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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire Job Satisfaction Subscale.

MOAQ-JSS

What it measures
Overall (global) job satisfaction - an employee's overall affective/evaluative response to the job, captured by a very short subscale of the larger Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire.
Length and format
3 (job-satisfaction subscale); full MOAQ is a large modular battery. 7-pt agreement Likert (some uses 5-pt); 1 reverse-keyed item (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Widely used internationally incl. ES, ZH, KO, AR, PT and others (carried in many multi-national studies)
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
public-domain / open

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Reference
Cammann, C., Fichman, M., Jenkins, G.D., & Klesh, J.R. (1983). Assessing the attitudes and perceptions of organizational members. In S.E. Seashore et al. (Eds.), Assessing Organizational Change. Wiley.

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