Development and validation of an instrument for assessing job demands arising from accelerated change: The intensification of job demands scale (IDS)

By Bettina Kubicek, M. Paškvan, Christian Korunka. 2015

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Accelerated societal and organizational changes have placed new pressures on employees. Especially, service employees are exposed to intensified workloads, planning and decision-making, and learning demands. Despite the growing attention given to this intensification of job demands, a comprehensive measure is missing. In the present study, we developed the Intensification of Job Demands Scale (IDS) and validated it in four samples (N = 1363). Confirmatory factor analyses supported the differentiation into five subscales, namely work intensification, intensified job-related planning and decision-making demands, intensified career-related planning and decision-making demands, intensified knowledge-related learning demands, and intensified skill-related learning demands. This five-factor structure holds for both the German and the English versions of the instrument. Convergent and discriminant validity tests showed that the IDS subscales are moderately related to established measures of job demands, but at most have small correlations with negative affectivity. Providing support for the incremental validity, the IDS subscales were found to add to the prediction of burnout and job satisfaction beyond established job demands. Finally, the IDS subscales helped to identify employees who experienced changes in their work situation. In sum, the results indicate that the IDS is a valid and reliable measure to assess the intensification of job demands.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In General Health Professions

1. S. Hauff
2. Katharina Klug
3. Christian Korunka
4. S. Diestel
5. Bettina Kubicek
6. Joerg Felfe
7. Roman Prem

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. S. Hauff
2. Katharina Klug
3. Christian Korunka
4. S. Diestel
5. Bettina Kubicek
6. Joerg Felfe

Citations in the corpus

• Regulatory job stressors and their within-person relationships with ego depletion: The roles of state anxiety, self-control effort, and job autonomy. (2016, methodology): “…and decision-making was assessed with three items (e.g., “During the last hour, my job required me to make decisions on the priority of tasks on my own.”) that were adapted from the job-related planning and decision-making subscale of the Intensification of Job Demands Scale (Kubicek et al., 2015).”
• High-performance work practices, employee well-being, and supportive leadership: spillover mechanisms and boundary conditions between HRM and leadership behavior (2020, background): “Although the demanding aspects of resources such as autonomy are increasingly recognized (Kubicek et al., 2015), potential demands resulting from HPWPs such as workload and complexity can also have a positive, challenging connotation.”