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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Gallup Q12 (Gallup Workplace Audit).

Q12

What it measures
Employee engagement operationalized as 12 actionable workplace conditions (expectations, materials/equipment, opportunity to do best, recognition, someone cares, development, opinions count, mission, committed coworkers, best friend, progress discussions, learning/growth).
Length and format
12 (+ 1 overall satisfaction item, Q00). 5-pt agreement Likert (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many (Gallup administers globally in dozens of languages)
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Harter, J.K., Schmidt, F.L., et al. (2020). The Relationship Between Engagement at Work and Organizational Outcomes: 2020 Q12 Meta-Analysis (10th ed.). Gallup.

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