Job Embeddedness Scale.

JE

What it measures

Job embeddedness - the web of forces keeping people in jobs, across Fit, Links, and Sacrifice, each split into on-the-job (organization) and off-the-job (community) facets (six-cell composite). Predicts staying/retention beyond satisfaction and commitment.

Length and format

~40 (original composite); 7 (global/reflective measure, Crossley et al. 2007). mixed (Likert agreement + factual links counts in the composite); 5-pt Likert in the global version (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many incl. ZH, KO, ES, AR, PT and others

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

open with attribution

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Reference

Mitchell, T.R., Holtom, B.C., Lee, T.W., Sablynski, C.J., & Erez, M. (2001). Why people stay: Using job embeddedness to predict voluntary turnover. Academy of Management Journal, 44(6), 1102-1121.