers (n …