Using a single-item approach to measure facet job satisfaction

By Mark S. Nagy. 2002

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Trust in the employer: the role of high-involvement work practices and procedural justice in European organizations (2011, methodology): “This approach of asking respondents to provide an overall judgement in a single item has also been used extensively in research on job satisfaction (e.g. Wanous, Reichers and Hudy 1997; Nagy 2002) and happiness (e.”
When Does Ethical Leadership Affect Workplace Incivility?: The Moderating Role of Follower Personality (2014, background): “Although such job satisfaction measures are conventionally avoided, Wanous, Reichers, and Hudy (1997: 250) maintain that “single-item measures are more robust than the scale measures of overall job satisfaction” (see also Nagy, 2002; Scarpello & Hayton, 2001).”
Does Leadership Style Make a Difference? Linking HRM, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Performance (2014, background): “Although there is some disagreement regarding how to measure job satisfaction, previous research shows that job satisfaction can reliably be measured using only one item (Nagy, 2002; Wanous, Reichers, & Hudy, 1997).”
Testing a Model of Officer Intentions to Quit (2014, background): “Second, in circumstances where there is high face validity of the item and the concept that is under investigation is well-known by participants (e.g., job satisfaction), the use of a single-item measure provides an acceptable and reliable representation of the given construct (Nagy, 2002).”
On the value relevance of customer satisfaction. Multiple drivers and multiple markets (2012, neutral): “This procedure ensures that in the respondents’ evaluation of the overall vehicle quality, they simultaneously consider all those aspects that they find important (e.g., Nagy 2002; Sarstedt and Wilczynski 2009).”
One reputation or many?: Comparing stakeholders' perceptions of corporate reputation (2007, background): “Concerning perceptual phenomena, this is a common outcome that has also been observed for satisfaction and other hypothetical constructs ( Nagy, 2002”
Testing a Multidimensional Theory of Person-Environment Fit (2010, methodology): “…the recommendations of Billsberry et al. (2005), Billsberry et al. (2008) and, Talbot and Billsberry (2007) and has the benefit of capturing the essence of the construct which is particularly helpful when the precise construction of the construct is unknown (Nagy, 2002; cf. Churchill, 1979).”
The single-item need to belong scale. (2013, methodology): “…measures, substanti al evidence suggests that measuring a construct with a single item can be just as valid and reliable as using longer scales (Bergkvist & Rossiter, 2007; Dollinger & Malmquist, 2009; Gardner, Cummin gs, Dunham, & Pierce, 1998; Nagy, 2002; Wanous, Reichers, & Hudy, 1997 ).”
Does it matter where your manager works? Comparing managerial work mode (traditional, telework, virtual) across subordinate work experiences and outcomes (2011, methodology): “Given the length of the survey a single-item measure was used, considering that single-item measures have been found to possess adequate reliability (Nagy, 2002; Wanous and Hudy, 2001; Wanous et al., 1997), and such measures possess higher face validity and encourage greater participation than…”
Understanding the relationship between experiencing workplace cyberbullying, employee mental strain and job satisfaction: a dysempowerment approach (2017, background): “Scarpello and Campbell (1983) and Nagy (2002) have all shown that single item job satisfaction measures compare favourably to scale-based measures.”
The Happy-Productive Worker Thesis Revisited (2008, background): “Others have discussed the advantages of single item measures in organizational research, particularly when constructs are difficult to define objectively but are well understood by informants (e.g., Eaton 2003; Nagy 2002; Rossiter and Bergkvist 2007).”
Consumption attitudes and adoption of new consumer products: a contingency approach (2008, background): “Although recent measurement studies suggested that single-item measures with face validity could judge favorably against multiple-item measures (Nagy, 2002; Wanous et al., 1997), future research should attempt to use primary data collection methods and established multi-item measures so that sound…”