Development and Validation of the Work Effort Scale

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Testing a Calling Model of Psychological Career Success in Australian Young Adults: A Longitudinal Study (2014, methodology): “The first was the 10-item Work Effort Scale (De Cooman et al., 2009), which taps three aspects of direction, intensity, and persistence.”
Do you get what you pay for? Sales incentives and implications for motivation and changes in turnover intention and work effort (2016, methodology): “We chose self-reported work effort as a dependent variable because it has been strongly associated with other measures of performance (De Cooman et al. 2009), and it is a more proximal outcome of employee motivation than resultsoriented measures of performance.”
Self-Regulatory Processes Mediating Between Career Calling and Perceived Employability and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adults (2015, unknown): “De Cooman et al. (2009) reported an internal reliability coefficient of .90 and a 3-week test-retest correlation of .72 in their sample of adult employees, and in support of validity, the scale demonstrated correlations in the predicted direction with self-reported performance and job satisfaction.”
How job characteristics relate to need satisfaction and autonomous motivation: implications for work effort (2013, unknown): “Work effort was measured using the 10-item Work Effort Scale (De Cooman et al., 2009).”