Work Design Questionnaire.

WDQ

What it measures

Work characteristics across 21 dimensions in four categories: task characteristics (autonomy, task variety, task significance, task identity, feedback from the job), knowledge characteristics (job complexity, information processing, problem solving, skill variety, specialization), social characteristics (social support, interdependence, interaction outside the organization, feedback from others) and work context (ergonomics, physical demands, work conditions, equipment use).

Length and format

77 items. 5-pt agreement (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Validated adaptations in Spanish (including the WDQ-S short version), German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Persian, Turkish and Greek among others - one of the most systematically adapted work-design measures.

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

Morgeson, F. P., & Humphrey, S. E. (2006). The Work Design Questionnaire (WDQ): Developing and validating a comprehensive measure for assessing job design and the nature of work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(6), 1321-1339.