NEW MEASURES OF JOB CONTROL, COGNITIVE DEMAND, AND PRODUCTION RESPONSIBILITY

Recent research has highlighted several job characteristics salient to employee well-being and behavior for which there are no adequate gene rally applicable measures. These include timing and method control, mo nitoring and problem-solving demand, and production responsibility. In this article, an attempt to develop measures of these constructs prov ided encouraging results. Confirmatory factor analyses applied to data from two samples of shop-floor employees showed a consistent fit to a common five-factor measurement model. Scales corresponding to each of the dimensions showed satisfactory internal and test-retest reliabili ties. As expected, the scales also discriminated between employees in different jobs and employees working with contrasting technologies.