This week, you complete Part 1 of the Methods section for your Final Project. This Methods section will serve as a road map for measuring job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and job involvement.
In your role as a consultant for Walden Sports, it is important to understand why certain instruments are more effective than others. (Be sure to follow APA style and refer to the Final Project Template located in this week's Learning Resources.)
Walden Sports Inc. is a fictional outdoor and travel goods company. Through the media in this course, you meet the CEO and employees.
You take on the role of consultant to Walden Sports; in this role, you are tasked with measuring the job attitudes of employees of this fictional company and with creating a consulting report as your Final Project, which includes analysis of a diagnostic job attitudes survey instrument as well as recommendations to address problems with employee attitudes.
See the Final Project Proposal Template located in this week's Learning Resources for detailed instructions for your Final Project.
Your Final Project must include the following elements:
• Section 1: Title Page, Executive Summary, and Introduction
• Section 2: Identification of a Diagnostic Job Attitudes Survey Instrument
• Section 3: Methods
• Section 4: Results
• Section 5: Recommendations to Walden Sports Inc. (2-4 pages)
• Section 6: References in APA style (1-2 pages)
The Assignment (7 pages)
• Complete Part 1 of the Methods Section of your Final Project.
• Summarize the job attitudes that need to be measured in the organization.
• Summarize the three instruments you might use to measure job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and job involvement in the organization.
• Justify your use of these instruments.
• Summarize the psychometric properties of the instruments.
• Summarize the items and scoring method from each instrument you might use as part of your diagnostic survey.
References:
• Brooke, P. P., Russell, D. W., & Price, J. L. (1988). Discriminant validation of measures of job satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 73(2), 139-145.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Brown, S. P. (1996). A meta-analysis and review of organizational research on job involvement. Psychological Bulletin, 120(2), 235-255.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Kanungo, R. N. (1982). Measurement of job and work involvement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 67(3), 341-349.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Kirby, S. L., & Richard, O. C. (2000). Impact of marketing work-place diversity on employee job involvement and organizational commitment. Journal of Social Psychology, 140(3), 367-377.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Knoop, R. (1995). Relationships among job involvement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment for nurses. Journal of Psychology, 129(6), 643.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Lodahl, T. M., &Kejner, M. (1965). The definition and measurement of job involvement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 49(1), 24-33.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Morrow, P. C. (1983). Concept redundancy in organizational research: The case of work commitment. Academy of Management
Review, 8(3), 486-500.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Rabinowitz, S., & Hall, D. T. (1977). Organizational research on job involvement. Psychological Bulletin, 84(2), 265-288.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Saal, F. E. (1978). Job involvement: A multivariate approach. Journal of Applied Psychology, 63(1), 53-61.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Stoner, J. S., & Gallagher, V. C. (2010). Who cares? The role of job involvement in psychological contract violation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(6), 1490-1514.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Zatz, D. (1996). Job involvement and identity. Retrieved from
http://www.toolpack.info/articles/job-involvement.html
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